baptizing.

Yeah, he's, oh, this is a question.

Is the canon of scripture open?

No, I don't think the canon is open.

It was closed, you could say, in a loose sense, in terms of the sixth ecumenical council,

the seventh ecumenical council, and its affirmations trollo and carthage but in the orthodox

church there's flexibility in the sense of like tradition in the you know proto

evangelium of james or tradition in the book of enoch or you know it's not the way that a protestant

thinks of the canon being closed like there's nothing else that's,

quote, tradition or acceptable, because the early churches, even pretty late in the game,

had minor variations in what they accepted in terms of the Old and New Testament.

So not in the way that are Protestant things,

but in the Orthodox sense, yes, there's a loose,

in other words, even for the few books that were somewhat disputed like the letters

of Clement,

which some church fathers thought is part of the New Testament,

like,

we're not going to say that you're you know if you had a tradition in your in your church like that that you included oh you're

outside the church because i mean those books are still part of the orthodox tradition

clements a you know church father and a saint saint, Clement of Rome, but we don't

include in our New Testament. And so in that sense, there's flexibility, but I wouldn't

call that an open canon as if there would be any new books. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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