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I've caught several Protestants in my comment sections using ChatGPT for their responses (including ‪@RuslanKD‬). Just a note: if I catch you doing that, you'll be hidden from my channel. Permanently.

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‪@RuslanKD‬'s comment under my Ehrman video keeps getting edited, so let me put the receipts somewhere they can't be revised.

1. “Bart said 'basically right.'" Ehrman's full sentence: the "basic picture" is right, "so many of the details are wrong." Twenty seconds later, on the actual claim (a settled canon by the end of the second century): "That's absolutely false." Quoting the first two words and skipping the verdict is the exact editing move my video was about. Thanks for the live demonstration.

2. Origen's canon was NOT 27 books. That's the key point. Origen never gives us our 27-book list. As Ehrman said, our first 27-book list is Athanasius’s, in AD 367. The tidy "Origen: 27, doubts about only 4" line comes from modern apologetics charts, not scholarship. Even if Origen personally accepted all 27, his Scripture didn't STOP at 27. Origen calls the Shepherd of Hermas "a scripture that seems to me very useful and, in my opinion, divinely inspired" (Origen, Commentary to the Epistle to the Romans, Book X, section 31, transl. The Fathers of the Church, vol. 104 (Catholic University Press, 2002), 296.). Metzger says Origen may have used the Didache "as Scripture" as well, and that Hermas "was used as Scripture by Irenaeus, Tertullian... Clement of Alexandria, and Origen" (Canon of the New Testament, pp. 187–188). And Origen himself reports that 2 Peter was "doubted" and that "not all" accepted 2 and 3 John (in Eusebius, Church History 6.25). So your best third-century witness had a BIGGER canon than yours and fewer certainties. He's my evidence, not yours.

3. Your "functional canon of 185" omits 5 of the NT books and includes the Apocalypse of Peter and the Wisdom of Solomon. You cannot claim the Muratorian fragment as "our functional canon" while rejecting books that are on it. A list with different contents isn't your canon arriving early. It's a different canon.

4. This is nothing like "word for word vs. virtually word for word." On Isaiah, the wording was slightly imperfect but Wes got the gist right because it was a remarkably stable text. That's why I granted it, on camera, in the video. On the canon, Wes’s substance is what's false: no “unanimity,” no other "lists" (one anonymous fragment), wrong contents, wrong date, and seven disputed books, a quarter of your New Testament, still disputed in the fourth century while Hermas, 1 Clement, and Barnabas floated into some canons. The oldest complete New Testament on earth, Codex Sinaiticus (~350 AD), physically binds Barnabas and the Shepherd after Revelation. Your guy Origen would approve of part of that. Whose functional canon is that?

5. “The vast majority was around before 250, outside the fuzzy edges." A core plus disputed edges is a canon that ISN'T settled. That's why it took Athanasius's letter (367), the councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397, 419), Augustine, and papal confirmation (Damasus, Innocent I, Gelasius) to close the question. Gravity gives every observer the same answer; nobody ever called a council about it. Christians gave different answers on the canon for three hundred years until *authority* was invoked to settle disputes, especially in the Western church whose canon tradition you take for granted. Discoveries converge on their own. This one had to be judged, and you accept the judges' verdict on the canon while calling everything else they taught a corruption.

Every source above, and dozens more, is in the Ecclesia Antiqua essay I have linked every single time this has come up. At this point you've edited your comment more times than you've opened that link.

Essay, full video, and the two-hour stream are pinned below.

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“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”
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~Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭43‬-‭44‬

Thanks be to God.

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This is the “Saio delle Stimmate,” the habit Padre Pio wore on September 20, 1918 when he received the stigmata in the choir of the old church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in San Giovanni Rotondo.

Padre Pio, pray for us.

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Safe to say, ‪@MikeWinger‬ is not a fan of the papacy. He thinks he can refute it using our own sources. In my latest video, Erick Ybarra joins to explain why Winger isn't just wrong about the papacy, he's uninformed on the issues.

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Btw, I turned on community posting! Anyone subscribed longer than a week can now make your own post on our channel.

Be nice :)

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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.

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Quick update. I published the Wes Huff video early on account of Wes publicly accusing me on X of click bait. It’s now public and available for everyone.

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