Video description
Did the early Church unanimously recognize 24 of the 27 New Testament books by the second century?
Wes Huff presented that picture during his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience—but Bart Ehrman says crucial details were wrong and calls the claim of early unanimity “absolutely false.”
Ehrman explains that:
- The Muratorian Fragment contains 22 books from our present New Testament—not 24.
- It also includes the Apocalypse of Peter and the Wisdom of Solomon.
- The first surviving exact list of our 27 New Testament books appears in Athanasius’s Festal Letter in AD 367.
- Heated debates about the canon continued for centuries.
Sam Shamoun explains why these historical facts expose the Protestant dilemma: If Scripture is the only infallible authority, how can Protestants know with absolute certainty which books constitute Scripture?
Bart Ehrman is not endorsing Catholicism or an apostolic Church. This video examines the implications of his historical criticism for Protestant claims about the canon.
