If manuscripts, Church Fathers, apostolic authorship, and the inward witness of the Spirit cannot settle the canon of Scripture, what can? This second part argues from the nature of inspiration that the only criterion both sufficient and universal is divine revelation handed down in Sacred Tradition and made known to all the faithful by the Magisterium, and it answers the claim that Protestants stand where the Jews stood with the Old Testament, along with three other objections. Then we examine the Protestant alternatives in detail: Calvin’s self-authenticating Scripture and the Westminster Confession, the consensus of Christians, the historical testimony of the early Church, and the argument from 2 Timothy 3:16.
Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Recap of Part 1
04:17 Why the Criterion Must Be Divine Revelation
08:49 The Magisterium as the Proximate Rule
10:32 Objection: The Canon Before Trent
13:16 Objection: The Church’s Ministerial Authority
16:00 Objection: The Old Testament Canon
18:38 Is Scripture Self-Authenticating?
28:01 Luther, Consensus, and the Sensus Fidelium
34:47 The Historical Argument
43:26 Is the Canon Implicit in 2 Timothy 3:16?
50:17 Conclusion
