Canon of Scripture

Protestant Says the Apostles Weren’t Catholic—Then Sam Shamoun Shows Him THIS – More Sam Shamoun

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Were Jesus and the apostles Catholic? In this powerful confrontation, a Protestant challenges Sam Shamoun on Catholicism, the Roman Empire, Church tradition, the Bible, confession, the Rosary, the Eucharist, and whether the early Christians actually identified themselves as Catholic. Sam Shamoun begins by challenging the assumption that the Catholic Church came from the Roman Empire.

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He Asked How Satan Fell—Then Discovered His Bible Was Missing Books | Sam Shamoun Answers

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Video descriptionA Christian caller asks when Satan fell and whether the war in heaven happened before Genesis 1:2. But as the biblical passages are examined, the conversation takes an unexpected turn. Do Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14 explicitly identify Satan? Was “Lucifer” really his personal name? Does Revelation 12 place the heavenly battle before creation—or

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Why do Catholics Have 73 Books in the Bible and Protestants 66? | Sam Shamoun

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Why do Catholic Bibles have 73 books while Protestant Bibles contain only 66—and who removed the seven Deuterocanonical books? In this detailed biblical and historical discussion, Sam Shamoun explains the origins of the Catholic Bible canon, the Protestant Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Deuterocanonical books. He examines how the early Church recognized the canon of

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Protestant ATTACKS Catholicism… Then ONE Question DESTROYED His Entire Argument | Sam Shamoun

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How do we know the Bible is inspired—and who gave Protestants the authority to interpret Scripture apart from the historic Church? In this powerful dialogue, Sam Shamoun challenges a non-denominational Christian who questions whether Catholic doctrine can truly claim continuity with the apostles Peter and Paul. Sam Shamoun exposes the assumption behind the argument: before

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No Original Copies of the Bible—Does Sola Scriptura Collapse? | Sam Shamoun

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Video Description:No original manuscripts of the Bible survive—and the handwritten copies we possess contain textual variants. Does this destroy Christianity, or does it expose a fatal problem specifically for sola scriptura? Sam Shamoun explains why Christianity rests first upon the historical Jesus Christ and His Resurrection—not upon possessing the original biblical autographs. He examines biblical

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Answering Wes Huff: The Catholic Canon Was Settled in 1442, Not 1545 | A Catholic Take – Joe McClane

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Wes Huff says there was no agreed-upon Catholic Bible before the Council of Trent. The Council of Florence listed the books in 1442 — 103 years earlier. Segment one is a direct answer to Huff’s claim about the canon of Scripture. Segment two: Fr. Gerald Murray joins us on what “synodality” is actually selling.

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Wes Huff, Who Gave You the New Testament? The Protestant Dilemma | Sam Shamoun Answers

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Video Description:Who gave Wes Huff—and every other Protestant—the 27-book New Testament? Martin Luther did not treat every New Testament book equally. He questioned or downgraded Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation, placing them after what he called the “true and certain chief books” of the New Testament. That creates a devastating authority problem: If Luther could

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This Simple Question DESTROYS Sola Scriptura—Here’s Why | Sam Shamoun

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Can Sola Scriptura explain how Christians know which writings belong in the Bible? In this powerful teaching, Sam Shamoun examines the canon of Scripture and exposes the fundamental problem facing the Protestant doctrine that Scripture alone is the Church’s only infallible rule of faith. If the Bible does not contain an inspired list of its

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CRAIG’S HERESIES, OPEN FORUM: QURAN DILEMMA & BRING YOUR QUESTIONS/OBJECTIONS – SHAMOUNIAN

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I open the floor for folks to bring their questions/objections on the Bible, church history, sola fide, sola scriptura, etc. and I call out Muslims to refute the Quranic Dilemma.

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Trent, Canon, Papias & Open Forum: Bring Your Challenges – SHAMOUNIAN

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I begin by making some observations concerning Trent’s pronouncements on the canon, and also mention Papias view of Gospel authorship. I then open up streamyard for folks to ask their questions and to challenge others on their views, especially in respect to the Quran’s Dilemma.

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Sam Shamoun Debates a Seventh-day Adventist on Jesus Being Archangel Michael – More Sam Shamoun

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Is Jesus Christ actually Michael the Archangel—and does 1 Thessalonians 4:16 prove it? In this intense biblical debate, Sam Shamoun engages a Trinitarian Seventh-day Adventist who believes that Jesus is Almighty God and that Michael is another name or title for Christ. The discussion examines whether “the voice of the archangel” identifies Jesus as Michael

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Open Forum on the Trinity & Wes Huff’s Protestant Dilemma Pt. 5: Luther, Eusebius, Papias, Justin – SHAMOUNIAN

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I arrive at the finale in my series demonstrating that the Achilles’ Heel of the Protestant Dilemma in respect to Sola Scriptura is the Canon issue. I also open streamyard for questions about the Trinity in the Bible and Church history..

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The REAL Reason Why the Book of Enoch Is Not in the Bible | Sam Shamoun

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Why is the Book of Enoch not in the Bible—and could the biblical Enoch really have revealed the mysteries of heaven? In this powerful teaching, Sam Shamoun examines the Book of Enoch, the Ethiopian Bible, and the words of Jesus Christ in John 3:10–13 to explain why 1 Enoch should not be accepted as inspired

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Bishop Sheen: Why the Jews MISSED Their Messiah – And What It Means for You – Sign Of The Cross

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The Jews expected a political liberator. They received a spiritual Messiah. And they missed Him. Bishop Fulton Sheen explains that the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old, and that the failure to recognize Christ was not a failure of prophecy, but of expectation. God’s plan unfolds progressively throughout history, culminating in Jesus Christ.

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Former Protestant Pastor Debunks Sola Scriptura

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Does the Bible alone provide the full truth? Keith Nester explains why he moved away from Sola Scriptura to Catholicism. Former Protestant pastor Keith Nester joins the channel to discuss the intellectual and spiritual transition that led him to embrace the Catholic Church. We examine the specific arguments surrounding Sola Scriptura and how those theological

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Protestant Scholars Just Exposed Wes Huff’s Sola Scriptura Canon Problem | Sam Shamoun Answers  

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Video Description:Wes Huff argues that tradition has a voice and a vote, but Scripture possesses the final veto—and that Scripture is sufficient. But before Scripture can exercise that veto, who identifies which writings actually belong to Scripture? In this presentation, Sam Shamoun places Wes Huff’s position alongside conclusions reached by other Protestant and evangelical scholars

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The Bible’s Preservation & Wes Huff’s Canon Dilemma Pt. 2: The Achilles’ Heel of Protestantism – SHAMOUNIAN

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I start off with more clips from Dr. Daniel Wallace on the massive amount of manuscript evidence and church writers’ citations for the preservation of the Holy Bible. I then continue unpacking the Canon Dilemma which is the destruction of Sola Scriptura. I will be paying clips from NT historian and a leading scholar on

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“Bye-Bye, Wes Huff”—Then Exposes the Protestant Bible Canon Dilemma | Sam Shamoun Answers

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Video description:How can the Bible be the sole infallible authority when the Bible never provides its own inspired table of contents? In this powerful presentation, Sam Shamoun confronts Wes Huff and exposes what may be Protestantism’s greatest weakness: the Bible canon. We examine the Muratorian Fragment, disputed New Testament books, apostolic authority, and the historical

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Wes Huff’s Protestant Dilemma Just Got WORSE—Which Bible Is Inspired? | Sam Shamoun

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Video description:Wes Huff’s Protestant dilemma is even greater than the question of which books belong in the Bible. Sola Scriptura also requires the Protestant to identify which textual form—and which individual words and verses—were inspired by God. Is Mark 16:9–20 original Scripture? What about 1 John 5:7, John 5:4 and Acts 8:37? Why do some

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Sam Shamoun EXPOSES The Protestant Dilemma – More Sam Shamoun

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Can Scripture alone establish the Protestant Bible—and how can Protestants know which books truly belong in the canon? In this powerful response, Sam Shamoun exposes the Protestant dilemma behind appeals to 2 Timothy 3:16, sola Scriptura, and the authority of the Bible. Before anyone can claim that “all Scripture is inspired by God,” they must

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Bart Ehrman Just Confirmed the Protestant Dilemma—Wes Huff Was Wrong | Sam Shamoun Answers

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Video descriptionDid 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: Sam Shamoun explains why these

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The ONE Question Protestants CANNOT Answer: Who Gave You the Bible? | Sam Shamoun

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Video descriptionWho gave Protestants the Bible—and by what authority did they determine which books belong in it? Every Protestant accepts a defined collection of inspired books, yet the Bible contains no inspired table of contents. So who identified the canon, preserved the Scriptures, and handed them down to the Christian world? In this powerful exchange,

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Luther, Henry VIII, & the Rabbis: How Private Judgment Fractured Christendom – Christ The King

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Luther built his German Bible on the Jewish Rabbis’ own Hebrew canon. Henry VIII sent an envoy to Venice to recruit actual Jewish Rabbis to rule on his divorce. Two ruptures, one pattern: both went to the Synagogue; neither man submitted to that authority either — only to his own private judgment. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00

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Best of Jesse Romero: Catholic Church: Christ’s Original vs Man-Made Divisions – Jesse Romero

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The Best of The Jesse Romero Show — 5 of Jesse’s most powerful teachings from the archive, together in one episode. In this episode: 0:34 Denominations Are Xerox CopiesJesse explains that ‘denomination’ is not biblical, defines it from the dictionary, and likens Protestant churches to successive Xerox copies that lose clarity the further they stray

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Wes Huff Doesn’t Know the Canon of Scripture—His Arguments Collapse | Sam Shamoun

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Video DescriptionWes Huff is widely respected for his work on New Testament manuscripts and for defending Christianity against skeptics. But when he speaks about the canon of Scripture, the Septuagint, Josephus, Philo, Tobit, Maccabees, and the deuterocanonical books, do his arguments actually hold up? In this video, we examine the historical and manuscript evidence behind

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Did Catholics Add Books to the Bible… or Did Protestants Remove Them? | Sam Shamoun

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What is the real biblical canon—66 books or 73 books? Did Catholics add books to the Bible, or did Protestants remove books from the Bible? In this important discussion, Sam Shamoun answers a Protestant brother’s questions about the Catholic canon, the Orthodox canon, the Septuagint, the Deuterocanonical books, and why Christians historically received books like

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The Protestant Canon: What They Aren’t Telling You!

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Apocrypha Apocalypse Protestant Confessions: Zwingli’s Sixty-Seven Articles (1523); Ten Conclusions (1528); Tetrapolitan Confession (1530); Augsburg Confession (1530); First Confession of Basel (1534); Summaire (1529); Gallic Confession (1559); Belgic Confession (1561/1562);

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The Dead Sea Scrolls Expose the Fatal Problem With Sola Scriptura | Sam Shamoun Answers

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VIDEO DESCRIPTIONThe Dead Sea Scrolls created a serious problem for the modern Protestant understanding of sola scriptura. Many Christians assume that the biblical community possessed one uniform version of every Old Testament book and that textual criticism can simply reconstruct the exact wording of the original manuscript. But the manuscript evidence tells a more complicated

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Every Catholic Needs to Know This About the Bible

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📖 What is Sacred Scripture? The Holy Bible is not merely a collection of ancient religious writings. According to the perennial teaching of the Catholic Church, Sacred Scripture is the inspired written Word of God, written by human authors under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. God Himself is the principal Author, and everything He

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The Bible Came from the Catholic Church, Part 1: Old Testament Canon (Dr. Matthew Thomas) | Ep. 73 Eternal Christendom (with Joshua Charles)

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In this episode, we welcome biblical scholar and protestant convert Dr. Matthew Thomas to discuss the essential role of the Catholic Church in compiling the canon of Scripture, primarily the Old Testament. Dr. Thomas wrote the fantastic introductory essay on the canon of Scripture in the recently published Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New

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The Apocrypha in the New Testament: Evidence You Haven’t Seen – Catholic Bible Highlights

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Protestants often say Jesus and the apostles never quoted the Apocrypha — so Catholics shouldn’t accept those seven extra books. In this episode of Catholic Bible Highlights, Kenny Burchard opens both a 66-book Protestant Bible and a 73-book Catholic Bible and walks through more than a dozen direct connections between the Deuterocanonical books and the

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