Frank Turek vs Frank Turek

Frank Turek

The 27 books of the New Testament didn't need specification of the Church to be and to be validly recognised as the Word of God.

Also Frank Turek

The canon of the OT was pretty much agreed on up to the Council of Trent, because there was never an ecumenical council that added the apocrypha.

So, Church Father after Church Father, local councils that have the correct 27 NT books, nothing like that recognising 45~46 OT books changes that the inspired OT was 39 books, according to the private opinion of St. Jerome and a local council that omitted Apocalypse from their 26 book NT canon (Laodicaea).

If Church recognition in a generalised way is enough to recognise the precise 27 books of the NT, it is also enough in a generalised way to recognise the full Catholic OT.

If the full Catholic OT would have needed an Ecumenical council, well, that means noone had the NT canon prior to Trent and perhaps Florence before that.

The position is absurd. Councils are there to confirm Tradition, not to create it.

If Frank Turek genuinely believes that Trent (or Florence before that) created a Tradition of 73 books, sorry, he doesn't know history./HGL