What is normative for doctrine? What's part of the canon? Yeah.

yeah and and like all these things in the canon it comes from its own texts right uh galatians 6 philippians 3 2nd corinthians 10 even the septuagint in psalm 19 talks about the the rule the norm all who walk by this rule right all who live in accordance with this canon paul will say right um Yeah, it's not external, right? It's an internal verification of its own authenticity.

I think that one of the most helpful places that I begin, especially, it's not just Roman Catholics, it's Lutherans who, you know, get their YouTube algorithm screwed up and watch this stuff.

And they start questioning, they start like struggling with sola scriptura and what does that mean? And I, in some ways, like the Opinio Leges wants an infallible magisterium to tell you what the Bible means, right? And so the place I go, especially with my catechumens, but those who have been confirmed and just struggling with this, the preface to the epitome of the formula of Concord, it says it's the summary content rule and norm.

There's the canon, right? According to which all teachings should be judged and all the Aronas teachings that have occurred should be decided and explained in a Christian way.

And we believe, teach and confess, that the only rule and norm according to which all teachings, together with all teachers, should be evaluated and judged, prophetic and apostolic scriptures of the Old and New Testament.

Like what would you, what would you say to them? Where would you direct them? Stuff like that.

that's kind of how i started because that's that's what launched me into the topic you know more in depth in the first place um i direct them to chemnitz the stuff that we've read so far consulate trent responses to the uh anathematizing of of luther and jerome and augustine athanasius and so forth but um Yeah, I mean, Luther's on the councils in the church also has some good stuff with the recognition that like your supposed infallible magisterium, right, for the papacy has erred, right? It's not consistent from one pope to the next, which isn't just a modern thing that goes all the way back.