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Gavin Ortlund on Canon of the Old Testament

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

66 books — Apocrypha useful but not Scripture

THE POSITION

66 books, argued in direct engagement with Catholic and Orthodox claims.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, from a machine transcript of a solo Truth Unites episode, and copyright is not the reason the rest have none: this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright. An earlier pass is recorded under research/ortlund — the transcript panel would not open on either Truth Unites video tried, and both books are paywalled. That is an access problem rather than a permission problem, and it produced one honest finding: the original-sin cell is a null recorded as searched and not located, with its own reason. The other eight have had no pass at all.

13 OTHERS HOLD THIS

AthanasiusCalvinJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithJosh HowertonSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurJohn OwenJustin PetersR.C. SproulWestminster ConfessionZwingli
Wider canon — deuterocanonical books includedAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE
Predates or straddles the settled disputeCHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS
See all 24 figures on canon of the old testament →

ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Pastor and author behind Truth Unites. Works on retrieving the church fathers for Protestants and on charitable engagement with Catholic and Orthodox claims.

1 OF 10 POSITIONS QUOTED
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"Gavin Ortlund on Canon of the Old Testament", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/ortlund/ot-canon (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/ortlund/ot-canon).

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