That which is excluded from a religious text is more important than that which is included. We can at least agree that this is true for Christianity, since any missionary would rather give out a text that only contains the Gospel of John rather than a text that contains all of the gospels, including the ones that were deemed heretical.
Since Protestants disavow the Apocrypha, we can conclude that their Bible was not finished until the Apocrypha was officially removed.
So we're left wondering a few things. What was the Holy Spirit doing for over a thousand years while every copy of the Bible contained the Apocrypha? If the Holy Spirit divinely inspired the removal of the Apocrypha, then he did so through Martin Luther. Why, then, did Martin Luther leave the Apocrypha in the Bible? He reorganized the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament and put them at the end, renaming them as "Apocrypha." Why not remove them if he's divinely inspired? The Apocrypha weren't officially removed from Protestant Bibles until centuries later. Further, if Martin Luther was divinely inspired, why did he also doubt the authenticity of Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation?
I understand that there is the theme of God using flawed vessels to accomplish his will, such as Moses and Gideon. But don't they have to actually get the job done? Martin Luther didn't get the job done, and it's difficult to accept that his opinions on what should or shouldn't be canon were divinely inspired due to his views of the aforementioned New Testament books. And even if we were to accept that Martin Luther was divinely inspired, the question still stands: what was the Holy Spirit doing for over a thousand years? "Jesus didn't quote the Apocrypha" or "the Jews rejected the Apocrypha" are off topic as they don't address the issues above.
Since Protestants disavow the Apocrypha, we can conclude that their Bible was not finished until the Apocrypha was officially removed.
So we're left wondering a few things. What was the Holy Spirit doing for over a thousand years while every copy of the Bible contained the Apocrypha? If the Holy Spirit divinely inspired the removal of the Apocrypha, then he did so through Martin Luther. Why, then, did Martin Luther leave the Apocrypha in the Bible? He reorganized the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament and put them at the end, renaming them as "Apocrypha." Why not remove them if he's divinely inspired? The Apocrypha weren't officially removed from Protestant Bibles until centuries later. Further, if Martin Luther was divinely inspired, why did he also doubt the authenticity of Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation?
I understand that there is the theme of God using flawed vessels to accomplish his will, such as Moses and Gideon. But don't they have to actually get the job done? Martin Luther didn't get the job done, and it's difficult to accept that his opinions on what should or shouldn't be canon were divinely inspired due to his views of the aforementioned New Testament books. And even if we were to accept that Martin Luther was divinely inspired, the question still stands: what was the Holy Spirit doing for over a thousand years? "Jesus didn't quote the Apocrypha" or "the Jews rejected the Apocrypha" are off topic as they don't address the issues above.