Any point in studying/reading apocryphic texts?

All truth is from God, I'm sure you can glean some wisdom from them.

This thread isn’t about the deuterocanon. It’s abour books like Enoch or the Apocalypse of Peter

The Protoevangelium of James has some heresy in it, but a lot of the historical stuff about the birth of Mary is considered true and celebrated by the church. Might be a worth a look into

I read some of these, but many can't even be mistaken for scripture. They're just good insights into how the ancient Jewish or Christian world thought in some areas. I find it refreshing at best, to get out of my current paradigm of thinking.. sometimes it helps to step outside of the box to see how things were taught.

One of the main reasons he got rid of the deuterocanonical books was because they only available in Greek (the language of the entire NT) and not Hebrew. And then some of them were found in Hebrew in the Dead Sea scrolls, showing what an idiot he was to think he knew better.

Can you expound on this, user?

No he was actually following the opinion of one of the early Christian writers and not all of the texts have been found in Hebrew and that still doesn't prove their authenticity. That said he considered them worthy of reading and kept it in his translation and is included in some Lutheran lectionaries.

oh gee, what a nice guy

would be terrible if it turned out it was, in fact, divine scripture and he reduced holy writings to cute little stories that may or may not be included in his own personal scriptural anthologies

Was still more honest than you disingenuous calumniators.

you should actually read Luther, he does a terrible job at actually explicating his theology. he's very well-known for having a strong rhetorical approach in lieu of a coherent approach to the faith.

it's also amusing to watch Lutherans try to actually defend Luther when he was very bad at arguments, the Vatican actually did respond to most, if not all the points he made in the 95 theses, and all he did was flip out in response

oh, and as E. Michael Jones pointed out, modern Lutherans always have to tip-toe around things Luther actually said, for instance, advocating the murder of Jews.