[JCBreckenridge]

Why would I be offended? That is what I am - I have a duty to be obedient to Papa Benedict.

“The point being is that Luther was not/is not infallible. We don’t claim that.”

You claim the bible is inerrant and at the same time use Luther’s canon. Ergo, you are followers of Luther and his teachings.

[redgolum]

Traditionally, in North America (an important caveat), “Lutheran” means those synods who came from the original Reformation that hold as their base teachings the Book of Concord and the Augsburg Confession.

In Germany and other Baltic states, those synods are often called “Evangelical”. They do not often call themselves Lutheran. In some places that is a slur on the level of “Papist”, and “Fisheater”. In most of North America (NA), that isn't the case.

JCB, I suggest you research the Lutheran (using the NA term) canon pre WWI. My great uncle's Bible has the same books you do included in the Apocrypha. In confirmation, we got most of the books as separate handouts (excluding Tobit, if I remember right. Didn't have time for it).

And saying you follow BXVI to some here will get screams. During WWI, Wilson forcibly changed the Lutheran canon and liturgy to match that of the Episcopal churches.