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It IS part of our Book. Luther did not pull the remains that he personally was willing to accept out of thin air nearly fifteen hundred years after Christ's crucifixion and rsurrection. More likely than not, Luither had access to the relatively scarce (in the very early days of rare printing presses) and incredibly valuable Bibles (the full version whether hand-copied or printed on Mr. Gutenberg's invention) by virtue of having access to Augustinian Catholic institutions that were in possession of copies.

Get over myself????? Why would I have to? I am merely posting history in this instance. I do thank God that those who are not of the Catholic Faith (often, sadly, but understandably refugees) have found many other denominational and non-denominational venues wherein they may study a substantial portion of God's written Word and wherein their witness (often shored up only by the sanctifying grace that they receive through their respective baptisms and such sanctifying grace as God may choose to grant them because of their prayer life but bereft of the sanctifying graces that flow from those sacraments rejected by the "reformed" such as the receipt of the Holy Eucharist and the sacramental confession of one's sins and the performance of the requisite penances imposed as atonement for sins sacramentally forgiven.

One is inclined to ponder the life and witness of a saintly Lutheran pastor Richard Wurmbrand who suffered for Christ under Nazis and Communists in his native Romania and made an heroic witness of his passionate love for Jesus Christ or the Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer, martyred at the hands of the Nazis in World War II, or I think of my mother's best friend, an old school Methodist, who was the best Christian I ever hope to know, who spent her last twenty years without a Methodist Church within her area in Connecticut where she could hear the Scriptures faithfully preached so she spent her time with Scripture itself.