Actually he called James "that right strawey epistle" but he did not argue that they should be stricken from the canon of scripture itself. I personally do not believe James was written by an apostle. As to Luther, all you have to do is READ HIS WORKS and you can see that he is crass, earthy, plainspoken and blunt, saying many times what you KNOW that if you sat him down and cooled him off, he would phrase more exactly. I believe his comments on James Hebrews and Revelation (which he included in his translation of the Bible, by the way), should be viewed in this light.
He certainly never hurled James into the Elbe river as unbiblical, as he did sections of the apocrypha.
“I believe his comments on James Hebrews and Revelation (which he included in his translation of the Bible, by the way), should be viewed in this light.”
I’ll take that as an admission.
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