They want to hate Luther and will find any excuse to do so, even if they have to make something up.
You’ve shown them the facts, time and again, and still, there are some who continue to recite the same old mantras about Luther and the Apocrypha.
All the facts in the world will not convince someone whose mind is made up and will not believe.
Thanks for trying, though. Those kinds of inaccurate statements need to be exposed and corrected.
The view is that the only way to salvation is through the Pope (or rather a mythic perfect Pope since the last few don’t pass the mustard).
What is funny is that this was meant to be an attack on Lutherans today, who are probably very familiar with this material, and other non Lutheran Protestants, who couldn’t care less.
I think the reason I keep doing so is not so much for the obstinate few for which NO facts will suffice but for others who may be reading the thread so that they can have those facts to make up their own minds.