[Mercat]

The early Church fathers included these books at the same time as they included the rest of the Old Testament. They stayed there until Luther decided that they did not fit his world view and he excluded them. He went back to a set of OT scriptures established in I think about 400 AD. So he relied on a bunch of Jewish scholars instead of the men who were basically the grandchildren of the apostles.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“They stayed there until Luther decided that they did not fit his world view and he excluded them.”

More importantly, the canon has been reexamined multiple times since then and the early errors of including these books has been corrected.

Errors and witchcraft/divination rule these books out for a great many believers in Christ. They reach this decision without regard to Luther.

[hinckley buzzard]

Luther relied on St. Jerome, one of the Fathers of the Church. Your bigoted ignorance of basic Christian history is unbecoming.

[ealgeone]

The early Church fathers included these books at the same time as they included the rest of the Old Testament.

they may have been included but were never accorded the same status as Scripture.