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If you read everything Luther wrote you'll find he tries to change the meaning of what is exceedingly clear in Numbers where God the Father swallowed heretics alive for preaching the same priesthood of all believers doing away with the liturgical priesthood Luther preached. He also tap dances around the clear statement in Malachi where it says the Gentiles will offer the pure sacrifice daily from the rising of the sun until its going down (something that by definition requires a liturgical priesthood) once the Gentiles are brought into the Covenant.

Martin Luther sure lives rent free in many RCs minds! It's noticed you avoided answering what passages in the Apocryphal books - you mistakenly said Luther threw away "because Luther was desperate to get rid of direct statements in Scripture that contradicted his claims" - actually DID contradict his teachings. Go ahead, name them.

WRT the priesthood of all believers, it's funny how Catholics' "first" pope was the one who taught the priesthood of ALL believers. Was HE a heretic? Will you throw out this passage from your Bible?:

As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says:

“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,

“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”

They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (I Peter 2:4-10)