Did Protestants "REMOVE" Books from Scripture? The Evidence Says...

Millions of Christians have been taught that Martin Luther tore seven books out of the Bible. His own writings, in his own hand, tell a very different story, and in at least three cases, he called them Spirit-inspired. In this investigation, I put Luther's actual 1534 preface, his individual prefaces from Luther's Works volume 35, an 1880 Missouri Synod Bible still bound with the Apocrypha, and a 1685 King James Bible on the table, and trace the real history of how Protestant and Catholic Old Testaments actually diverged. That includes the 1826 fight inside the British and Foreign Bible Society (where the majority actually wanted to keep these books), the 1902 standoff over the King's own Coronation Bible, and what the Dead Sea Scrolls changed about the reformers' original reasoning. This isn't a defense of one side or an attack on the other. It's what the evidence actually shows. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – The 1880 Bible nobody expects 2:11 – Who I am and what's on the table 2:44 – The seven books everyone argues about 3:27 – Did Luther really throw them out? 4:18 – Still bound in a Bible printed in 1880 4:54 – Luther's own words: "written in the Holy Spirit" 6:25 – The 1932 translation that quietly left them out 8:13 – Inside the fight to remove the Apocrypha (1826) 9:57 – The King's Coronation Bible standoff (1902) 11:04 – There was no single "Hebrew Bible" in Jesus's day 13:20 – What the New Testament actually quotes from 15:53 – How "canonical" used to mean something different 18:20 – The Council of Trent's controversial vote 19:46 – Neither side removed or added anything 21:01 – Where to go deeper SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO • Luther's Works, vol. 35: Word and Sacrament I (Fortress Press / Concordia, trans. E. Theodore Bachmann) • Works of Martin Luther, Vol. VI, trans. Charles M. Jacobs (A.J. Holman Co. & Castle Press, 1932) • 1880 Biblia (Missouri Synod, St. Louis), Zweiter Band • Council of Trent, Fourth Session, Decree Concerning the Canonical Scriptures (1546) • David Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s • John C. Bennett, "Charles Simeon and the Evangelical Anglican Missionary Movement" (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992) • Lambeth Palace Library correspondence, 1902 Coronation Bible dispute • Israel Antiquities Authority, Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library Want to go deeper into the manuscript evidence behind this video? I've put together further study material inside The Portal at GCLMedia.org. If you're new here, I'm Dr. G. (G.C. Lewis), author of Canon & Tongue. For more than twenty years I've studied biblical manuscripts, translation history, and canon formation, including hands-on work with Dead Sea Scroll fragments. My goal isn't to hand you conclusions. It's to teach you how to investigate the evidence yourself.