Tarsonis Survivors wrote:The Federation of Kendor wrote:Why did he think that those seven books are unnecessary
I don't know if I'm the best to fill you in, I'm pretty biased on the subject.
"Officially" the seven apocryphal texts were removed from Protestant canon because they don't appear in the Hebrew canon. However the truth is much more sinister, in that the Protestant reformers, Luther in particular, tried to remove books from the canon that contradicted their theology. Luther, for instance, tried to get James removed, going so far as calling it the "epistlenof straw" primarily for its emphasis on works as necessary for salvation. But fortunately other reformers rejected this effort.
James I also had a hand in that sort of thing, didn't he?