Although Protestants do not generally include the Apocrypha within their Bibles individuals like Martin Luther and John Calvin believed the texts relevant to Christianity (Wilcox, 2014). However, the majority of Protestants take issue with the fact that the Apocrypha’s origins are largely unknown and appear in languages other than Hebrew (Tullock, & McEntire, 2012). Consequently, due to the preservation of the Apocrypha within Christian circles, the unclear Jewish origins, and the timeline they were written that they lack divine inspiration. Therefore, without divine inspiration, they exclude these books from their Bibles, and its use is limited, if at all.
