The Problem of the Psychological Madness Inferred in the Reformers in Relation to Authority within the Protestant Denominations.

If a man said that he spoke for God, that man is either -

1) God incarnate in the flesh, and the man should be obeyed.

2) Not God, but sent by God as a prophet and he should be obeyed.

3) Not God and not sent by God, but the man thinks he was sent by God. The man should not be obeyed.

Options 1) and 2) are real, but is option 3) real? And if so, is the man's claims to speak for God infer madness? Yes option 3) is real and did occur at the time of the Protestant Reformation. For several men claimed to speak for God, when in fact those men were not God incarnate and were not sent by God.

We know those men did not speak for God, for those men were not sacramentally ordained, and those same men invented new versions of Christianity not previously found in church history. As Christ, who is God, controls church history, then those who speak for God speak consistently with doctrines found in Church history. Yet, for example, Martin Luther claimed to speak for God, but was not ordained, and preached a new Lutheran version of the Gospel which was not previously contained within the writings of the church fathers, nor the decrees of the church councils.

Martin Luther then claimed to speak for God, when in fact Luther did not speak for God. Luther was then either -

1) A liar, then he should not be followed. Luther had no authority from God.

2) Was convinced of his position, but had no good reason to establish his authority, nor his new version of Christianity. Thus Luther was either psychologically unbalanced or perhaps at least at some stage, mad. 

Even so, because Luther and the other Protestant Reformers could not establish their own authority as an authority from God, then no Protestant denomination could (nor can) establish any legitimate authority from God. The authority system within Protestantism thereby infers a foundational madness (or lie and the consequent evil) derived from the false claims of the initial reformers, which cannot be resolved within Protestantism.

For if a man really believes he speaks for God when in fact the man does not speak for God, then the man is mad is he not? If he is not mad, what then does it take for a man to be mad?

Due to this and many other major problems with Protestantism, the Protestant Reformation will end in the almost complete secularisation of any country in which Protestantism is embraced. Several Countries such as England and the other northern European Scandinavian countries are already almost entirely secular.