By your definition, every protestant is delusional.
That would not surprise me in the least!
And I seriously doubt that he wanted glory from it.
Clearly not. He was well acquainted with Catholic saints and did not demonstrate an abundance of the fruit of the Spirit. It is unlikely that God will be glorified through one who does not.
Luther sent the Theses enclosed with a letter to Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, on 31 October 1517, a date now considered the start of the Reformation and commemorated annually as Reformation Day. If the Archbishop had taken him more seriously, things may have gone very differently.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Work...nd_notes,_Volume_1/Disputation_on_Indulgences
"Albert employed Tetzel for the actual preaching of the Indulgence and furnished him a book of instructions:“Instructio summaria ad Subcommissarios Penitentiarum et Confessores.” Later, Martin Luther addressed a letter of protest to Albert concerning the conduct of Tetzel, found fault with the Bishop’s book of instructions and asked him to suppress it.
Luther’s letter was disregarded. Though many of the accusations against Albert’s morals were doubtless, false, Luther was probably justified in thinking that he would find in Albert a strong partisan.
The young bishop was somewhat
worldly-minded, extravagant, better trained in humanistic studies than in theology, too much given to the patronage of learned men and artists. His long intimacy with Ulrich von Hutten is especially reprehensible. Leo X was obliged to send an admonition to Mainz because so many books hostile to the Faith were being published under the Bishop’s eye.
(The Catholic Encyclopaedia, Special edition; vol. I, Page 262. New York; The Encyclopedia Press, 1913.)
Now if the Catholic Encyclopedia says that the archbishop was “worldly minded” one can only imagine how secular he really was. Poor Luther had no pious person to whom he could appeal.
The only remaining option for them is to be obedient and to submit.
While I agree with this, Luther was so provoked by his perception that the Gospel was being sullied that he could not, in good conscience, do this.
