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The letters are fascinating in what they show about the mindset of the Protestants only a few years after Luther's death. Their heresy and arrogance was so overwhelming that the Patriarch eventually had to tell them to go away and stop writing to him. The desire to rule is the mother of all heresies, Blogger.

And yet where is this "rule" today? We are castigated at every turn for having a million zillion denominations, and that is because we have no centralized authority. We are told that is our weakness. We are told the only way to God is to have a firm rule under men. Yet, we don't have it. Who really does have this desire to rule? The RCs do to the highest degree, and the Orthodox to a lesser degree. However, you have it to a much greater degree than we do. I know you believe that your leaders are justified in the power they wield, but my main point is that "ruling" isn't really what we're all about. We get pounded all the time by you guys because of that. :)

where is this "rule" today? That rule is in everyone, no matter how uniquely his his theological position is, claimes to speak direct from the Holy Ghost. Witness Blogger on this thread. Every Protestant thinks he is a pope.