“Since your serene Majesty and your lordships request a simple answer, I shall give it, with no strings and no catches. Unless I am convicted by the testimony of Scripture or plain reason (for I believe neither in the pope nor councils alone, since it is agreed they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted, and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I neither can nor will revoke anything, for it is neither safe nor honest to act against one’s conscience. . . . Here I stand, I can do no other.”
—Martin Luther, speech to Charles V,
as quoted in The European Emergence: Time Frame A.D. 1500–1600

By what does Luther say he should be judged?
a.
the pope
c.
simple answers
b.
the scriptures
d.
history