“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
Will Luther take back anything he has said?
a.
yes
c.
under certain conditions
b.
no
d.
only if paid