Until the Reformation, religious knowledge was determined by popes and councils. But these were composed of men—men who contradicted themselves and made unsound judgments, men prone to error and encumbered by the illusions of their own insanity. For Luther, religious knowledge could come from no other source than God himself. This led him to stand at the Diet of Worms and declare this: Unless I am convinced by the testimony of Scriptures or by clear reason, for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they often err and contradict themselves, I am
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