Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"If we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us." Why then, belike we must sin and so consequently die.

Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

What doctrine call you this, Che sera sera,

"What will be shall be?" Divinity, adieu (scene 1, lines 42-45)

What is the significance of these lines from the play?

A) Faustus explains why he is going to follow Satan.

B) Faustus learns that death is inevitable.

C) Faustus reads his first magical incantation.

D) Faustus does not truly understand Christianity

The correct answer is option A: Faustus explains why he is going to follow Satan

Faustus seeks the highest form of knowledge, and he arrives at theology and opens the Bible to the New Testament, where he reads these quotations-everyone sins, and sin leads to death-which makes it seem as though Christianity can promise only death. This leads Faustus to give in to the fatalistic "What will be, shall be! Divinity, adieu!" However, Faustus neglects to read the very next line in John, which states, "If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). Faustus ignores the possibility of redemption and this blindness is apparent in the very next line of his speech: having turned his back on heaven, he pretends that "these metaphysics of magicians and necromantic books are heavenly." He thus exposes his reasons to cast aside the values of Christianity; he reverses the roles, adopting black magic as something 'heavenly' and taking Christianity as the source of death.