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.