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New Job, New Family The day came that my parents never thought would come, the day that I was to leave for college. My parent had been preparing me for this new chapter in my life. My dad had taught me as much as he could about how to stay safe and what to do in certain situations. My mom taught me all she could about how to make it on my own without her always there to help me. We had a long tearful goodbye, we had a last supper, we had lots of “lasts” before I moved out. When the day came, an innocent bystander would have thought that I was going off to war to never be seen again. All this, for me to go to school thirty minutes down the road. My parents knew that this was necessary for me to do. I needed to get an education so that I could get a job so that I could make money so that I could get married so that I could have a child so that I could eventually send her off to college to do the same thing. On a more serious note, they sent me off so that I could get an education to...

How far is too far The Bible tells us that there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God; however, can selling your soul to the devil be too far? We can read in Colossians 1: 13-14, “ He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” We can also read in Psalm 103:12, “as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” This can give Christians reassurance that we can always be forgiven for our sins. However, in the story of Dr. Faustus, Faustus sells his soul to the devil to obtain power while on this earth. But when a conversation with the demon Mephistophilis occurs, he becomes worrisome and contemplates repenting and turning to God. But Faustus is too far set in his ways to deter from his sinful ways and continues down the wrong path. The rising question is, even though Faustus sold his soul to the devil,...