Letter B. Subject > [What Scripture tells us] should be the basis for our behavior. <u>The brackets show better the Subject</u>. The Subject is the naming part of a sentence. It shows who or what performs the action. In grammar, the two main parts of a sentence are the Subject and the Predicate. In this case, the Subject is compound of several words.
<em>The Subject is commonly a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase.</em>
It would most likely be B or C since they are the same. Dashes basically show emphasis and if the sentence inside them is taken away, the other parts of the sentence are not affected. If we took the lion part out of your sentence, the sentence would still be talking about symbolism. However it more common to use parenthesis or commas to add emphasis but that's just stylistic choice