How to kill the devil--looking for some thoughts

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I'm getting confused. Is AW a Christian forum or a writers forum?

If you had quoted my entire post, it would have shown that I was talking about writing. I was giving the original poster biblical background on the devil. It's called research.
 

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Angel Shoes

Very nice! I wonder what angel shoes look like.
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Thank you!

Well, I know the devil wears Prada. Angels...?
Sorry.

I've always figured that since angels never touch the ground, they don't use shoes - so an angel's shoe is in the same category as a phoenix egg or hen's teeth.
 

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Angelinity sort of got close to my point as did someone else as I scanned down.

To me the premise is off base: To me you'd be dealing with a devil (easy to get rid of) and the Devil, aka Lucifer et. al. (difficult to do since he's as immortal as an angel).

Actually, there are some interesting theological questions raised here. Does belief constitute existence? Is the Devil really the equal of God since the evil one is only an egotistical fallen angel? Is the Devil a Christian fantasy? etc.
 

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Addenda: Concerning Smiling Ted's comment about angels not needing shoes.

Isn't there some passage in the Bible about angels getting their feet washed because the feet were dirty?
 

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That's one way to look at it.

It's the way the information was given. How you take it is up to you. The last I heard, we respected each other's views on AW and didn't insult people for them. People are guaranteed freedom OF religion. Not freedom FROM religion.
 

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It's the way the information was given. How you take it is up to you. The last I heard, we respected each other's views on AW and didn't insult people for them. People are guaranteed freedom OF religion. Not freedom FROM religion.

Last I heard, this was a forum made up of people from all around the world, with a wide variety of beliefs. Quoting scripture all over the board as if it were fact is insulting to non-Christians.
 

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Hi. I'm working on a spec fic short and my protag is currently cooking a kill-the-devil stew.

So far, I've got holy water as the base along with a rosary steeping while the chicken cooks.

Any other tokens of ill will I could add? The protag is Catholic, although not necessarily knowledgeable about what it takes to kill the devil.

This part of the story is going to be the recipe itself, which is why I'm trying to brainstorm other elements.

Thanks!
M

I had a closely equivalent problem in the work I am currently trying to get an agent to actually read. The solution was not to kill the fantastically superpowerful immortal being, but to get him drunk and make him sign a new contract with a different immortal being with a different agenda. By the end of the story Mr. Devil-equivalent was living in a golden cube on the necklace of the other immortal being after his magical piss had created a miraculous weapon at the end of a rainbow...but he was still ready for more action! When he gets out of his cube...look out! But not in that book or any of the ones I've outlined. Maybe he never will get out of that cube.
 
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