One day you're walking down the street minding your own business when suddenly, you bump
into a very handsome stranger.
You excuse yourself and he very politely accepts your apology, then with a flash of the brightest
smile you've ever seen, he asks you, “Say, you want to be famous, don't you?”
You think about it a moment, and then picture yourself shredding a gnarly rift on stage
in front of half a million people, or starring in Fast and Furious 16- before you know it
you nod your head eagerly, why yes, you'd love to be famous.
With a magical flourish, suddenly the handsome stranger holds out a long contract and a quill,
dripping with blood-red ink, and ready for you to sign on the dotted line.
Thinking to yourself, meh what do I have to lose?
You sign the contract, and suddenly you're starring in an episode of Keeping Up With
The Kardashians, helping make the world a more shallow, terrible place to live!
But wait, because you’re also organizing Fyre Festival 2020, and this time it’s totally
not a scam.
Your life's gone from zero to hero, and you're jet setting around the world to parties in
exotic places you never even knew existed.
Every time you go to bed though, you can't help but feel a certain... hollowness inside.
Like something really important is missing.
As the life of jet setting and partying wears on you, you run into the handsome stranger
once more, telling him that your life is flashy and glamorous, but completely empty- just
like you on the inside.
Then, you suddenly realize that you should've read more Stephen King books, because the
handsome stranger is none other than Lucifer, Lord of Lies and Prince of Darkness, and you
just sold your soul in exchange for fleeting pleasures.
So you've sold your sold to be famous and popular and after a few years of living this
way you realize that the real key to happiness is personal relationships and living a fulfilling
life by helping others... how are you going to get your soul back?
How are you going to defeat the Devil?
Well, to defeat your enemy first you must know your enemy.
In the Old Testament of the Bible we find the following from the Book of Isaiah, Chapter
14, verses 12-14: How you are fallen from heaven, o day star, son of dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars
of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Zaphon; I will ascend to
the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High!
This passage in scripture is written about an evil Babylonian king, but many scholars
believe that the passage was actually aimed at the spiritual force behind the king's evil
deeds- Lucifer himself.
In the book of Ezekiel we get a similar passage, where the prophet speaks words given to him
directly from God, which outlines the creation of an angel, “full of wisdom and perfect
in beauty.”
The angel made its home in the garden of eden, and was adorned in every precious stone, its
garments covered in gold.
Then however, the angel grew full of pride over its perfect beauty, and became violent
and sinful, reveling in its own wisdom, causing God to cast it out of heaven.
Satan, or Lucifer, is a being of great beauty and full of earthly wisdom, and just like
humans was given free will- this is because God wanted Lucifer to make the same choice
humans make, and love him out of his own free will.
Without choice, there can't be real love, and unfortunately for Lucifer, and you, he
chose to become prideful and try to become greater than God.
This led to his banishment from heaven, which apparently was quite the sight as in the New
Testament Jesus says in Luke 10:18, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
In Revelations 9:1 the writer says, I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he
was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
The devil isn't present only in the bible though, and he makes appearances in many religions,
always playing the same role.
In Islam the devil is known as Shaytan, and because Christianity, Judaism and Islam are
practically the exact same religion, he was also a spiritual being who rebelled against
God and was cast down to earth for it.
Judaism tends to treat the devil as more of an act, or a difficulty or temptation to overcome
rather than an actual spiritual being.
In Buddhism, Buddha experienced a temptation from the path of righteousness just like Jesus
did in the New Testament, with the demon Mara trying to sway Buddha away from enlightenment
by reveling in worldly pleasures instead.
When he failed to sway the Buddha, his three daughters, Tanha- representing thirst-, Arati-
representing aversion and discontentment- and Raga- representing attachment, desire,
greed, and passion- all attempted to sway the Buddha.
If he were to achieve enlightenment then all other mortals could follow in his footsteps,
and thus grow resistant to the evil that Mara and his daughters wished to sow amongst humanity.
Luckily for us all, the Buddha swept the daughters away, and continued unfazed in his quest for
enlightenment.
The devil famously reigns over hell, except that's not completely accurate.
In the Bible there is no mention of the devil actually ruling over hell, rather that hell
is a place specially prepared for the devil and his angels.
Instead, we get the idea of the devil ruling over hell from Dante Alighieri's The Divine
Comedy, which was published in the early fourteenth century and was meant to lampoon many of the
religious and civil leaders of Dante's time.
Thanks to mankind's fear of evil, and propelled along by works like Dante's Divine Comedy,
the devil was soon twisted into a grotesque being who does everything he can to drag humanity
into hell and suffer alongside him for eternity.
But this isn't the devil you're facing, because we're sticking with the original Christian
text here.
Instead you're facing a charismatic, incredibly handsome and very wise man who appears ageless,
because in fact he is.
Sure, he has the power to grant your deepest desires, but if there's one thing popular
culture has gotten right about the devil, it's that you'll ultimately have a price to
pay for his favors.
So how are you going to defeat the devil?
The devil is a prideful being, after all he is the most beautiful thing in all creation,
which technically means that when you tell your significant other that they're the most
beautiful thing in the world, you're actually lying.
But we guess that saying “You're the most beautiful thing ever- except for Satan”,
is probably not as romantic.
So go on, have your lies.
Our original point though is that because of his beauty, the devil is extremely prideful,
it was this pride after all that led to his downfall.
Thing is, the devil's got your soul, and you really need that back.
So you're going to play to his pride and challenge the devil to a competition.
Now if you're the fiddlin' type, forget playing for a golden fiddle because you're in this
for your soul.
If you're skilled with a guitar then you're in luck, because everyone knows that the Demon's
Code prevents Satan from declining a rock-off challenge.
Just remember that if you lose the rock-off, not only do you lose your soul, but KG is
going to have a very unpleasant time in hell as well, and he doesn't much like mayonnaise.
But if music isn't really your thing, then you could wait around for the Christian rapture
to come when all believers will be raptured away.
Sure, the devil will be let loose to reign on earth for a while, but eventually God will
cast him and his followers down into hell, and even if it's not you technically defeating
the devil at this point, nothing wrong with getting some divine assistance.
Of course the problem with this is that nobody really knows when the rapture will happen,
and it's been predicted more times than a Metallica come-back album that isn't complete
garbage.
So perhaps you need to take more proactive steps to defeat the devil.
Turns out the best way to beat the devil is to simply resist his influence in your life.
You can't defeat the devil physically, remember he's an immortal being created by God himself.
You're not going to outsmart the devil, he's been filled with wisdom, again by God.
If you're a red-hot fiddler you just might beat him in a contest, if his abilities to
out-fiddle Georgian country boys aren't understated.
So you're instead going to have to start living your life right, basically boring the devil
away.
As long as you keep living selfishly, looking out for yourself, and partaking in worldly
pleasures without a second thought, you're only going to strengthen the devil's hold
on your soul.
Time to take a page out of Buddhism, Christianity, and every other major religion out there,
and start living for others.
Be kind and return evil with good.
Look out for others before yourself.
Give ten percent- or more- of everything you make, without asking for anything in return.
Practice good deeds and deny yourself the fleeting pleasures of the flesh, it's not
easy but then again if it was then everyone would do it.
Remember, even if you made a deal with the devil himself, he has no real authority over...
well anything.
As long as the devil is real, then the one that made the devil, God, is also real, and
your best bet is to make the best appeal you can for God to get you out of the mess you
got yourself into.
One good way to get the devil to lose interest in you real quick though is to turn what he
gave you against him.
You traded your soul away for fame, power and wealth, so start using all of those things
to be a better person.
Use your massive influence to get people to stop using one-use plastics.
Become the Leonardo Dicaprio of our time and champion environmental issues with your massive
influence.
Well, Leonardo is still alive so we guess you could become a second Leonardo- whatever,
you get the point.
Devil give you a ton of wealth in your deal?
Use that money to feed the starving, shelter the homeless, and adopt a million lonely shelter
pets.
There's literally nothing the devil hates more than people doing good, and when you
end up doing good with what he gave you, well it's like you're forcing him to do good deeds.
If anything, God will probably appreciate your clever bit of manipulation and likely
get you out of your deal with the devil.
But for sure the devil is going to be pissed that you fooled him into being a good guy.
Either way, by turning your life around you're going to force him to relinquish his hold
on your life, and ultimately become a better person for it!
How would you defeat the devil?
Think you could trick Lucifer into doing good deeds?
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