REQUIEM OF AN ARCHDEVIL depicts the story of the second most powerful demon of the devil’s lowerarchy, BABEL, who confesses in psychotherapy his trials and tribulations to terminate SHILOH, the Holy Spirit, in order to be nominated First Commander and eventually supplant Lucifer.
I once watched an old interview with Miloš Forman, director of one of my favorite movies that won eight Oscars in 1985, Amadeus. Forman said, “Tell the truth, but make it interesting.”
In Amadeus, the protagonist is the “bad guy,” and the antagonist is the “good guy.” The audience, therefore, witnesses the brilliance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the eyes of his envious contemporaneous composer, Antonio Salieri.
C.S. Lewis’s novel, The Screwtape Letters (1942), also influenced me as the story portrays an older devil who mentors an apprentice to lead humankind astray from the truth of the gospel. Nevertheless, the audience gets to experience the glory of God through evil teachings.
I DNA’d my novel’s structure based on this principle, glorifying God’s mightiness through the eyes of evil. Thus, the readers witness Shiloh’s greatness (the Holy Spirit) through the eyes of Archdevil Babel.
“But how does the story end? Who wins? What’s the moral of it all?” they shoot back. Well… you’ll have to read the book to find out. Right? But let me ask you this. Did Satan win when he succeeded in infuriating the religious authorities that led to Jesus’ crucifixion? Or was it all part of God’s plan?
Nevertheless, as the author, I made a choice to express my creativity within clear boundaries: biblical principles, history (biblical and world), and biblical prophecies. REQUIEM OF AN ARCHDEVIL does not rewrite history or the Bible for the simple reason that there was no need to do so to show God’s glory. It simply offers a fictional explanation from the spiritual realm of why events occurred the way they did.
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