Okay, I read quite a bit of the older posts in this thread, but many are simply not getting the basic points of this movie. Here they are (as far as the story in the movie is concerned): MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
1. God IS real.
2. Dad did receive a real vision from God about killing DEMONS, not people (will explain).
3. In the Bible, Angels and demons can take on human form (I am not talking about possessing a real human being), and the movie is suggesting that in the last days, as the movies suggests it is, there are demons walking around AS humans, but are NOT humans.
4. God gave Dad and Adam the ability to detect these demons to verify their true nature and imbued their common tools, like an axe, with supernatural ability to actually DESTROY the demons that had taken on human form. They were NOT killing real people, except, apparently, for the Sheriff who dad killed to keep their secret. That is why he was so repentant for doing so and sick to his stomach. It may be, in that case, he did not trust in God and acted out of fear of exposure, when, in fact, God would have blinded the sheriff to the "killings". IT is also quite possible that, since they were really demons, there would be no bodies left, but who knows?
3. Fenton was, in fact, a demon, somehow born to humans, but he WAS s demon in human form, and he was supposed to have been destroyed. He, as a demon, ended up killing human beings.
Now, this is all a movie, and not how God operates, but, just like movies where there really are vampire killers or zombie killers, these truly, in the movie, were demon killers.
I hope this clarifies the very clear story in the movie.
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Injinn
9 years ago
Yes, agreed on all points.
It is funny how so many people seem to have ignored the part of the film where Fenton and Adam's dad stated these were demons, not humans who did bad things. They were demons who took human form -- so if what the dad said was true, and it would appear it was based on what the movie showed, then this wasn't about giving bad people their due, otherwise they could just go out and target everyone who did a bad thing, rather than wait for God to give them a list.
Fenton saw them as normal people, because he was a demon -- so the viewer saw them as normal people, too.
As you said, this was just a film, and within the story of the film this was not a case of good people killing bad people. It was a case of demon killers killing demons -- not humans who committed crimes, demons in human form.
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GarrettWNNZ
8 years ago
It was a case of demon killers killing demons -- not humans who committed crimes, demons in human form.
That's right, and in this case "demons" would just mean non-believers or defiers of "God" and not beings who commit evil acts.. both the "God's Army" and the "Demons" did evil and this was just a war about who was the strongest one.
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