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I was curious if the appearance of the peppers was part of his descent into madness. It would probably work on the page

You have some self-inflicted wounds in this first scene, but I think easily solved next pass.

For example, Lucifer says '...but You'll never win'
And it really caught my attention because would Lucifer really add the capitalized reverence... or is it a translated reverence (assuming they're speaking some language that existed with romanized letters at inception (Sadly, even Aramaic won't do)). This creates a horrible linguistic rabbit hole.

I cannot tolerate imperfection within My perfect creation.
This launches yet another rabbit hole. If the creation is perfect, then so is Lucifer (being part of that creation?). Thus the perfection means Lucifer can also freely create? Also, would God revere himself?

[whether or not God would refer to Satan as Satan or as Lucifer]
Shaitan sounds distinctly human, and for God to use it is kinda mocking, which is not how he's presented in scripture

Lastly, the speech between them is distinctively modern. Some random examples:
Eg: Your church is so feeble => Your church is feeble
Eg: The church tolerates so much division => Division runs rampart within the ranks of Y/your church
Eg: I won't need to get complicated. They just need to be introduced =>  ???
I'd consider stripping contractions and pragmatics. Example: I won't get complicated => I need not engage in petty strife (Don't use this, it's a terrible suggestion but best way I could think off the top of my head to dance around the "won't")... the 'just' is also super modern. Maybe "They need but be introduced" or even remove entirely. So the most eye-catching terms: so, just, even, such.

Re contractions example: Hell isn't in my future => Hell lies not in my future
DISCLAIMER!!! All these suggestions are aimed at you wanting the reader to hit the ground running one page 1 paragraph 1 with God and Satan speaking. If this IS how they normally speak and will do so for the rest of the title, it's fine as-is

You ask why I didn't review for the points, I say I need a few more chapters to better grasp the wider context

Very detailed. I did a casual google of the Holy Land and came up with https://www.seetheholyland.net/ which is not even close

Hey JR. What you do this wintery month?

Star Craft used Confederacy but they boldly leaned right into the civil war aspect down to the character's accents. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQoP47wTRo

Picture my last comment like this:

Elon Musk invents a rocket that can reach the nearest habitable planet. We happily scoot over there and meet a race of talking frogs.  How do we introduce ourselves? Earth isn't a republic or much of anything.

Fast forward 100 years and Earth founds a central government and acquires a prefix. Would the Frogees bother changing all their records? Or would they just keep calling us Earthlings?

Graphene is some scary-level tech compared to the primitive tech of today. Imagine if some clever researcher found a way to bind it to living cells and bridge man to machine! Neuralink perfected right there. Laurie disapproves

Something to factor in, English caps more than the romance languages, which you may be getting advice from.

For example Canadian is lowercase adjective in French (Les hommes canadiens) but definitely adjective caps in English.

nah, I'm back in. Seems like my credit card's AI didn't like the membership change. It was probably seeing regular charges for the past 10 years then a sudden shift

Oof!