User blog comment:Lambda1/"We Happy Few" - Discussion/@comment-26992577-20160524215123/@comment-34326521-20160524215906

How about "The knife shattered because you didn't really want to hurt her?", or just "God is speculating this, but it has no bearing on the truth?"? There are many possibilities. Regardless, let's assume they failed to convey exactly what they were thinking. That doesn't mean any and all potential misinterpretations are suddenly valid. All it means is that there was a communication error. It's not bad writing; it's just miscommunication. Sometimes, we write things that seem obvious to us, but aren't obvious to other people, and we have no way of knowing that unless we can approach it with zero knowledge of our intentions, which is impossible, for obvious reasons.

The witches' spell was in Latin - Attenuare, which sounds suspiciously like "Attenuate" (for good reason), which should give you a hint as to what it does. Furthermore, God said that the final attack - Lucifer's - would be physical, implying the rest were not.