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An angel told Tobit to do what he did. You keep ignoring that.

I don't remember you raising that issue with me specifically, but even if you had, yes, I would ignore it. It is irrelevant. Many fairy tales have supernatural beings telling folks what to do. Even the Devil himself can appear as an angel of light. So sorry, you'll need to do much better than claim an angel made him do it.

Also, just because a spiritual being is not physical does not mean he cannot relate to the physical world. YHWH had no body and yet is said to have enjoyed the odor of sacrifices.

God is a spirit. Pleasing odor is used throughout Scripture as a metaphor to describe that which at a spiritual level is pleasing to God:

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. (15) For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: (16) To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

But if you really believe demons respond to bad smells, you go ahead and try that next time you run into one of those things. Give it your best shot. Put it on YouTube. I hear tell Red Herring works too. But it's got to be real old for maximum effectiveness. :)

With Tobit, the odor was not the issue, but Tobit’s willingness to obediently follow instructions.

That's not how the text reads. The remedy is presented as having general medicinal value, good for any affliction involving an evil spirit. Odor was what made the "remedy" work. Category error. Tobit is a fable.

Peace,

SR

“But if you really believe demons respond to bad smells, you go ahead and try that next time you run into one of those things.”

Bud, they respond to holy water - they hate it. They respond to the Eucharist - they hate it. They’re a lot like Protestant anti-Catholics.

God chose to heal people with a graven image of a snake. God does what He wills. You deny that. I never will.