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Don't those involve creative approaches and tricking or otherwise outsmarting the devil or local equivalent?
This is just Johnny being better than the devil and having a massive ego about it. That specific situation tends to be punished.
Johnny having a massive ego about it is a great sin of Pride, and so the devil ends up getting his soul anyway.
What are you even talking about? That's not reflected in the lyrics of the song at all and a single sin doesn't condemn someone to hell.
It's not pride if you give fair warning that you just actually are that good. The devil was the boastful one challenging someone and not being able to back it up
He's boasting about it before, and gloating about it after. But the devil is expected to sin, so it doesn't matter. Johnny on the other hand knows he's being boastful, and goes and does it anyway.
As a professional baseball(?) player once said, "It's not bragging if you can do it."