Genesis 1.5

In the Quran, and also in Late Antique Christian mythology, Eden wasn't the first place God allowed in chaos... and faced a rebellion.

I have here laid out a case that the Eden episode was not even a rebellion. God had allowed free-will to enter His creation from the start; Eve and Adam simply expressed it. It follows, those two hadn't failed God's test. They passed it. As of Late Antiquity, various "gnostic" movements and, also, the challenge of Sasanian Iran had laid out the inadequacy of the Genesis legend to underpin a postJudaic state.

So late-antique Miaphysite Christendom, and then Islam, proposed a parallel Sündenfall: free-will exists in Heaven as well. The Satan, before Genesis Two, had expressed free-will there. In this parallel, God was wholly unequivocal: the râjim Accuser sinned, and himself was murjim.

One could explain this as God making a mistake, learning from that, and then running an experiment under the more-controlled environment of the Paradise. This blog's theology does allow for a god that learns. But from a story-structure perspective this looks repetitive.

I counter-propose: that the Biblical God, who has free-will by nature, grew into godhood in the same amniotic plane as did several other prospective gods. A mithal in our spiral arm of the galaxy is the planetary nebula, with a star and its planets. The star does not create the planets but it does constrain their growth.

Lucifer, by the way, is associated with the Morning Star which we call "Venus". It looks brilliant like the Moon, but like the Moon it reflects only what the Sun gives it.

Also by the way, the Bible and the Quran teach lessons for the betterment of humankind, and not Stone-Age humankind but civilised humankind.

Back to the empyrean: some of those Brown Dwarf Demigods accepted a subordinate role as God's agents - Greeks experience them as "angels". Other protogods perhaps escaped but they shan't detain us here.

The lesson the postBiblical tales of Lucifer the Angel would teach is that this one had stayed on to accept a role subordinate to God. Lucifer could not accept a role subordinate to man.

Misanthropy is certainly a believable motive. I note here that ParaCatholic popular cinema has other free-willed angels, later, following Lucifer's path: Dogma, for instance, and more daringly The Prophecy. But free will is free will. Any free willed entity under God is going to chafe against God eventually.

No god's realm can bear an angelic court for long. When those of us who deserve to meet the Biblical God, meet that God; said God shall entertain us as honoured guests. But this God shall, still, allow us our free-will. And we shall be parted: for better or for worse.