If we really look at the story, the only crime that Lucifer commited was not loving humans, so in turn for that God banished him, yes he did attack heaven, but he did so out of the betrayal of his family and his brother. Was he really that wrong, does the punishment fit the crime?
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I have never heard the story the way you tell it.
"yes he did attack heaven, but he did so out of the betrayal of his family and his brother."
That is the part I never heard before. Please explain more fully. As far as I know, Lucifer rebelled against the king and that is a death sentence in any kingdom.
Lucifer was thrown out of heaven by his brother, Michael, this was a sign of betrayal, this is why he attacked heaven, also due to the fact that he did not bow to humans, he was not going to attack heaven at first, until Michael beat him down and God banished him, that is when he attacked, in my eyes that is not anything bad.
In the bible story, Lucifer did not love humans more than he did god, as he was commanded to by god to do so. This disappointed god, though in return this disappointment led to Lucifer becoming angered with god. He decided to exact his revenge on the humans that god held so dearly by tempting Adam and Eve to eat the apple that supposedly was the birth of sin. This was seen as betrayal, and as such he was cast out of heaven. The only crime that Lucifer committed was not loving his creator as much as he did his other creations. Now, the more interesting part in this theory is that upon reading the bible in it's entirety you become aware that Lucifer, who is supposedly this evil anti-christ, killed six people. Over the course of every single book in the bible Lucifer killed six people. In only one book, god destroyed the earth by flooding it because he saw everyone on the planet as sinners, so he simply erased them. Quite frankly I've never heard of a less fitting punishment, other than maybe flooding the world because of sins. This sparks a lot of controversial debate, as you can imagine. As to why, if god cares for humanity so much he would invoke such harsh punishments for every small thing we do that upsets him.
The term “Lucifer” is found only once in the Scriptures and that at Isaiah 14:12. Even this, however, is true of only certain versions, such as the King James, Douay, An American Translation, Knox and Darby. The American Standard Version and the Revised Standard Version use the expression “Day Star”; Rotherham, “Shining One”; Moffatt, “shining star.”
These title could not refer to the original perfection, beauty and jewellike brightness that he enjoyed as the covering cherub, which is described by the prophet Ezekiel at Ezekiel 28:14-17, AS. It can only be applied in a taunting sense to Satan, and that only from 607 B.C. onward.
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