Not really sure. What I can extrapolate from the Bible, is that Lucifer[I'll call him "Lucy" for short] wanted mankind to be able to perceive good and evil. God wanted them to be ignorant, because They knew that, given knowledge of good and evil, they could choose evil, which was bad. After the whole Garden debacle, Lucy was stripped of his wings[Dragon turned to serpent] and cast down. Not really sure what canonically hapens afterwards. The Bible describes Lucy a fair bit less then the actual Church does[See "Shitty fanfics, above"]. In any case, according to Revelation[Questionable canon, please take with 1/12th of a saltshaker], Lucy would be cast into Hell[Described as a pit of burning brimstone] for eternity at the same time as everyone else at the Last Judgement. Not ruling it. IN it.
That seems logical, though I think we're better off going purely with what's in the Bible. Everything else is... Questionable, at best, one would think, being written by humans, who are flawed. I think the original bible was written by God on golden tablets or something though I may be getting confused.
Let me backpedal a bit though... I thought free will was something God gave to humans (that is, the ability to choose)? Was it Lucy instead, and God merely chose not to immediately take free will away thus 'giving' it to humans?
Also, can you please fill me in on a bit of the context I must be missing? Because that short version is seriously, seriously making me think Lucy was the 'good guy' in this scenario. Actually, I think I remember hearing something else and actually thinking that I sympathized a lot more with Lucy than with God, which will probably condemn me to hell or something. Anyway, what am I missing?
Also, how could Lucy possibly have done something against God's wishes? It's omniscient and omnipotent (apparently), so I can't understand how Lucy was able to get around that and actually do something that God truly, seriously didn't want Lucy to do (as opposed to just something God said It didn't want Lucy to do but it was Just As Planned all along. Actually, given my understanding of God it seems to be totally impossible for something to *not* be Just As Planned). Is there some sort of clause exempting the angels from God's direct influence or something? Seriously, what am I missing? >_>
Humans already HAD free will, sort of. This is demonstrated by them going against God's command and eating the fruit. Couldn't have hapened if they didn't have free will. What they lacked was knowledge of good and evil, which meant they were ignorant. God didn't want them to have that knowledge, deeming it too harmful. But They also gave humankind the capacity to gain it if they wanted to, with the tree of good and evil. Its entirely possible They would have shared it with humankind at a later date, as a step towards enlightenment or somesuch. As for Lucy being in the right? Its quite possible
Lucy started out as having philosophical differences with God and had benign, if misguided intentions. But, according to Revelation[And it might also have been mentioned in other places too, can't remember],
Lucy then tried to stage a coup with a cadre[A third of them, according to Revelation] of like-minded angels instead of trying to justify his action.
Things devolved from there.RE: Animal cruelty:
Yeah, not okay. Inflicting harm on a sentient creature[Bugs are iffier] is wrong. Pretty sure animals have souls, being able to feel pain and pleasure and emotions[Mostly mammals. Reptiles are notably less so.]. However, with the lack of Original Sin/knowledge of good and evil, animals cannot sin, simply because they don't really comprehend morality and such. As I said before, monkeys and similar borderline-sapient animals might be able to, since some monkeys can use tools, develop complex relationships and engage in [Fairly simple storm veneration mostly]religion and large-scale warfare.
FAKEEDIT: GAH SO MANY NINJAZ.
In any case, sort of in response to the aforementioned NINJAZ:
Sentience =/=
Sapience.The vast majority[And then some] of what we consider animals are sentient, to varying degrees[As previously mentioned, reptiles and similar feel relatively little emotion]. Humans and possibly some higher primates[No idea where dolphins fall in this.] are sapient.
Exploiting animals for human gain...
Its necessary. Or very close to it. Unnecessary animal exploitation should be stopped. Even if it IS necessary, they should be treated fairly well. And alternative means of producing animal products without harming sentient creatures should be looked into. Although, once such means become widespread, what hapens to the now-obsolete cattle? Not sure that'd be any BETTER for them...