"Pastor Frank" <P...@christfirst.edu> wrote in message

> <alecmcmil...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> On May 9, 3:16 pm, Rasul <rasul...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> I was researching Lucifer (some call Satan) today and was surprised by
>>> what I learnt.
>>> Evidently Lucifer is an angel, a former high ranking angel who loved
>>> and was loyal to God. Lucifer is also known as the "Light Bringer" or
>>> the "Morning Star". It appears when God created mankind God commanded
>>> that the angels should bow down before this new creation. Many angels
>>> including Lucifer reacted by saying why should we bow before these
>>> creatures of clay, us angels who have always been loyal to God and are
>>> creatures of fire. The disagreement resulted in a massive war between
>>> Lucifer and God in which some church sources estimate near 400 million
>>> angels were involved in, a third of those angels followed Lucifer. In
>>> the end Lucifer lost the war and was cast down with his followers from
>>> heaven. Not surprisingly Lucifer is pissed off with mankind.
>>> Looking at the situation from a reasonable position I cannot see how
>>> Lucifer has done anything wrong. I mean go down to your local town or
>>> city centre and see the rubbish called humanity that exists there...
>>> think of all those mass murderers like Hitler, Saddam Hussein or
>>> Stalin... Lucifer has got a point... why should Lucifer and the angels
>>> want to bow before this crap? Lucifer so far looks quite reasonable
>>> and certainly not evil as far as this issue goes.
>>> Comments welcome.

>    Lucifer screeching: "I shall exalt myself above the highest heaven and all
> creation shall bow down before me" may "sound reasonable" to you, but to most
> everyone else,

>he appears to be suffering from terminal hubris. But then both of you might as
>well echo the fellow who said: It takes all kinds to make a world, I'm just
>glad I'm not one of them.