Since the story does exist, your lack of believe in God is irrelevant to the question.
The story I was told (a long time ago) was that Lucifer (or the devil) wasn't bad. He was a thinker, and one of God's greatest angels. Being a thinker, he started to question God's character. He essentially asked the other angels "Does God deserve to be God?". This caused a bit of a paradox for the big man upstairs.
Since God is "love" it follows: that if God killed Lucifer for simply asking questions then the other angels would only worship Him out of fear and not out of love. Thus leading many of the other angles to question God's character too.
Why doesn't God just destroy the devil?
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Since the story does exist, your lack of believe in God is irrelevant to the question.
The story I was told (a long time ago) was that Lucifer (or the devil) wasn't bad. He was a thinker, and one of God's greatest angels. Being a thinker, he started to question God's character. He essentially asked the other angels "Does God deserve to be God?". This caused a bit of a paradox for the big man upstairs.
Since God is "love" it follows: that if God killed Lucifer for simply asking questions then the other angels would only worship Him out of fear and not out of love. Thus leading many of the other angles to question God's character too.