According to Christian beliefs:
Lucifer/Satan, the Morningstar, endowed by his creator (God) with the highest beauty, wisdom, position in all of heaven, with the highest access to God out of all of the angels decided to rebel. In addition, we are led to infer from the Bible that he also convinced 1/3 of the Angels to rebel with him against God as well (debatable but I digress).
The common narrative is that Satan wanted the glory for himself and God threw him out as fast as lightning given his prideful rebellion.
I think it's overly simple to think that Lucifer's rebellion was simply rooted in that he wanted to receive glory over God and so he sought out that "freedom" to pursue his own glory and "own way".
I think it's more along the lines that Lucifer's problem Was/is with Gods plan with creation. The fact that God would create billions of humans and The overwhelming majority of them would burn in hell for eternity vs the few that would be "chosen" to be in heaven for eternity with him. Seems like a problematic overall picture. The pinnacle of creation (humans) created and the vast majority end up suffering for all of eternity because of their choice not to believe in Jesus. Like overkill or something. Most humans have average lifespans over the course of history of 40 years and whatever you do in that amount of time determines an eternity of punishment OR glory in heaven. The problem is lessened/worsened if you're a Calvinist and you think humans have no choice in their destination.
Obviously God can do what he wants and owes no one, including Satan, nothing but maybe he saw this plan and saw it as objectable and thought that created beings should have the freedom to do as they pleased? Not saying he was morally superior, just disagreed, to the point that it was worth rebelling in the face of pure annihilation (because Satan and the demons certainly do not think they can beat God).
Not to empathize with Satan or anything because, he's satan, but just trying to get to a more logical baseline to the first rebellion.
Lucifer/Satan, the Morningstar, endowed by his creator (God) with the highest beauty, wisdom, position in all of heaven, with the highest access to God out of all of the angels decided to rebel. In addition, we are led to infer from the Bible that he also convinced 1/3 of the Angels to rebel with him against God as well (debatable but I digress).
The common narrative is that Satan wanted the glory for himself and God threw him out as fast as lightning given his prideful rebellion.
I think it's overly simple to think that Lucifer's rebellion was simply rooted in that he wanted to receive glory over God and so he sought out that "freedom" to pursue his own glory and "own way".
I think it's more along the lines that Lucifer's problem Was/is with Gods plan with creation. The fact that God would create billions of humans and The overwhelming majority of them would burn in hell for eternity vs the few that would be "chosen" to be in heaven for eternity with him. Seems like a problematic overall picture. The pinnacle of creation (humans) created and the vast majority end up suffering for all of eternity because of their choice not to believe in Jesus. Like overkill or something. Most humans have average lifespans over the course of history of 40 years and whatever you do in that amount of time determines an eternity of punishment OR glory in heaven. The problem is lessened/worsened if you're a Calvinist and you think humans have no choice in their destination.
Obviously God can do what he wants and owes no one, including Satan, nothing but maybe he saw this plan and saw it as objectable and thought that created beings should have the freedom to do as they pleased? Not saying he was morally superior, just disagreed, to the point that it was worth rebelling in the face of pure annihilation (because Satan and the demons certainly do not think they can beat God).
Not to empathize with Satan or anything because, he's satan, but just trying to get to a more logical baseline to the first rebellion.