After dealing loosely with angels in my final exams and in a paper that juxtaposed Milton's Lucifer and the biblical Satan, I feel relatively qualified to play. :D
The rebellion isn't in the Bible. Neither is Lucifer as Satan. I always thought that writers with a lot of fantasy made this up because one God is just really boring as far as storytelling goes. Which is why angels are basically lesser Gods and the whole family replaced the Greek and Roman pantheon. And we all know that Greek and Roman deities were very human and made mistakes all the time.
The whole rebellion plot in the apocrypha doesn't make any sense, if angels don't have a free will. Or if there is a God who is omniscient and omnipresent. Because in this case he would have known all along that some of his angels wouldn't be thrilled with humans and Lucifer and co. couldn't have rebelled in the first place. So in this regard SPN mythology isn't very different from or any less logical than Christian mythology.
What really got my goat, though, was that SPN mythology makes Lucifer the younger brother. The parallel would have flown if they had stuck with Christian mythology, in which Lucifer was the most beautiful and most powerful angel and first among his peers. But apparently viewers are too thick to get it if the brothers' roles are reversed? Why this annoys me? Well, why would Lucifer be God's Adversary if he is second to Michael as well? Wouldn't he be Michael's Adversary then?
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Date: 2009-11-08 11:08 am (UTC)The rebellion isn't in the Bible. Neither is Lucifer as Satan. I always thought that writers with a lot of fantasy made this up because one God is just really boring as far as storytelling goes. Which is why angels are basically lesser Gods and the whole family replaced the Greek and Roman pantheon. And we all know that Greek and Roman deities were very human and made mistakes all the time.
The whole rebellion plot in the apocrypha doesn't make any sense, if angels don't have a free will. Or if there is a God who is omniscient and omnipresent. Because in this case he would have known all along that some of his angels wouldn't be thrilled with humans and Lucifer and co. couldn't have rebelled in the first place. So in this regard SPN mythology isn't very different from or any less logical than Christian mythology.
What really got my goat, though, was that SPN mythology makes Lucifer the younger brother. The parallel would have flown if they had stuck with Christian mythology, in which Lucifer was the most beautiful and most powerful angel and first among his peers. But apparently viewers are too thick to get it if the brothers' roles are reversed? Why this annoys me? Well, why would Lucifer be God's Adversary if he is second to Michael as well? Wouldn't he be Michael's Adversary then?