Bevendre

Lucifer’s goal is not to deceive humanity, per se, but to spite God.  Lucifer was cast out of Paradiso because he refused to bow before God’s new creations of man, and chose instead to rise against God, convincing a fair few angels to side with him as they believed themselves God’s equal, and man inferior.  To a point they were correct.

The point of the meme is to point out the fallacies in many religions and viewpoints, namely that what one believes is as much a matter of how it is taught as it is what is taught.  What many people forget is that Lucifer is very rarely a direct influence in biblical and holy texts, and almost never is acknowledged with the unjust.  This is due in large part to his being imprisoned in Inferno.  God however brings about untold disaster and loss, all while overseeing greater atrocities, because it is part of his ‘plan’. According to biblical texts God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient.  It is not because God does not know of the evils of the world, or of man’s potential for evil, nor is it because God is busy that evil takes place.   Following the definitions of most iterations of the Judeo-Christian God, He is everywhere, can do everything, and knows everything.  It is his plan for there to be evil.

God gave free will to man, and to angels knowing that they would fall from grace.  Only God is infinite.  All else is finite and ending.  Following that, the concept of 'free will’ before an omniscient being is flawed as a finite creature can only conceptualize a finite amount of outcomes, and a finite sequence of outcomes from all of those.  God, however, being all knowing, all powerful, and ever present bears the capacity to anticipate everything and would therefor anticipate the fall of His creatures great and small.

Lucifer bestowed upon Man the evil of knowledge, but also the knowledge that thought and reason is not evil.  God gave temptation knowing the outcome, Lucifer gave reason out of spite towards his own creator.