The "earth cake" theory. Bet you never heard that one preached in a COG before have you? It certainly sounds more interesting than hearing HWA bellow on about the two trees week after week.
Here is what Jeff Dugger from
A Small Voice has to say:
This
"earth-cake" theory asserts that God placed the pre-fallen Lucifer on
Earth
(along with one third of the angels), to
better complete what was supposed to have been an already perfect
creation. God does
not create in any other fashion than
perfection. The analogy of the Earth being represented as a baked cake
with the
angels being ordered to frost the unfinished
sweet concoction is often thrust forward as an explanation. Another
analogy in
this same line of reasoning portrays Earth as
a piece of newly constructed furniture, with the angels being sent by
God to
sand, stain and varnish our planet to a final
and better completed product.
Scripture
never states that God placed Lucifer on Earth to do any type of
finishing
work at all, unless one assumes God to be
represented symbolically as the red dragon of Rev. 12--which is wholly
impossible.
This theory attempts to show that Lucifer was
transformed from super-angel into the Devil while on Earth, and
subsequently
traveled to Heaven in an attempt to knock God
from His throne. However, the text cannot possibly support such a
scenario.
It's abundantly clear from Rev. 12:3-4 that
it was Satan, no longer the good guy super-angel, who was responsible
for sending
one third of the angels to Earth, and not
God.
Instead of "earth cake" I think this more aptly describes him:
