The Darkness Grasped It Not

…or was this outright rejection?

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In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. And the Light shines in the darkness; and the darkness grasped it not. (John 1:4–5; New St. Joseph Catholic Bible).

Ever wonder why Lucifer and his cohorts would want to exchange their eternal happiness for fire and brimstone?

I consulted “Catholic Answers” (on the catholic.org website) to see if there happened to have been other “curious minds wanting to know”. There were. Here is the question posed to the staff:

Revelation 12:7–9 says Lucifer and his angels fought against God and were cast out of heaven. Since Lucifer was a highly intelligent creature — not to mention the fact that he had an intimate knowledge of God — I can’t comprehend how he (or any angel for that matter) could rebel against God. That seems to be utterly insane. What was the particular sin that Lucifer and the angels allied with him committed?

It should be noted that the “angelic” battle is described in St. John’s Apocalypse (Revelations). This is their response:

As for the particular sin the bad angels committed, many theologians believe that in their pre-fallen state the angels were given a foreknowledge of humans (who would be inferior to them), as well as a foreknowledge that God himself (the second Person of…