It gets really hard not to respond sometimes. I can see where you are coming from, I think, but I have to say it seems dangerous to me to think that God is as egocentric as the devil. I hope that nobody takes offense. I do believe that opposition was a necessary thing for us. But I also believe that God wants what is best for us, while Lucifer wanted to replace God and take all the glory for himself. My belief is that God wants us to strive to become as He is. God wants us to progress eternally, and never stop learning and growing and becoming. And He wants us to worship Him and remember Him because that is the path that we need to be on to return to Him.

I do believe that we fought a war in heaven. Satan proposed that he would have all of the power and would control us so that nobody would be lost, and we would all return. But the cost would have been terrible. He would have taken away our agency, and we would not have been able to progress. We would have all become his servants and never any more than that. Or we would have been like the animals, with no accountability for our choices. It is such a terrible plan because we have so much more potential, and all of our potential would have been denied us.