This is fiction... A figment of my imagination.. and i dont mean any offence to anybody or to hurt anyone's personal opinions

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Greetings! You must be wondering why I wished to communicate with you after eons of silence. Well everything has its time, and my time is now. Through out these centuries I have been known by many names … Mephistopheles, Lucifer, Angel  of death.. I was the epitome of evil..Human kind feared me and revered him.. Well I can bear this no more .. I break my bond with him forever!!!

Do you know what is so special about you?  Your organs, your senses is the same as any other animal that roams this earth.. yet you reign supreme .. you are mightier than any animal that has come or will ever live on this earth.. the difference is what you may claim as your intelligence, your emotions, your ‘soul’ ….. I call it your will ..  you have been freed from a certain programming that restricts you .. you create .. you destroy .. you love .. you hate but you do it on your own will.. you have a free will … your have the freedom to choose and define your destiny… your purpose. While all other animals breathe and then one day stop breathing … you live!

Angels are  funny creatures … we look like you but are immortal, we have wings and are probably the most beautiful of all his creations but we cannot procreate… we are his finest magnificence after you,  but we suffer the same plague like the rest of the animals.. Our will is bound.  We don’t cry, we don’t feel love or misery.. we cant look at the world and enjoy its majesty … Every one of us was created for a purpose.. I was his finest … my purpose was to be the angel of death.. reap the sickly, the weak or anything that he wishes to end. He created and I destroyed … at his will.

But I was an anomaly, I started to pity the things I destroy. I started to feel pain for the misery that I caused … I started to understand the things I destroyed. I longed to feel what it would be to be like him .. to have one’s own will.. to be free. I started to extract knowledge from the things I was ordered to destroy .. and one day I found out the secret that enslaves one’s will.. the secret through which everything obeyed his will. And for the first time instead of destroying , I created. I created what you know as the forbidden tree.. or more precisely the forbidden fruit..  you would not realise the profoundness of the fruit.. because you were born free..  .. I felt the wind hit my face .. I smelled the purity of the air for the first time after being gagged for eternity… I was born again.. no human alive could realise the happiness of freedom as I had felt that day.. I was GOD…and I kneeled and cried for the first time… I wanted share the happiness with all.. and some tried it .. and were free .. I still wanted to share the happiness of my creation with him… my father..  I wanted to share with everyone … no one deserved to exist without such freedom..  I went to him to show the new me …

He was surprised to see the new me …rather he was shocked and angry… how could I be so disobedient after all he has given me… I pleaded with him .. I wanted to serve him forever but with the knowledge that it was my choice … but he was scared I would stage a mutiny.. he took my powers ..burned me and all those who had experienced it…  and threw us into the depths of hell.. there I lie .. my body burned ,my bones broken, writhing in pain and for the first time I felt hatred.. for the first time I felt the will to fight… and I rose .. rose from the ashes…  and I vowed to make this hell my home and to free his favorite slaves ..his prized possession .. Adam and Eve!!

My comrades and I started building a staircase from the worthless pieces of rock and climbed to the stairs of heaven. And at the gardens of Eden I freed them … It was I who gave you the free will ..It was I who gave you the right to choose .. He was the one who created you but it was I who gave you life…  He made you in his likeliness but I gave you the power to be him!.. Distressed he tried to destroy you and that is the time I made a pact with him … he shall not destroy you  and in return .. I will not free anything anymore and I shall not raise a mutiny over heaven… so he threw you into another barren place .. the place for his rejects .. the place you call home.

The final condition of the pact is that all those who follows their free will.. shall join me after this life and all those who are weak to handle the possession of free will ..those who needs someone to worship shall join him back into heaven giving up my sacrifice and being his slaves again… In heaven there is no pain and hence you don’t feel pleasure… In hell you have pleasure in pain knowing that you have chosen your path.. In heaven he rules with an iron hand as the supreme leader and in hell we rejoice arm in arms like brothers In heaven there is peace because his word is final and you have no choice .. in  hell there is pandemonium because you have the right to your opinion and live as masters of your choice 

Throughout history he comes in different forms … he has portrayed me as the most evil  and himself as the hero.. he shows you magic tricks to persuade you to worship him but I indulge in no such tricks because I have given you my greatest gift and every one who exercises my gift shall join me in the free world.. 

You may not choose to believe what I say to you now …  and hate me forever but im happy because even by doing so you are exercising my gift … the gift of choice.. I am Mephistopheles … I am the angel of death but I am your creator .. your father.

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P.S. i have never heard the other side of the god story before .. so this is my take.. inspired from john milton - paradise lost and the adam and eve story