Molok wrote:Nightlion, Lucifer is a latin word, most often used to describe the planet venus. It is not a name for the devil. You should probably know that.
My Latin begins and ends with: Et tu Brute? Oh, wait: ides=fifteenth. E pluibus unim, (of many one)....hmmm... and all those Catholic lyrics.
Yeah, I can google.
David Grinspoon comments on the historical aspects of the word as follows: "The origin of the Judeo-Christian Devil as an angel fallen from heaven into the depths of hell is mirrored in the descent of Venus from shining morning star to the darkness below. This underworld demon, still feared today by people in many parts of the world, is also called Lucifer, which was originally a Latin name for Venus as a morning star." (Venus Revealed p. 17) Actually, Grinspoon should just refer to the "Christian Devil" since the Jews never believed in such a creature and still don't to this day. Not sure from the article who made this conclusion
http://www.lds-mormon.com/lucifer.shtmlProblem with this is that it's a load of crap, a jello mold of intellectual slight of hand. Satan, the opposer, the accuser, the adversary is acknowledged. By more than just the name, Satan, which is in fact a Hebrew word for accuser. Strong's Hebrew/Chaldee #7853-54
1 Chronicles 21: 1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.Plus all throughout the Book of Job.
Satan is the king of Babylon. The Book of Revelation establishes that. The confusion is all in the chosen metaphores is in the fact that they are metaphores. Great big masonic scholars want to fiddle with the metaphores and make toast of truth so that Lucifer becomes the one who bears our sins and not Christ. It is like accepting the interpretation of Anti-Mormons in all things LDS.
The spiritual dichotomy of the Old Testament was between those who remained the children of Belial/Satan/Lucifer/ and all false gods and kingdoms of this world, such as the sons of Eli who refused to know the Lord, as opposed to those who overcome the world to "know the Lord" who stay upon the Lord that he might circumcise the foreskins of their hearts and that the Lord might wrought a mighty change upon them and put a new heart in their inward parts that is filled with the love of God. (that is the gospel of Jesus Christ by the way, even in Old Testament times)
The frequently used term for
the wicked one was Belial. Strong's exhaustive Bible concordance (Hebrew 1100) relates the word to the Hebrew word for wickedness. However, in over four-fundred usages of the actual words; 'wicked, wickedness, and wickedly' found in the Bible, Belial is NEVER once used. It was reserved for and capitalized as the personification of wickedness; as calling the uncircumcised of heart the children of Belial.
Matt. 13: 19, 38, 49
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
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38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;In the New Testament:
2 Cor. 6: 15
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? The Greek definition of Strong's Concordance (Greek 955) says: .
..worthlessness... (as the Hebrew also did)...an epithet of Satan So long before Jerome used Lucifer the New Testament named Satan as Belial, a devil that the Old Testament Hebrews acknowledge as real.
Paul also refers to THAT WICKED as a personification of evil
2 Thessalonians 2: 8
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
The common reference to Satan in the New Testament was Beelzebub, the prince of the devils. This Greek word was only one click away from Belial in Strong's (954) ...
as from the Chaldean for dung god, a name for Satan... The Jews very much acknowledged both devils and Satan as real.
Luke 11: 15, 18-19
15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.Satan in the Greek was Satanas: the accuser
As for both Lucifer and Christ both referred to as the morning star, so what? Lucifer was in authority with God BEFORE he fell. He was one of the stars of heaven ( of whom he took one third with him when he fell) even a son or the morning. As Christ also is in authority with God even the Day Star that arises in our hearts the bright and morning star one who cannot fail, so never shall he fall.