lucifer and satan?

Question

so if lucifer (the angel) was so beautiful and perfect why do we dipict the devil (the same guy) as being hediously ugly?

Answer 1

I like pancakes and french toast.

That statement is as valid an answer as anything else I could come up with on this one.

Answer 2

Hmm ... there is actually a bit of astrosophy to your answer ...

One has to bare in mind- the Bible alludes to Satan in Job ...and devils that Jesus exorcised .. but Devil and Satan are never goat, or of any ideas from the Bible per se .. so they come abit from pseudigraphia- like 'Book of Enoch' .. which influenced Aquinas and Dante and Milton .. But once again descriptions are actually vague ...

So eventually you have to consider the Christian faith growing from minority to majority among many varied languages, cultures and pagan faiths ...

Meaning Norse Runic stuff ... Thessalian ... Hellenic ...Visigothic ...Celtic ... to name a few ... and a number of these had vastly varied subgroups ...

The standard Satan devil tends to be overlaid on a Northern paternal stag or goat God that had many forms ... He went from being a venerated Northern fertility figure ... to becoming the bane and scapegoat of all Christians and their conceptions of Hell... In some cases there were mythic cycles that had him as a smithgod- and therefore an underworldly Vulcanlike aspect was innate to him in some of these cultures already ...

Lucifer is entirely different ... and very often had to do with Venus worship ... The morning and evening star ...harbinger of dawn ... the torchbearer ... a very Promethean figure ... as exemplified by Loge in Nordic mythology, etc ... This figure is more a "son of a skyfather:" god gone prodigal .. and as a youth ...usually prettier in mien and countenance ... therefore "paternity" is not usually an aspect of Lucifer ... but more a glorious son ...

Making Lucifer an "angel" is both Miltonian ... and synthetic ... there were Visigothic remnants in France ..that were put down in Albigensian heresies for Lucifer- morningstar worship ... but fitting these to Judaeochristian angelogy is entirely a blend separate from its actual cultural origins ... But Christians made nemeses out of anything that was not their faith ...

Answer 3

God is good and creates beautiful things. Satan is evil and evil takes a toll on even the most beautiful things. I think that is why some people say that beauty is only skin deep. Have you ever met someone that was beautiful and found that their spirit was ugly and as you continue to be around them that beauty (in your eye sight) diminishes. Satan has been evil for a long time. That kind internal ugliness takes a toll on the external beauty and create a reflection of what's on the inside.

Answer 4

lucifer was the leader of the second "group" of angels (angels have been created by God before Adam); thre were 9 "groups" of angels (at present are only 8 - it is say , that the world will come to an end when this group will be "re-filled" with the holly people)
he was very beutiful , very shinny as any angel of the Bright Light is; due to an only tought of pride (he considered that the is able to be as the God is) ;he was throw-out from the Heven into the Hell togather with those angels from his group (who were his affiliates); from that moment he and the others beacome angels of the Dark (they become all blacks and scaring); Lucifer is "tied-up" in the bottom of the Hell, but the his angels are free on the earth to "tempt" the people (of course, with the God permission);
it is say, that before the end , lucifer will be un-tied and live free on the earth before the The Second Comming of Iisus Hristos, when world as we know now will ceased and "a new land and a new sky" shall come.
All the best,
angelica

Answer 5

So god made lucifer? Correct? So then god made evil? Correct? So does this perfect being god wake up one day and decide that being perfect with no problems is just boring? So he makes a race called angels and casts them down when they rebel? So he is still bored and he makes another race called man so that his first creation the fallen angels have someone to torment and bother? So god decides he needs a real miserable place called hell to send all these bad beings? All incredibly stupid or a ploy by people through the ages to control other people (power) and control the wealth that goes with such power?

Answer 6

In the Pasion of the Christ, I thought they cast the perfect satan, because 'he' was very delicate and graceful (if not creepy) and he works subtly, he doesn't hit people over the head with his intentions. So you are absolutely right, the whole red-horned, spiky tailed hoved image we have is so far out of whack it's not even funny. Mankind are obssessed with the aesthetic, and if something is beautiful, it can't possibly be bad, and if it's hideous, it can't possibly be good.

If a pedophile wanted to lure a little girl into his car, he wouldn't exactly put on a scary mask and growl at her like an animal, would he? Satan works on the same principles. You don't convince people by scaring them, you do so by seducing them.

Answer 7

What's interesting is the fact that Lucifer (the light bearer, the morning star, the horned one) is a pagan deity, somewhat like Pan, that was worshiped for years, so when christians wanted to convert the pagans they made Lucifer and Satan the same being. Who would want to worship a negative deity?

Answer 8

Good question! Satan is smart enough to make people believe he is harmless however the truth is that he is a liar and a murderer. For a good description of Satan read Ezekiel Ch.28 V13-19 from which we note that apart from being very beautiful, he is also full of wisdom.

Answer 9

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of God plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 10

because we are biased. we often judge ugly as bad and beautiful as good, black as wrong and white as right. It's human nature. But the sad fact is that we get decieved more often by shining, beautiful, gorgeous people or whatever. How many of us thinks of lustful things on a very ugly girl or guy?

FYI, satan's name actually means the great deciever.

Answer 11

Hollywood