I know how Lucifer is said to have come about. He was an angel who defied God and was banished from heaven. But is Satan Lucifer? And what about the Devil? And are Satan and the Devil interchangable names?
2006-08-30 14:13:31 · 15 answers · asked by Ell 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yup. And Beelzebub.
2006-08-30 14:16:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes the Devil, Lucifer, and Satan is the same person,there just are many names for him (the devil).
2006-08-30 14:21:06 · answer #2 · answered by Brittany 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My understandings:
Lucifer was an archangel, one of the 3 archangels.
He was tasked to educate Adam and Eve.
However, he has gotten jealous, thinking for himself (i.e. selfish thoughts), he tempted Eve.
His feelings and actions are natural, however, he and both Adam and Eve knew what is right.
Sadly, Eve, then later Adam failed to adhere to the teachings that God has given.
This forced Lucifer to become Satan, or in other words, Adam and Eve 'created' Satan out of Lucifer by making a wrong choice.
2006-08-30 14:36:52 · answer #3 · answered by back2nature 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2006-08-30 14:22:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yep. Lucifer was his name when he was 'the most beautiful of all the angels'. Now he goes by Satan, I guess.
2006-08-30 14:18:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
did you know.. Lucifer means son of light..
supposedly when Satan was cast out of heaven, God changed his name to Perdition which means son of darkness
2006-08-30 14:19:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And beelzebub, old nick, he has a lot of names, but he is the one and same sneaky snake that was in the Garden.
2006-08-30 14:53:16 · answer #7 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
2006-08-30 14:18:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-08-30 14:17:06 · answer #9 · answered by Paul W 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You got it - interchangable names.
2006-08-30 14:16:38 · answer #10 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋