Why does the name Lucifer mean "Light-bringer"?
2006-11-07 03:27:56 · 21 answers · asked by anyone 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In modern and late Medieval Christian thought, Lucifer is a fallen angel commonly associated with Satan, the embodiment of evil and enemy of God. Lucifer is generally considered, based on the influence of Christian literature and legend, to have been a prominent archangel in heaven (although some contexts say he was a cherub or a seraph), prior to having been motivated by pride to rebel against God. When the rebellion failed, Lucifer was cast out of heaven, along with a third of the heavenly host, and came to reside on the world.
Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star", the planet Venus. The word Lucifer was the direct translation of the Greek eosphorus ("dawn-bearer"; cf. Greek phosphorus, "light-bearer") used by Jerome in the Vulgate, having mythologically same meaning as Prometheus which bring the light to the man. In that passage, Isaiah 14:12, it referred to one of the popular honorific titles of a Babylonian king; however, later interpretations of the text, and the influence of embellishments in works such as Dante's The Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, led to the common idea in Christian mythology and folklore that Lucifer was a poetic appellation of Satan.
2006-11-07 03:35:09 · answer #1 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lucifer was the name of Satan before he fell from Heaven. Supposedly before God created the Earth, Lucifer was the most beautiful angel in Heaven. He decided that he could overthrow God from power and tried to get the other angels on his side. God became angry with Lucifer and threw him and the angels that were on Lucifer's side out of Heaven. He also gave Lucifer rule of the earth (I don't know why he did that). Lucifer is now better known as the devil or as Satan, but he is still very beautiful (not the red guy with horns and a pitchfork that everyone thinks of).
2006-11-07 11:34:51 · answer #2 · answered by Katie L 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star", the planet Venus. The word Lucifer was the direct translation of the Greek eosphorus ("dawn-bearer"; cf. Greek phosphorus, "light-bearer") used by Jerome in the Vulgate, having mythologically same meaning as Prometheus which bring the light to the man.
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2006-11-07 11:35:11 · answer #3 · answered by Passionfire 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lucifer is the angel of all music and musical instruments. He is also the most handsome angel that God ever created.
I beleive that he is the morning star. I not sure.
i do not know what lucifer means.
Andi think that people give the devil more props than he really deserves. We human beings have the devil in existence.
If we would take responsibility for our own actions and stop blaming him everytime we do something wrong he would have no other choice but to humble himself.
2006-11-07 11:33:51 · answer #4 · answered by Osunwole Adeoyin 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Son of the morning, fallen angel, Satan, Lucifer, Devil, etc. There are so many names. He was in heaven before the creation of the earth and turned against God. There was a war and he was eventually kicked out of heaven and sent to the earth. So Revelations says.
2006-11-07 11:38:08 · answer #5 · answered by straightup 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.. No.. No..
Batman is the Dark Knight.
lucifer is the Angel that was cast from heaven after his defiance to God. Now he's said to roam our world in attempt to stear souls away from the good Lord.
I think he's a woman though.
2006-11-07 11:34:30 · answer #6 · answered by The Avatar 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The matching of Lucifer with the morning star rises not from the Hebrew bible but from classical mythology, a fount of bitter water not intended by God as our "fountain of living waters" (Jeremiah 17:13). Reference works concede that the switch is based on ".. .classical mythology for the planet Venus."
2006-11-07 11:34:46 · answer #7 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Originally Lucifer was one of God's angels. He decisded to venture out on his own, and believed that he can be like God, or surpasss Him.Other names for Lucifer are the devil, and Satan.
2006-11-07 11:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
lucifer is the Son of the morning he was an angel before his fall
2006-11-07 11:29:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lucifer is the King of Babylon.
2006-11-07 11:31:48 · answer #10 · answered by HandsOnCelibacy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋