how did lucifer get associated with the name satan?

Answer 1

When the christians wanted to get more followers, they had to make an evil demon type to blame crap on.. they took the satan from one place (who was more like a DA than a D- mon..) and part of another story about a contemporary king, and added a few things, a bit later, you get a red, horned, horny, evil demon that makes you do bad things...

Answer 2

Lucifer means light bearer in Latin. it was also a Roman term for Venus, literally morning star. It was first used in the Vulgate of St Jerome version of the Bible

Satan means adversary or accuser in Hebrew.

After Lucifer was cast out of Heaven, he was referred to as Satan.

Some modern Christian theology does not support this interpretation because the Old Testament does not include a direct account of Satan's fall from grace.

Answer 3

Basically, the Hebrew faith referred to an Angel, Satan, who challenged God and was punished. A metaphor using the path of Venus across the sky was used to poetically illustrate his fall . . . common folk, centuries later, didn't understand the Latin translation of the hebrew term for "morning star", and the fact that several terms were used for the same word (not uncommon, as Rome. . . being a very poetry minded culture . . . often had several poetic terms for one thing) did not help. Thus the metaphor was lost on these people and was taken literally, therefore "Lucifer" became the name of the angel whom the Hebrew traditions knew as Satan.
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A passage in the Bible refernces the fall of "the Morning Star" in relation to the fall of the proud (as of yet, unamed) angel who defied God. The earliest Latin translations used the term Lucifer to refer to the morning star; it is now known that Lucifer was a poetic name for Venus in Latin and meant something along the lines of "light bearer". It is agreed by many modern theologians that the reference to Lucifer was probably a metaphor for how the angel went from being "God's brightest and most beautiful angel" (as Venus is the first star to rise in the morning) to a pitiful fallen sight (as Venus is also the first star to fall in the evening). The word lucifer is used elsewhere in early renditions of the Bible: it describes the Morning Star (the planet Venus), the "light of the morning" (Job 11:17); the constellations (Job 38:32) and "the aurora" (Psalms 109:3). In the New Testament, Jesus Christ (in II Peter 1:19) is associated with the "morning star" . . . in modern translations this is often refered to as either "Morning Star" or "Phosphoros", but in old English, Latin, and German texts the term "Lucifer" is used.
The same Hebrew term (literally meaning "Morning Star") that was translated into "Lucifer" in some instances was, in different contexts, translated differently:
in Revelation:
Rev 2:28 And I will give him the morning star (aster proinos).
Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star (aster orthrinos)
In the eastern churches, where Greek was the language the Bible was most often translated into, the universal term that was used was "Heosphorus"


Satan, from the Hebrew word for "accuser" or "adversary" (derived from a Northwest Semitic root meaning "to be hostile", "to accuse") is a term with its origins in the Abrahamic faiths which is traditionally applied to a very specific angel. Ha-Satan is the accuser: a member of the divine council, who challenged the religious faith of humans, especially in the books of Job and Zechariah. Religious belief systems other than Judaism relate this term to a demon, a rebellious fallen angel, devil, minor god and idolatry, or as an allegory for evil.

Answer 4

I recommend researching the name Lucifer. It only appears in some bibles and is usually accepted as a really bad mistranslation of the phrase "Barer of the Light" or something like that. When Lucifer is used, it's not really a person, but a type of person.

Answer 5

He was given this name by his rebellion and kicked out of heaven to rule over this world and thereby given the name satan.

Answer 6

Satan is the Anglo-Saxon bastardization of the Arabic word Shaitan which is the devil.

Answer 7

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