What are the origins of the Lucifer myth?

Answer 1

Another answered... brother of Diana. Which is right. The one time it's used in the Bible is in reference to the King of Babylon (which is where so many Christians link it with Satan, but not once is Lucifer ever linked with Satan in the Bible). If one looks, they'll find the "Morning Star"... which is a title of Lucifer. Then again in Revelation, you'll find Jesus is called the Morning Star/Light Bringer. But the myth behind it all comes directly from Paganism.

I really wish these people would look into what they believe and quit just accepting what their pastors tell them.

Answer 2

LMAO! You really pissed off some people, didn't you. By the way, Chris, according to your own theory...God IS a myth. What a pitiful debate.

Here's an excerpt from wikipedia...

Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, lucis, "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 eosphoros ("dawn-bearer"; cf. Greek phosphoros, "light-bearer") used by Jerome in the Vulgate, having mythologically the same meaning as Prometheus who brought fire to humanity. 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.

Answer 3

Its not a myth? speak to people who have had face to face encounters, this is real. Lucifer was the covering angel of God in heaven and stood at the right hand of God at the throne, when pride set in and he wanted to be like God. he then convinced 1/3 of the angels to side with him. There was war in heaven and Luicifer and his angels were cast out. Now his goal is to decieve people just like he did with the 1/3 angels that God is not real and that he(Lucifer is all powerfull)

He will be destroyed at the second coming of God.

Answer 4

Christians are afraid to face the Lucifer fact, so they have been conspiring for centuries to make Lucifer a myth. They have not been successful.

Answer 5

A myth is a story.
It is passed from generation to generation.
If Lucifer is a story, then too is God.
So then, you are, and should have come to the conclusion that you can do whatever your heart desires.
You should not have any fears.
You should also have no morals, you don't need any.
You should be the dirtiest SOB that ever walked. ARE YOU?

Answer 6

The ancient Persian magi Zoroaster was the first to suggest an eternal spiritual battle between good and evil. I'm guessing his philosophy spread to the Semitic cultures who further adapted it using other cultural influences (Greek, Egyptian) to formulate the origins of the Light Bringer.

Answer 7

Lucifer myth? What is that? All I know is that the Bible tells us that old slew foot was evil from the get go.

Answer 8

I can't really remember so I'm not going to swear to this but it can be looked up to clarify.

I do not believe that story is even in the bible. I believe that it comes from the Book of Enoch along with the whole fallen angel story which was not one of the selected books that made it into the protestant bible.

Answer 9

Who says it's a myth?

Answer 10

All teaching of religions were meant to be taken symbolically or metaphorically but not literally. Men started dying when people started making concepts like good and evil into something real like God and Satan and then started believing they were real.