What do ya'll think about Lucifer?

Question

This question goes out to questions. Everyone else will say he doesn't exist so don't worry. I don't need that and your wasting my time and your own.

I think he's the prettiest creation ever. Even says so in the bible somewhere. It's a sad antagonist story. He represents what soceity is now. So arrogant and proud yet foolish. How do you feel about this guy? Do you feel sorry for him? How should we as Christians feel about him.

Answer 1

Lucifer the Light giver. He has several names, but only one crime. He gave humans fire and its light.


When you really start digging you'll find that Prometheus is one of the several minor Gods who all got in trouble with a chief God over the same thing. Where Prometheus is a name Greek in origin and was punished by Zeus, the name Lucifer is Latin in origin. Both are attached to fire, light, and in many books the Morning Star. This is the reason the usual Old testament Bible quotes that use Lucifer are rather suspect as the ancient Hebrew writers would not use a Latin derived name for a "Creation" archangel.

Answer 2

There are many misunderstandings about who Lucifer is in relation the Christian Bible.

First of all Lucifer was first written in pre-Christian Roman poetry as the 'Light Bringer.' In fact that what his name actually means. He was the planet that we now call 'Venus.' In the old Roman stories it was believed that he could not reach the height of the Jupiter whose light crossed the entire sky. Instead Lucifer would only rise to a certain point in the eastern and western horizon.

In the Christian Bible he is confused with Jesus' role as the 'Morning Star.' He is also used as a mock description of the king of Babylon falling from his throne.

Many centuries ago a monk was commissioned by the Pope to investigate the matter. The monk returned with his answer which was that Jesus and Lucifer were the same person. The monk was thrown into prison until he recanted his findings.

So, Lucifer is not a Christian entity at all. He simply found his way into Christian scriptures after Rome gave Christianity its blessing as the official state religion by the authority of the Roman Emperer Constantine.

So, in conclusion, Lucifer is not the devil. Nor, has he ever been associated with evil besides what modern Christians have labeled him as. Perhaps Jesus is the incarnation of Lucifer. Remember the old saying, "The gods of an old religion frequently become the devils of a new."

Answer 3

All right, look. The myth of Lucifer, the Light Bringer, which DOES predate the Biblical reference, was used as an imaginative explanation of why the planet Venus - the brightest object in the night sky - never ascends up into the heights of the heavens but merely hovers above the horizon and then drops down.

Now, when St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin, he made a conscious choice to use the name "Lucifer" in reference to an ancient king who seemed to rise so brightly but was ultimately destined to fall before he could ascend to real glory. Get it? It was like a paraphrase, a translator's choice meant to conjure an allusion in the reader's mind.

Now the fact that one translated verse has been taken out of its original context and applied to Satan is not St. Jerome's fault. This kind of interpretive license was common in dark age and early medieval Judaism and Christianity. But then a whole Christian mythology then developed around the name Lucifer which had nothing to do with the original intent.

Answer 4

Ha Shatan has been called many names, Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub, Belial, Mephistopheles, Samael, The Devil and Lucifer are a few.

Lucifer is my least favorite, because Jerome was the first to call him that, in the Latin Vulgate and that text, Isaiah 14:12 was really speaking of a man named Heylel, who was the great-grandson of Noah. Not Ha Shatan at all!

Jerome, in the L.V., used Lucifer two more times, niether were used in eng. scripture. In 2 Peter 1:9, Jerome also uses the name Lucifer for Yahoshua (Jesus).
In Job 11:17, Jerome, they say calls the star of Bethlehem, lucifer.

By Jerome's authority, you, then should call Jesus, Lucifer too.

Answer 5

I don't believe in the thought that lucifer is actually a physical representation, more a view on the darker sude of people's nature, where someone will use to describe the ill actions of another as "being in league with the devil."

Really, I quite like the idea of a lucifer, though not as any manifestation, more a spiritual concept of what we all try to hide from others in our lives.

Answer 6

Christianity hates science. (Not necessarily all individuals, but this is certainly true as a trend throughout history.) Lucifer, from luc=light and fer=bringer, the bringer of light, shed the light of science on the darkness of mankind and their religion. As science is evil, lucifer is therefore thought of by many Christians as evil.

Answer 7

Isaiah 14:12-14.
You can see the selfishness and pride of his 5 "I"s.

Answer 8

Lucifer, in my interpretation of the mythology, brought knowledge, wisdom, and enlightenment to humankind. He freed us from the ignorance we were enslaved in.

Answer 9

LUCIFER IS THE DEVIL PEOPLE! LIKE SATAN! LIKE EVERYTHING THAT IS BAD. He is the one that tempted eve to eat the forbidden fruit. He IS the Anti-Christ.

Answer 10

the ultimate sympathetic anti-hero--an angel who cares so much about humanity and yet is cursed by god to torment them--tears your heart out!