Is Lucifer the Devil?

Question

Is the bible character Lucifer the same person/entity as the Devil/Satan? If so, can you please site an example in the bible or passage or something. According to The Secret History of Lucifer, Lucifer is just a "fallen angel"... that doesn't suggest much about him being and incarnation of evil. Not to mention what his name means. Anyway, is he or is he not?

Answer 1

Yes. Isaiah 14:12

To me this makes perfect sense... he was one of Heavenly Father's highest angels(children) and after knowing God better than most he turned his back on God and tried to get everyone else to too. He took 1/3 of the angels of heaven with him. He's is horribly miserable and all he wants is everyone els to be miserable with him.

Answer 2

Satan was created as a holy angel. Isaiah 14:12 possibly gives Satan’s pre-fall name as Lucifer. Ezekiel 28:12-14 describes Satan as having been created a cherubim, and was apparently the highest created angel. He became arrogant in his beauty and status, and decided he wanted to sit on a throne above that of God (Isaiah 14:13-14; Ezekiel 28:15; 1 Timothy 3:6). Satan’s pride led to his fall. Notice the many “I will…” statements in Isaiah 14:12-15. Because of his sin, God threw Satan out of heaven.

Satan became the ruler of this world that functions apart from God, and the prince of the power of the air (John 12:31; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2). He is an accuser (Revelation 12:10), a tempter (Matthew 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:5), and a deceiver (Genesis 3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:3). His very name means adversary or “one who opposes.” Another name used for Satan, the devil, means “slanderer.”

Answer 3

After reading a large part of the Bible, I was curious about this myself. I asked a friend who is a Baptist pastor. His answer was essentially, "we don't really know, but we think that Lucifer is the Devil".

I thought that was a pretty honest answer, because it isn't made abundantly clear (in my opinion) in the Bible just who Lucifer, Satan, the devil, and the serpent are, if they were one being, or many different entities.

Answer 4

Judaism did not grow up in a vacuum. It grew in close contact with Persia, where the dominant religion of the time was Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism). These people believed that there were two divine brothers, one all good (Ahura Mazda) and one who was all evil (Angra Mainyu). They were locked in eternal combat. This was a clever way of distancing evil from God. After many years when Jews finally became monotheistic, their God was all good, so they also needed to blame someone for evil, and that entity was Shaitan (whose name means "The adversary"). But he was the tempter, not someone who ruled an entire kingdom called Hell filled with sadistic demons. He never occupied a major place in Judaism. Christians ran wild with the idea of Satan; here was the perfect way to shift responsibility from God to a rebellious angel. By logic God created evil, but the Christians couldn't square this with their notion of an absolutely good God. The problem with this myth is that angels have no free will, so how could Satan have rebelled to begin with.? Lucifer has an entirely different root. As all Christians know the word means Light Bringer. This is a very curious name for a prince of darkness. In the Roman world at the time Lucifer was the Morning Star, meaning the planet Venus. Venus of course was the goddess whose sole divine duty was coupling and who fostered coupling wherever she went. This was a horror to the Christians, who regarded sex outside marriage as a terrible sin. St. Augustine of Hippo in about 420 c.e. wrote that the Original Sin was lust. After that lust itself became sinful - necessary, but sinful. What a weird religion Catholicism was.

Answer 5

Isaiah 14:12 possibly gives Satan’s pre-fall name as Lucifer.

Answer 6

No. There is absolutely no Biblical evidence that "Lucifer" is the same as "Satan". This is pure Christian mythology and inter-Testamental mythology. It is not Biblical at all.

Like the "Rapture" (which the majority of Christians don't believe in) the mythology of "Satan" is woven together from a series of otherwise unrelated verses.

...The snake in Genesis, the Morning Star in Isaiah (Lucifer), the King of Tyre, the literary device named "Satan" in Job, the Book of Enoch (which isn't even in the Bible!!!!), the story of War in Heaven told by Jesus, the "anti-christs" (plural) or those who are against Christ in the Letters of John, together with the Great Beast, Whore, and False Prophet of Revelations.

Mix them all together in a big pot of Rationalization and Revisionism, and wala! You have the modern-day Christian version of the Devil!!!!!

Most Christians (who have never actually read the Bible for themselves) find such a though ghastly. I must be the Anti-Christ myself for suggesting that Lucifer is not Satan. After all, it's what they've been taught in Sunday School since they were old enough to sit up by themselves. But I say again, there is NO BIBLICAL support for saying that Lucifer is Satan. And I would give $1,000 to anyone you can prove otherwise.

Answer 7

Yes, Lucifer is another name for Satan

Answer 8

Yes Lucifer is the same person/entity as the Devil/Satan.

Isaiah 14:12 - 18 12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

Jesus describes how he saw Satan cast out of heaven in Luke 10:18 And he (Jesus) said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Revelations 12:9 says this "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

Below is a dictinary.com link about Lucifer.

Lucifer's sin was pride and wanting to be worshipped like God, before all the holy angels in heaven.

If you read in the Bible the Devil was the one speaking through the snake that caused man's first parents to disobey God by way of the serpent. And Jesus was tempted by the Satan 3 times (Matthew 4:1 "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.". Also in Luke 22:3 "Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

In fact the lake of fire was made for the Devill and his angels it says in Matthew 25:41 "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels..."

So the Satan/Devil is very evil and is an enemy of God.

Answer 9

The name Lucifer is suggestive of the nature of Satan to the Judeo/Christian mind. "Light Bringer" symbolizes the notion of him bringing knowledge to Man, the very thing which brought on the Fall.

He is much akin (not suprisingly since the story was pretty much lifted), to Prometheus, who brought men fire and thus betrayed Zeus and the other gods.

Answer 10

There are no "fallen" angels. Angels are simply God's messengers.

There is no evil god called the devil. Each of us struggles with our evil inclination as we strive to be holy.
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