Where does the "Lucifer" myth come from originally?
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It came from other religions so new converts would easily be able to convert. \n\nFYI eternal damnation dose not exist in Judaism either and we do not say that a person must be Jewish to get "saved"
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The angels apparantly have always existed and are eternal and immortal.  They have many amazing powers such as flight, strength, martial skill, control of flames etc and as such are not made of the same blood, flesh and bones as mortal things.\nSatan is only mentioned once in the Bible by this name (in Job if I remember correctly), and in the oldest copy of this text actually it says Satans. (pleural!).  The word Satan has been added in later editions to other sections of the Bible but this is not a direct traslation from the origial text.  The word Satan comes from Shaitan (the adversary) which in turn comes from an older term Shai-it-ian which is a lesser evil spirit from the desert who commits minor acts of cruety to bring adveristy and pain.  Thus Satan is probably not an accurate name for the Devil /Lucifer.  The Devil is, tradiionally a fallen angel, a traitor to God and an outcast from Heaven.  The book of Enoch describes the fallen angels in detail.\nTraditionally daemons are not totally mortal either -  they are semi-astral creatures and composed of energies, hatred, pain and bizarre materials like iron and acids.\nAs for Djinns I think they made of magic and can make themselves corporeal, etherial or manifest as a wind.
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The devil is identified as the goat enclosed within a downpointing pentagram.  This became the official sigil of the Church of Satan, but they did not invent this sign; nor is this sign ancient.\n\nThe idol of a winged goat-man with a reversed pentagram on its head is called Baphomet, etymologically deriving its name from eastern cultures (possible Arabic meaning "Father of Understanding" or Seat of Understanding").  It first became known thanks to the Knights Templars and their famous trial for idolatry.  \n\nThere have been some scholars who beleive Christianity co-opted the figure of Dionysus, Greek God of wine, ecstacy and divine life, to suppress his worship by likening him to Satan.  Be/c Dionysus was also known as Dionysus Soter, Dionysus Eleftherios, etc (Dionysus Savior, Dionysus Liberator) because he was the main figure int he Eleusinian Mysteries and his function was to grant salvation to the "soul"..... just as Jesus would come to pronounce in later centuries, early Christian circles co-opted the imagery of his known familiars (goats, namely satyrs, mythical half man-half goat figures) and likened it to a representation of Satan to crush the Dionysian worship.\n\nThe pentagram is an ancient symbol, best known from the Pythagoreans, but used by many cultures in antiquity....  Where the Pythagoreans used the words Hygeia in each of the quarters of the pentagram, meaning Good Health, or a loose form of the contemporary pagan "BLESSED BE", the Pentagram was reversed by Satanists to demonstrate the anti-world and all of the qualities advocated by their "reversing" or ridiculing or literally "turning the mainstream conception of things on its head".  They include other lettering in the place of HYGEIA....\n\nIn any event,\nFor a good article, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet
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It was originally created for Satan and his angels.
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Hello,\n\nI will tell what is really going on there.\n\nOkay, and this is for real, Aliens, as many Americans know them to be called (but they are really Sons of God, Fallen Angels or Nephilim) have been coming to Earth since the beginning of time. Well, when Lucifer rejected God and Lucifer and 1/3 of his angles fell to Earth.\n\nHave you noticed how there is more and more "Alien" activity lately? This is of no coincidence. Lucifer knows his time on Earth is short and he and his fallen angels have a limited time to deceive and destroy God's people.\n\nHave you ever read anything on Fallen Angels or the Nephilim? Here are some websites on who and what they are.\n\nSo, to answer your question, our government has been in cahoots, yes cahoots, with the Fallen Angels since the 1940's and maybe before that time.\n\nHere is a website that shows all the American Presidents who have known about UFOs.\n\nHope this information helps you...............................  :-)
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Lucifer was the Anointed Cherub. Anointed means to be set apart for Gods Divine purpose. It also means "bestowal of Gods divine favor", and "appointment to a special place or function."\n\nGod had given Satan a certain amount of power and authority. But he perverted that power. Lucifer wanted to exalt himself above God... rather than "just" being the Angel of God.
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Well, since the Jews didn't have a concept of hell, I'm guessing that early Christianity probably picked it up from the Greek Hades. The name Hell, however, originally stems from the name for the Norse underworld, Hel. Since English is a Germanic language, it makes sense that the idea for the Christian underworld would borrow that name.
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the "devil" is just part of the whole "god" myth,im not afraid of myths
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Not even a little bit. Even if we assume that the original Hebrew scripture was the inspired word of God, it's been hopelessly corrupted since then by all sorts of freaks, each thinking he was "divinely inspired". For example, St Jerome added the word "Lucifer" as the direct translation of a Babylonian king whose name happened to mean "morning star". Now, many people honestly believe that Lucifer is a synonym for Satan. It's not. It's the Latin word for "morning star", nothing more.\n\nYou can either have a God who is infallible, or you can have a Bible that is the direct word of God. You can't have both.
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There are Seraphim and Cherubiem. Lucifer (Satan) was one of the Cherubim. The guardian angels are probably cherubim also.
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No one knows where it really comes from.  Many people have hypotheses, but nothing definitive & irrefutable.  I have heard it myself & don't care to ever again.  It was creepy.
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I highly doubt that most people are; they always view Lucifer as a demonic creature (like that in my avatar). Forgetting that he is the master of deception. Satan can be a beautiful woman or a monk for that matter. Satan can be the stray cat that you feed everyday. Lest we forget, satan is a fallen "angel". He knows the scripture "better" than you and that's a fact. One must rely on The Omnipotent for the wisdom to notice the difference and the vigor to overcome. Dominus Vobiscum.\n\nexcellent question.
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"Afraid that those other gods you claim didn't exsist just might actually have existed so you have to shroud them in lies?"\n\nYep, that's pretty much the way it happened. The emerging Catholic Church made a practice of declaring that all Pagan Gods were actually demons. Which was nothing more than yet another pronouncement by a man, who of course claimed it was "from God" and everyone believed him. Well, not everyone, but enough that those who didn't were grossly outnumbered.
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Why is this question in the mythology section?\n\nI recomend a search engine.
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Fallen angels are demons that went with Lucifer- otherwise known as the angel of light,father of lies, satan- when God cast them from heaven into h-ll. God sent them their because Lucifer wanted to be god, he was the most marvelest of all angels, and his pride took him too far. All of those angels that supported lucifer went with him into the lake of fire "H-ll".
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lucifer\n\nSatan (שָׂטָן Standard Hebrew Satan, Greek σατᾶν sátan, from the proper name Σατανάς Sátanas, Tiberian Hebrew Śāṭān; Aramaic שִׂטְנָא Śaṭanâ; Arabic شيطان Shaitan: both words mean "Adversary; accuser"; derived from the Semitic root šṭn, which carries the semantics of opposing, obstructing, and of being adverse) is a Judeo-Christian term which is, together with the Islamic term Shaitan, traditionally applied to an angel, demon, or minor god in many religions. The idea of this ultimate agent of evil as the Prince of Darkness was most likely introduced by the Iranian (Persian) prophet Zoroaster, whose ideas would later influence Judeo-Christian beliefs[1] Although Zoroaster’s beliefs concentrated on the duality and struggle between ultimate good and ultimate evil, it was the Judaic adaptation of these beliefs which portrayed Satan as the inferior enemy of God (Zoroaster saw the enemy as also omnipotent). Satan plays various roles in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha and the New Testament. In the Hebrew Bible, Satan is an angel that God uses to test man for various reasons usually dealing with his level of piety (e.g. the test in the Book of Job). In the Apocrypha and New Testament, Satan is portrayed as an evil, rebellious demon that is the enemy of God and mankind. However, in both Jewish and Christian theology Satan is not understood as a true equal to God (as he is perhaps so seen in Zoroastrianism, depending on whether one considers Ahura Mazda or Zurvan to be the proper parallel to the trinity)[citation needed] Since both religions are intentionally monotheistic, Satan is seen, rather, as a creature created by God--originally good, but now fallen of his own choosing. This prevents a true dualism in both religions. Good is the original status of all things made by God. Corruption comes later at the hand of created moral agents (consider Augustine's notion of privation here). Thus Satan is always under God's providential control and at times even his unwilling agent.\n\nIn Christio-Islamic tradition, Satan is generally viewed as a preternatural that is the central embodiment of evil.[citation needed] Satan is also commonly known as the Devil (Latin Diábolus, Diaboli, from Greek Διάβολος Diábolos, meaning slanderer), the "Prince of Darkness," Beelzebub (direct translation is "Lord of the Flies"), Belial, Mephistopheles, and Lucifer ("lightbringer").\n\nIn the Talmud and some works of Kabbalah, Satan is sometimes called Samael; however most Jewish literature is of the opinion that Samael is a separate angel.[citation needed] In the fields of angelology and demonology these different names sometimes refer to a number of different angels and demons, and there is significant disagreement as to whether any of these entities are actually evil.[citation needed]\n\nIn Islam, Iblīs (Arabic إبليس), is the primary devil. He appears more often in the Qur'an as being the Shaitan: Iblis is mentioned 11 times, and Shaitan "al-Shaitaan" ‏‏(الشيطان) 87 times. He is chief of the spirits of evil, and his personality is similar to that of the devil in Christianity. He suffered from pride and refused to bow down to Adam at Allah's command. He subsequently rebelled against Allah, and was therefore thrown out of Heaven, and was henceforth known as Shaitan.[citation needed]
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Satan isn't really one single being in the bible. Like black_hole_gravity said, it means "adversary" and it's more of a title than a name. Although Lucifer still is a villain in christian mythology. He did rebel against god in the story.