http://www.tektonics.org/gk/heylucy.html Read this and draw your own conclusion : ) Personally, I believe that he is.

No, Lucifer is not Satan in Satanism. Satan is an allegory representing many ideas. Supporting verses from the Bible: The Nine Satanic Statements from The Satanic Bible, ©1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey 1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence! 2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams! 3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit! 4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates! 5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek! 6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires! 7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all! 8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification! 9. Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years! This is the Satanism category; therefore, the Bible would refer to the Satanic Bible, and answers would address Satanism and a Satanic paradigm. If you want answers about what CHRISTIANS believe about Satan and Lucifer referencing the Christian Bible, please put your question in the CHRISTIAN category.

Hard to say. Certainly the being that Westerners typically mean when they say "Lucifer" is the same being they mean when they say "Satan." In the Bible, though, it is not so clear. The first use of the word satan ("the accuser") is in the book of Job (1:6), in which it is not used as a name so much as a title--some kind of celestial prosecuting attorney. Certainly, his actions are "satanic" enough that most people feel comfortable identifying him as the Devil, and Jesus' words in the New Testament agree. (Luke 10:18, for instance) The word Lucifer comes from the Latin Vulgate, in which Jerome translated a word meaning "shining one" as "lightbringer," which in Latin is lucifer. However, the passage in which this word appears, Isaiah 14:12, is referring to King Nebuchadnezzar. Furthermore, in the Revelation, the "morning star" or "shining one" is Christ, which would make the use of that particular image for the Devil puzzling. Of course, that description is given in a different language than Isaiah, so it's not terribly definitive.

The name Lucifer occurs once in the Scriptures and only in some versions of the Bible. For example, the King James Version renders Isaiah 14:12: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!” The Hebrew word translated “Lucifer” means “shining one.” The Septuagint uses the Greek word that means “bringer of dawn.” Hence, some translations render the original Hebrew “morning star” or “Daystar.” But Jerome’s Latin Vulgate uses “Lucifer” (light bearer), and this accounts for the appearance of that term in various versions of the Bible. Who is this Lucifer? The expression “shining one,” or “Lucifer,” is found in what Isaiah prophetically commanded the Israelites to pronounce as a “proverbial saying against the king of Babylon.” Thus, it is part of a saying primarily directed at the Babylonian dynasty. That the description “shining one” is given to a man and not to a spirit creature is further seen by the statement: “Down to Sheol you will be brought.” Sheol is the common grave of mankind—not a place occupied by Satan the Devil. Moreover, those seeing Lucifer brought into this condition ask: “Is this the man that was agitating the earth?” Clearly, “Lucifer” refers to a human, not to a spirit creature.—Isaiah 14:4, 15, 16.

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