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The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...
The devil is generally identified with Satan, the accuser in the Book of Job. [92] Only rarely are Satan and the devil depicted as separate entities. [93] Much of the lore of the devil is not biblical. It stems from post-medieval Christian expansions on the scriptures influenced by medieval and pre-medieval popular mythology. [94]
The Gospel of John only uses the name Satan three times. [88] In John 8:44, Jesus says that his Jewish or Judean enemies are the children of the Devil rather than the children of Abraham. [88] The same verse describes the Devil as "a man-killer from the beginning" [88] and "a liar and the father of lying."
The Luciferian label—in the sense of Lucifer-worshipper—was first used in the Gesta Treverorum in 1231 for a religious circle led by a woman named Lucardis (Luckhardis). It was said that in private she lamented the fall of Lucifer (Satan) and yearned for his restoration to heavenly rule. The sect was exposed by the Papal Inquisition.
The Book of Satan: The Infernal Diatribe, The Book of Lucifer: The Enlightenment, The Book of Belial: Mastery of the Earth, and The Book of Leviathan: The Raging Sea. [30] This association was inspired by the demonic hierarchy from The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage. Satan (Hebrew) "Lord of the Inferno":
The Book of Moses, included in the LDS standard works canon, references the war in heaven and Satan's origin as a fallen angel of light. [15] The concept of a war in heaven at the end of time became an addendum to the story of Satan's fall at the genesis of time—a narrative which included Satan and a third of all of heaven's angels.
The following contains spoilers from the sixth and final season of Netflix’s Lucifer. Netflix’s Lucifer this month wrapped its run as many a TV series does, by flashing forward to a future ...
Satan and Beelzebub, the captains of Hell in Paradise Lost by John Milton In Mark 3 :22, the scribes accuse Jesus Christ of driving out demons by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons. The name also appears in the expanded version in Matthew 12 :24,27 and Luke 11 :15, 18–19, as well as in Matthew 10:25 .