Your answer to the question allows to know where I might best spend my time in discussing gods word. So I will not bother you any further. Opinions are just that...opinions.....but when asking questions and disucssing the bible, opinions are the very thing one should stay clear of.
The thought that Lucifer is another name for Satan is a myth......We cannot say the same regarding Satan. Many have yet to catch on to this subtle fact.
You may be interested to to know that Lucifer is not who may feel / think he is....
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.”...
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...
Caladan, perhaps the process of how a highly regarded angel 'fell' from a righteous perfect start to the extent he did is explained in the book of James: "Each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in...
I agree Sunstone...esp. in light of what he told the first man as to the consequences of disobediance: 'from dust you are and to the dust you will return'. If God told him that and had something altogther different in mind...everlasting conscious torment, that would indeed say alot (but untrue)...