Belief that it was the proper name of Satan began with its use in Bible to translate GreekPhosphoros, which translates HebrewHelel ben Shaharin Isaiah xiv.12 — "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" [KJV] Because of the mention of a fall from Heaven, the...
The first instance in the Hebrew Bible where the word śāṭān is applied to a supernatural being occurs in the Book of Numbers 22:22. In the verse, Yahweh sends an angel to confront the prophet Balaam and the angel is explicitly described as a śāṭān. The verse reads as foll...
"ALBERT PIKE (1809-91) was a lawyer, a poet, a prolific writer, a general in the army of the Confederate States of America, and a Freemason. He was a voracious reader, especially interested in the religions and philosophical systems of ancient cultures, which he saw as having shaped the ...
śāṭānin the Hebrew Bible. Atlanta1988.Dinzelbacher,Peter: Jenseitsvisionen–Jenseitsreisen. In: Epische Stoffedes Mittelalters. Hg.vonVolker Mertens, Ulrich Müller.Stuttgart 1984, S. 61–80.Good,Edwin: Job and the Literary Task: AResponse. In: Soundings 56 (1973), S. 470–484.[...
Ignorance is on the looseThe color of my skin could put my neck in a nooseYo, my brain is haunted from the hate and violenceAnd everywhere I rock I see they take a code of silenceSaid in the Bible that my Savior diedYet other than me, they say the Lord has liedPeople walkin like...
I get really tired of the arguments from people questioning the validity of the Bible. Most of the arguments have been debunked a long time ago, and are simply repeatedadnauseum. Here isa great post from a New Testament scholartaking apart these arguments. ...
Lucifer is just another name for Satan, who as head of the evil world-system is the real, though invisible, power behind the successive rulers of Tyre, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and all of those evil rulers that we have seen come and go in the history of the world. This passage...
But you can’t give to others what you do not have.That’s why I keep banging the “Scripture memory” drum! The devil does not pull up a chair and wait while you go and find your Bible to search for a verse. Without God’s Word “in your hear...
that the name Lucifer was even used in the Bible. It was first introduced by Saint Jerome in his Latin Vulgate and later preserved by the dedicated scholars and linguists that produced the King James Version of the Bible. The interesting part is that Lucifer appeared in St. Jerome's ...
The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christianity. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists, and becomes a huge obstacle for the claims of Mormonism.John J. RobinsoninA Pilgrim's Path, pp. 47-48 explains: ...