Post by Zadkiel on Jan 17, 2016 0:49:02 GMT
The old story about an intelligent celestial creature whom the Latin translators of old named Lucifer never actually existed! The Lucifer story is a complete religious fabrication.
When Isaiah was translated from Hebrew to Latin, the noun heylel ("son of the dawn") became the proper name Lucifer (Light-bearer" or "Light-bringer"), despite the fact that this expression absolutely cannot be derived from anywhere else in either the Hebrew or the Greek original language scriptures!
And Lucifer travelled on into English from the Vulgate to the King James version of the Bible.
The Bible translators thus inspired the notion of a fictitious story of a fallen, top-level celestial creature that was assembled from bits and pieces of scripture in Isaiah and Ezekiel, then hinting to the readers that prophecies about this concept are still unfulfilled!
But keen observers will understand that what the two prophets wrote about was a flesh and blood individual and not some fantastic celestial creature named Lucifer, later embellished into an account of Satan's former days as a righteous, anointed cherub. A careful study of Isaiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 28 shows that it was a man and not a cherub that was called "son of the dawn" (later twisted into the expression "day star"). More specifically, rational scholars now think that the term was used as a poetic description of the king of Tyr!
And still, Christian teachers try to convince their pupils to accept and believe that the fable of Lucifer not only is a prophecy that awaits fulfillment, but also that it is a historically accurate account!
The Lucifer myth is just one example of all the corrupt teaching that has dumped a tremendous amount of similar erroneous rubbish upon the minds of millions of Bible believers, leaving them so bewildered and blind that they are unable to distinguish scriptural truths from religious fairy tales! And if they dare raise their voice in objection, their leaders are typically very quick to claim that whatever alternative hypotheses they have come up with surely must be the doctrines of demons!
Isaiah and Ezekiel warned Israel of things that were to come, not of things that some quasi-experts think happened to a fallen angel in a distant, pre-Adamic past!
When Isaiah was translated from Hebrew to Latin, the noun heylel ("son of the dawn") became the proper name Lucifer (Light-bearer" or "Light-bringer"), despite the fact that this expression absolutely cannot be derived from anywhere else in either the Hebrew or the Greek original language scriptures!
And Lucifer travelled on into English from the Vulgate to the King James version of the Bible.
The Bible translators thus inspired the notion of a fictitious story of a fallen, top-level celestial creature that was assembled from bits and pieces of scripture in Isaiah and Ezekiel, then hinting to the readers that prophecies about this concept are still unfulfilled!
But keen observers will understand that what the two prophets wrote about was a flesh and blood individual and not some fantastic celestial creature named Lucifer, later embellished into an account of Satan's former days as a righteous, anointed cherub. A careful study of Isaiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 28 shows that it was a man and not a cherub that was called "son of the dawn" (later twisted into the expression "day star"). More specifically, rational scholars now think that the term was used as a poetic description of the king of Tyr!
And still, Christian teachers try to convince their pupils to accept and believe that the fable of Lucifer not only is a prophecy that awaits fulfillment, but also that it is a historically accurate account!
The Lucifer myth is just one example of all the corrupt teaching that has dumped a tremendous amount of similar erroneous rubbish upon the minds of millions of Bible believers, leaving them so bewildered and blind that they are unable to distinguish scriptural truths from religious fairy tales! And if they dare raise their voice in objection, their leaders are typically very quick to claim that whatever alternative hypotheses they have come up with surely must be the doctrines of demons!
Isaiah and Ezekiel warned Israel of things that were to come, not of things that some quasi-experts think happened to a fallen angel in a distant, pre-Adamic past!
