Then do you find it weird that Lucifer comes from the word meaning light?
Not at all because he was God's most powerful angel, a created being.
In fact it's from Latin (lucern ferre) meaning light bearer. So I guess if we take that light means truth then the Devil is the truth bearer.
Isaiah 14:12, "How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
13) You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
14) I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'"
Before Satan's fall he was known as Lucifer but now he is only interested in out shining God. He misinterprets the Bible because he truly believes he will win the final conflict. Jesus won round one and the next conflict will be Satan and his two henchmen so he thinks he will be 3 times as powerful as God, in his mind.
God is omnipotent so why didn't he just defeat Satan and his demons?
He will, when heaven is ready and the very last person on earth has made a decision to either follow or reject Jesus' plan for salvation.
Its all part of his pwan. To pwepare the world for the believers.
I think this is what you meant: "Its all part of his plan. To prepare the world for the believers."
If so, who's plan?
It seems the only crimes that Lucifer or Satan or The Devil or whatever you want to call them (I realize that Lucifer and Satan are considered separate entities by most people) are guilty of is that of trying to let people know the truth about God or telling them that God shouldn't reign all mighty and get so wound up over some fruit.
I'll have to break up this run-on sentence.
Christians are taught that Satan goes by many names so I have no idea what you're talking about when you say "most people consider Lucifer and Satan as separate entities"?
Satan used a sincere motive to tempt Eve,(Genesis 3:1-4),"you will be like God." It wasn't wrong for Eve to
want to be like God. That's what all Christians are supposed to do.
What makes her action a sin is that she decided for herself to do what God had told her,(and Adam),not to do. She didn't see the harm in gaining the knowledge of good and evil and being
like God.
That's the danger with listening to Satan's misinterpretations of God's Word,(or, Bible). He can sound very convincing and make his way appear more desirable because he wants us all to be like him.
Satan, is in fact a fallen angel, banished from Heaven.
and Satanism is not worshipping the bad, killing people as sacrifices to Satan. No.
I agree with your first sentence but I don't understand what you mean with last one?
Did I make myself clearer. You are right about the fact that the Devil did kill less people than God, but Christians who are blinded by the other "job" of the Devil, disregard all that.
Blinded by what other job of the Devil?
