If angels really look like a jrpg final boss, with the eyes on crazy looking non human shapes, you still fukking with God?
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Is that what Lucifer looked like before he was cast out of heaven? Ol ugly ass, he was jealous because God made us look better
Lucifer isn’t really in the Bible. Lucifer is just the Latin word for Venus and the history of conflating Lucifer with Satan is long and complicated.
In short, the romans had some legends about Venus being cast down from the heavens to the earth because that’s the way the planet Venus moves in the sky. It travels up and down in a little loop/zigzag just at the horizon, and in early morning it’s just beneath the sun falling towards earth.
Because Venus is one of the few stars visible at daybreak, Semitic cultures referred to Venus as a sort of “morning star” in a way that had a very positive connotation.
In the book of Isaiah, Isaiah sarcastically called an opponent of his “morning star” to imply that he was not in fact good, like calling someone “Einstein” when they’ve done something stupid.
When this got translated into Latin in the vulgate bible a few centuries after Jesus died, they translated this word to “Lucifer” because that’s the Latin word for Venus.
Romans reading this for the first time some thousand plus years after it was written then thought that Isaiah was referring to the Lucifer that they know for being cast out of heaven.
Since Satan is similarly described as being cast out of heaven, new readers started to draw connections between the two and assume that they are the same being. But those beings come from completely different cultures, and Lucifer as a being was never in the Bible anyways.
So Lucifer just looks like Venus, Satan probably an ugly bytch though
Formerly Black Trash
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Im just trying to see whose a true believerthread title just a "bit" blasphemous breh?
Im doing The Lords work
Devilinurear
Veteran
It only matters if God is fukking with me.
The BasedFather
Task Force
Breh im a soldier of God
Yea, the real descriptions of angels is nighmare fuel. That is why they always had to tell a human, "Do not be afraid".
Why?
You think that's the mark of a benevolent creator?
Being able to look like a Dark Souls boss, shoot lasers and fire at people, and having a voice that sounds like a rushing river sounds pretty benevolent to me. The only thing left is having awesome boss music playing anytime I show up.
I never thought of it that way. It makes sense because if they showed up as just glowing people with wings, they'd say something like "Bro stop giggling, you're not high and this is real".
