DAY 74: DOES LUCIFER REALLY MEAN SATAN Here’s something you may not know: “lucifer,” which we equate with “Satan,” does appear in some Bible translations and I have no problem with that. In fact, we can see lucifer in Isaiah 14, which talks about the fall of Satan, and Ezekiel 28, which mentions wickedness being found in him, but “lucifer” is actually NOT a proper name, (though we normally capitalize it since the word is commonly used as a proper name for Satan). It’s a Latin word (derived from the Hebrew word) meaning “morning star.” The actual Latin word is luciferum. The translators of the Bible’s King James Version didn’t know what the Hebrew word meant so they literally transliterated the Latin word “lucifer,” or “luciferum,” or “morning star,” to lucifer. I don't bring that up to get into some tit for tat, but only to point out Mormonism’s claim that Lucifer is supposedly the brother of Jesus, and that both were born of physical, sexual relations between God (which can’t be because God is a spirit) and one of His “wives,” which makes no sense on many levels, including their use of “lucifer” for the devil’s name when it is not even a proper name. So, it can’t be a real character in their story of a supposed family squabble between Jesus and “Lucifer.” I am only picking this apart a bit because Mormonism claims their gospel is better than the Christian gospel and promises us that theirs was also inspired of God. But with all due respect, how can it be from God if their whole story is based on a completely flawed use of the word?