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34. Lucifer: What's in a Name? How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, morning star! — Isaiah 14:12 Name: Lucifer aka Satan Status: Fallen Angel and God of this World Rank: Commander of the Fallen Angel Army Though Lucifer is the most common name given to the fallen angel known as Satan, this is technically not his name. Lucifer is merely the Latin word for light-bearer, and in Latin versions of the Bible even describes Jesus. Some Protestant Christians, presumably ignorant of this, have accused Catholic Christians of invoking the name of Lucifer at the Easter services because they annually sing a song about Jesus inspired by 2 Peter 1:19 in Latin. 2 Peter 1:19 (Latin version): et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem cui bene facitis adtendentes quasi lucernae lucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescat et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris 2 Peter 1:19 (English version): we have even greater confidence in the message proclaimed by the prophets. You must pay close atten...

33. Cake or Death? "The Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”  — Genesis 2:16-17 After God creates Eve, He announces that everything he has created is "very good." What was God's first command to the human race? BEEP. Wrong Answer. Unless of course you answered: have sex. * Lots and lots of sex. Yup. Not kidding. Hover over Genesis 1:28. Who said God's rules weren't fun? Moving on. Before God created Eve, He told Adam that he could eat from every tree on the surface of the earth...save for one. This particular one was in the very center of God's garden. The garden which Adam was the gardener of. God explicitly warned Adam that the fruit of this particular tree would kill him. The Ultimate Cake or Death. Would you like cake (the fruit from any of these 10 15 trees + immortality) or death (the fruit...

32. The Lord of Death "...the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil." — Hebrews 2:14 The Wisdom of Solomon is a Jewish book dating to a time period referred to as 2nd Temple Judaism , the short-lived, but unique brand of Judaism adhered to by Jesus and Paul. God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world....  — Wisdom 1:13-14 and 2:23  NRSV  &  KJV Whether you believe the Wisdom of Solomon is inspired or Deuterocanonical/Apocrypha, one thing remains clear: The Jews of Jesus' and Paul's day understood that God did not create death. Paul confirmed this New Testament Jewish belief in his letter to the church in Rome: Against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people....

31. Lord of the Sabbath For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.  —Exodus 20:11 On the sixth day (the first Friday), God declared that his creation was "very good." Planet Earth was Eutopia,* a perfect world. On the seventh day (the first Saturday), God finished his work of creation, so he "sabbath on the seventh day from all his work." We often translate the Hebrew word "sabbath" as rested, though it more accurately means "ceased" or "desisted." At this point in scripture, barely chapter two, God defines himself as Creator of the world, his most magnanimous role, and establishes a 7-day week, and later (Exodus 20:11) would declare that on the 7th day all those in allegiance to him were to honor him as Creator by also ceasing from their own work every 7th day. Think about that for a second. God...