Talk:Religion/@comment-60.54.124.91-20170102104925/@comment-10380701-20170103110753

Literally speaking, Lucifer and Satan are not the same thing, but thanks to revisions in the bible through translations they began to fit into the same archetype.

Satan is basically the equivalent of a quiz for mankind to test their faith against God. The entire fable of Job is basically Satan being given complete free reign to troll one human to hell and back and see if he'll still have faith in God. (spoilers: He does) An apt description is that Satan represents mankind's capability to sin.

Lucifer is the shit angel who's currently locked up in Hell for trying to kick God's ass. But as he's the closest to a bad guy in the Bible that can rival God, his feats tend to be exaggerated and he's often said to be as powerful as Big G. Canonically, he's not. He's the equivalent of Roman trying to kick Salem's ass. Hell, even in the Catholic version where he goes to his final form, he still gets his ass kicked. That's how much of a scrub he is.

Most of Satan's actions were directed to him to make him seem like a badass which eventually got corrupted into Lucifer and Satan being the same thing, with Satan being Lucifer's Devil Trigger when he slipped and fell into Hell.