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I am adopting a beautiful six month old black and white Maine Coon Cat. I love his person like characteristics and dominant personality. I really want to call him Lucifer. My question is if this is offensive to God. I know Lucifer is sometimes thought to mean a fallen angel in certain Bible translations. I also understand it to mean light bearer in Latin. Anyone know the full deal with the name or if it matters if I use it?
 
At the risk of offending many cat owners, I find many cats are from Hell anyway, so why not? It’s a provocative name and you will likely get many raised eyebrows, but whether the name is offensive to God is something you should ask Him. According to Webster’s Dictionary here are the uses of the word:

1—used as a name of the devil
2**:** the planet Venus when appearing as the morning star
3: not capitalized : a friction match having as active substances antimony sulfide and potassium chlorate

Myself, I wouldn’t use it just because I don’t want to give any recognition to Satan. There are so many more interesting characters that fit the attributes you’ve ascribed to this feline.
 
Gisella said:
I am adopting a beautiful six month old black and white Maine Coon Cat. I love his person like characteristics and dominant personality. I really want to call him Lucifer. My question is if this is offensive to God. I know Lucifer is sometimes thought to mean a fallen angel in certain Bible translations. I also understand it to mean light bearer in Latin. Anyone know the full deal with the name or if it matters if I use it?
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We had an all black Maine Coon Cat for over 15 years. We called him “cat”. Sometimes “el gato negro”. But he was something of a devil so go for it. He will probably live up to the name sooner or later. My wife was his “mommy”. I was prey. Remember God gave us cats so we wouldn’t get a puffed up image from dogs. According to the story, after making that pronouncement, the cat’s answer was “whatever”
 
Lucifer became applied to the devil in only recent times as a result of medieval thought. In fact, in Christian antiquity, there was a bishop named Lucifer (of Cagliari), and he was a staunch opponent of the Arians. I think he’s even revered as a saint in some areas, although his cultus is not universal.
 
there is an old saying. "dogs have owners, cats have staff, " enjoy your life being a slave , no matter what name you give your cat:D
 
robert_ambrose said:
there is an old saying. "dogs have owners, cats have staff, " enjoy your life being a slave , no matter what name you give your cat:D
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I like the Japanese version: feed a dog for three days and it’s loyal for three years, feed a cat for three years and it forgets in three days.

That said, all my grandmother’s black Persians were going to be named devilish things; the only ones she got were Hela (Loki’s daughter, ruler of the Norse underworld) and Demon (kinda funny when he got lost, and she had to go around the neighborhood calling, “Demon!” over and over).

I’d name it Ahriman: the Zoroastrian Satan (although I think he actually shares an origin with the Indian storm god Indra).
 
The Cat on Disney’s Cinderella is named that…but he is a mean, nasty, spiteful cat.

And say he runs away, do you want your neighbors hearing you call him?
 
I have heard that using Lucifer for Satan arose in Paradise Lost. He was Lucifer [Light Bearer] before his fall; Satan thereafter.
 
Joe_Kelley said:
I have heard that using Lucifer for Satan arose in Paradise Lost. He was Lucifer [Light Bearer] before his fall; Satan thereafter.
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I like it!

Since cat is white and black. And cats are cats. The name fits perfectly
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Gisella said:
I am adopting a beautiful six month old black and white Maine Coon Cat. I love his person like characteristics and dominant personality. I really want to call him Lucifer. My question is if this is offensive to God. I know Lucifer is sometimes thought to mean a fallen angel in certain Bible translations. I also understand it to mean light bearer in Latin. Anyone know the full deal with the name or if it matters if I use it?
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I agree with StCsDavid that you should ask God if this offends him 🙂 :). God is completely accessible. He answers prayers, and having them answered is a beautiful experience.

God might very possibly tell you what he thinks if you ask him. And if you’re not used to hearing from him in a clear way, ask him to open your ears for it!
 
A couple of months before he died, my brother (God rest his soul) acquired a 3-month-old kitten from the shelter. It was white and playful, just the cutest thing ever. Then its “inner demon” came out. It began to plague the other two older cats, lying in wait for household members to pass by and then attacking with wild abandon, shredding newspapers, etc.

My brother named him “Judas”.

After my brother died, my SIL renamed the cat “Willy”.
 
My 11 yr old black Norwegian Forest Cat is named Magick Melchior, my 7 yr old white odd eye is Merlin Emerys and my 7 yr old gray Egyptian Mau is Mystick Grace. Mage, Merly and Myssi. The cat in the library (a stray who stayed) is a black Bombay and her name is Medea. My Japanese Akita is Tsunami Samantha or Samma. So all of my pets have
magical-ish names.
I like Lucifer as a name, and it was the name BEFORE he turned bad…it is not like you are naming him Satan (I did know a cat named Satan–he was a sweetheart tho).
 
Gisella said:
I am adopting a beautiful six month old black and white Maine Coon Cat. I love his person like characteristics and dominant personality. I really want to call him Lucifer. My question is if this is offensive to God. I know Lucifer is sometimes thought to mean a fallen angel in certain Bible translations. I also understand it to mean light bearer in Latin. Anyone know the full deal with the name or if it matters if I use it?
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It’s a bit tangled:​

  • lucifer is the Latin word
  • equivalent to Greek eosphoros
  • which in turn is a translation of Hebrew helel
    Lucifer = lightbearer
    eosphoros = dawn bearer
  • these two words are semantic, not verbal, equivalents, for the star that brings the dawn; that is, for the planet Venus. Which is why helel ben shachar in Isa 14 is called “Lucifer, son of the morning” in the AV-KJV
The identification of helel/lucifer with the devil, came about because the fall of Helel in that chapter was taken to be a description of the fall of the devil, less because of the chapter itself, than because the chapter came to be understood as a reference to a fall of satan; which is why in Luke 10.18 & elsewhere in the NT it is treated as such. Shachar mother of Helel seems to be referred to in Psalm 2 - both are pre-Israelite deities.

Christ is “the bright star of morning” at the end of Revelation, & the anatole, the “dayspring from on high” in Luke 1.78. So He too is the Light-bearer.

Short answer - there’s no reason not to call your cat Lucifer 🙂 There is a fourth-century bishop called Lucifer, who is venerated as a Saint in his diocese, which is Cagliari in Sicily.
 
MH84 said:
The next time you see a cat masturbating while looking at a magazine picture of a naked woman please let me know.
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Well, I’ve seen tomcats masturbate, but their sexual arousal probably isn’t visually cued the way human males’ is. I believe it’s cued by scent.

What a strange, strange thing to say.
 
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