“The Other Bible” is a collection of books about Christianity, every book written more than a thousand years ago, just as was every book in the King James edition of the Christian Bible.

“The Other Bible” was first published in the United States of America in 1984. The King James Christian Bible was first published in England in the year 1611.

In both collections there are some books that were written long before the time of Jesus. In those times there could not have been much communication among authors, if only because, scholars have averred, less than 1% of persons in a nation could read. This statistic helps explain why there are so many differences in stories of the same person in the different books.

For instance, the name Lucifer. In Christian tradition, Lucifer is mentioned as the leader of all evil Angels and Gods, while Jehovah is the leader of all good Angels.

And yet, on the one hand, in the Christian Bible, Lucifer is never recorded as claiming to have committed any crime against persons, adults and children; not even once!

On the other hand, Jehovah, the supposedly good God, is mentioned by name as committing crimes many times against persons like children, and as speaking unashamedly about those crimes.

In the Christian Bible there are at least twenty-six instances when Jehovah boldly and proudly identifies himself with evil:

“Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee.

The Lord said, I will bring evil upon the house.

Thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon thee.

The word of the Lord came, saying, I will bring evil upon this house.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof.

Saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon this place.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place.

Thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil from the north.

Thus saith the Lord, Hear, O Earth, behold, I will bring evil upon this people.

Thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape, and though they shall cry unto me, I shall not hearken unto them.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil upon them

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

Saith the Lord, I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good.

Saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon them, for both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house have I found their wickedness.

Thus saith the Lord, I have brought all this great evil upon this people.

This word came from the Lord, Hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, None of them shall escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Ye have seen all the evil I have brought.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will set my face against you for evil.

Behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord.

I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the Lord.

They shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

Thus saith the Lord God, Ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon you.

The Lord, standing upon the altar, said, I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, for this time is evil.”

Fully equivalent to Jehovah’s sin of joy in being evil, is his evil joy in ‘hardening’ a person’s heart that he, almighty God, might have an excuse to punish that person: “And the Lord said, I have hardened his heart that I might shew these my signs before him.”

In the Bible, at least nineteen times Jehovah chooses to joy in his evil hardening of hearts.

In addition to the twenty-six instances of Jehovah’s declaration of being barefacedly evil, there are at least eight instances of Jehovah evilly murdering children:

“The Lord commanded, Kill every male among the little ones.

The Lord said, Utterly destroy the men and the women, and the little ones of every city.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Slay infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Thus saith the Lord, The child that is born unto thee shall surely die. And the Lord struck the child. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died.

Thus saith the Lord God, Arise thou therefore. Get thee to thine own house. When thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

There came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, ‘Go up thy bald head; go up thy bald head.’ He turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

The Lord said, Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children.

Saith the Lord of hosts, Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.”

In the Bible, it is recorded that children were murdered regularly by some of the other Gods such as Adrammelech, Baalim, and Molech; but no other God was as prolific a serial murderer of children as Jehovah was.

By the Christian Bible’s unforgivable inexplicable paucity of information, it would be a most reasonable conclusion that Lucifer is not the name of a living Angel that God created in heaven, but is most likely only the parabolic personification of the universal moral value of fair treatment.

Such an interpretation is most obvious in the story of Lucifer as it is told in “The Other Bible”, and in the Koran of Islam.

In “The Other Bible”, it is told that before the incident of unfairness to which Lucifer objected, he was not in any position of leadership.

All Angels in heaven had been created out of flames of fire from the Divine spirit essence of almighty God Jehovah himself. All Angels in heaven are equal in the presence of God. There are countless Angels.

Since almighty Jehovah is complete and perfect in himself, it is unknown why he created Angels to serve him. A plausible reason is that, long before he created anything, almighty God “saw that it was good” that all life to come should be founded on the universal moral goodness principle of mutual fair treatment such as “All things whatsoever ye would others should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”

Whatever caused almighty God to create immortal living Angel spirits was either the same or a similar need to create a man, which is a living thing far inferior to the Angels for having been created by God as a combination of the living breath of God, and non-living dirt of Earth.

Why God stooped to create a man as a non-spiritual dirt-mortality life-form which is far beneath his Divine Being, is not satisfactorily explained in the Christian Bible.

Worse yet, and quite inexplicable, in The Other Bible it is given that God was so proud of his man-thing mortal non-spirit creation out of dirt, that he ordered all the Angels to kneel in respect before the man.

Out of all the countless Angels, Lucifer was the only one to ask God that he, Lucifer, be excused from kneeling to an inferior mortal creation-out-of-dirt.

Lucifer said to Jehovah that it was unfair that Jehovah should be ordering Angels made from the Divine Essence of God himself, to kneel to the human who God had deliberately made partially out of dead dirt!

When the other Angels came to know of the courageous fair request from Angel Lucifer to almighty God Jehovah, some of them joined Lucifer in his petition for fairness from God.

The vast majority of Angels, out of fear of God almighty, did not join Lucifer. They were content to be treated with utter disrespect by almighty Jehovah.

The names of twenty-seven of those Angels that joined Lucifer in his request for fairness from God are:

Adramelech, Anammelech, Ashima, Ashtaroth, Asta, Astarte, Baal, Baalim, Baalpeor, Baalzebub, Beelzebub, Belial, Chemosh, Dagon, Ishtar, Marduk, Moloch, Milcom, Nebo, Neith, Nergal, Nibhaz, Remphan, Satan, Succoth-benoth, Tammuz, Tartak.

Almighty God Jehovah refused their request for fair treatment. Satan led a rebellion against Jehovah. The rebellion was defeated by the other countless Angels led by Jehovah.

Proof of that war having happened in heaven and that Lucifer, probably, was not the leader of the rebellion against the unfair Jehovah, are the words of Jesus, the Son of Jehovah: “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.”

The Christian Bible records show that those twenty-seven Angels decided to settle on the imperfect and dirty mortal Earth Jehovah had created, so that they could continue their rebellion against his unfairness.

Sometimes in the Bible, these “fallen” Angels are referred to as gods, or idols.

There is no mention in the Christian Bible of where Lucifer went when he was expelled from heaven with those other twenty-six who fought for fair treatment by almighty Jehovah, their creator.

There is no hard evidence in the Christian Bible that Lucifer ever fled down to Earth.

“The Other Bible” suggests Lucifer headed far out into eternity, forever away from an unfair almighty Jehovah:

“Lucifer, sadly, did depart heaven and the presence of Jehovah, his creator, forever into infinite nothingness.”

From the kind of such little evidence in the Bible, the reasonable Christian conclusion has to be that there was never any Angel by the name of Lucifer.

Moreover, there is no mention of Lucifer in the many non-Bible scriptural texts as old as or older than either the Christian Bible or “The Other Bible.”

So far, the only viable purpose for the story of a fictive Lucifer is that it is a parabolic personification of everyone’s moral right to fair treatment.

As such, the Lucifer parable teaches the most important moral prescription of all in that fair behaviour ought to be the first principle in every moral code, universally!