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Are Jesus and Lucifer Brothers?

Do Latter-day Saints teach that Jesus and Satan are brothers — and doesn’t that insult Christ?

Bible

They quote this

Bible · Hebrews 2:11

KJV + NRSVUE

They turn ‘He is not ashamed to call them brethren’ into a cartoon. Origin is not equality of glory.

King James Version

For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

NRSVUE

For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

How we read it

Hebrews says the Sanctifier and the sanctified are all of one, so He is not ashamed to call them brethren. That is incarnation and family, not a ranking of Jesus with the devil. Lucifer is a fallen creature. Jesus is the one by whom creatures exist (Col 1:16). Origin as spirit children of the Father is not equality of glory.

The Bible answers

Bible · Job 38:7

KJV + NRSVUE

The sons of God shouted at creation. One of them fell. That does not shrink Jesus.

King James Version

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

NRSVUE

when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?

Bible · Colossians 1:16–17

KJV + NRSVUE

Lucifer is a creature. Jesus is the one by whom creatures exist.

King James Version

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

NRSVUE

for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Book of Mormon

Also restored

Moses 4:1–2

The Son says ‘Father, thy will be done.’ Lucifer says ‘give me thine honor.’ Same scene, not the same rank.

Satan… came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost… But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.

Doctrine and Covenants 76:25–26

We remember an angel who was in authority — and fell. Jesus did not.

And this we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son… was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over him—he was Lucifer, a son of the morning.

Ancient witnesses

Dead Sea Scrolls and related extra-biblical texts that illuminate the same pattern the Restoration restores.

1 Enoch 6–10; Life of Adam and Eve — a heavenly rebel among the sons of God

Watchers and a proud angel fall from a heavenly court in which the ‘sons of God’ are a real host. Satan is a creature who overreaches. He is never Israel’s God.

The Bible’s universe is crowded: morning stars, sons of God, a divine council, a dragon thrown down (Revelation 12). Calling every intelligence a child of the Father does not flatten the Only Begotten into Lucifer’s classmate. It locates the war in heaven where Job, Isaiah 14, and Revelation already put it.

Faithful answers

FAIR

Do Latter-day Saints consider Jesus the brother of Satan?

FAIR Latter-day Saints

Technically, yes, in the thin sense that God is the Father of spirits and Lucifer is a fallen spirit. That is not our message about Jesus, and we do not teach it as a pair of equals. Jesus is the Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, the Creator of all things, Jehovah. Lucifer is an angel who rebelled and lost. Evangelical critics also believe God created Lucifer. They simply refuse to use the word ‘brother.’ The shock is vocabulary, not cosmology. We will not let a vocabulary trick shrink Christ.

Latter-day Saints do not consider Jesus in any way to be Satan’s peer. Jesus is the divine Son. Satan is a fallen angel.

  • Colossians 1:16: all thrones, dominions, and powers — including the one later called Lucifer — were created through the Son and for Him.
  • Hebrews 2:11: the sanctifier is not ashamed to call the sanctified brethren. If that honors us, it does not demote Him.
  • Moses 4 is the opposite of equality: one offers a fake redemption to steal glory; the Beloved Son submits to the Father’s will.
  • Ask the critic: did God create Lucifer, yes or no? If yes, they already believe the ‘gotcha.’ If no, they have left the Bible.
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