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>Lucifer was an angel
Honestly, there's really nothing in the Bible that backs this up. It's a major tenet of a lot of Christian denominations, especially Catholicism but there's literally no fucking basis for it.
The most cited passage in support of the idea that there wasn't even an angel named Lucifer and that he even rebelled, is a very short verse that mentions "the lucifer" which in Latin means "daystar" as in literally the planet Venus. And it mentions the fall of the Daystar most likely as a metaphor for the rise and fall of King Nebuchadnezzar.
The earliest mention of Satan by name is in either first Kings or Chronicles I forget which now. Basically, Kings and Chronicles tell the same story but from different perspectives and one said that the king of Israel decided to conduct a census. But then the other says just off the cuff, "One day, Satan convinced the king to conduct a census." Just boom, like that suddenly we're supposed to know who Satan is!
And I'm also aware that a lot of people conflate the serpent in the Garden of Eden with satan, but there is nothing in the Bible that says they are the same being. The serpent originally had legs and then God cursed it and took its legs away and then forever after it crawled on its belly. I mean that's literally what's in genesis. So apparently all snakes and apparently legless lizards (which are also a thing and are not snakes) I guess are paying the price for what their ancestor did however many thousands of years ago haha.
There is so much shit that is in the Bible that people don't know about, and there is so much shit that is NOT in the Bible that people think it is.
Source: over the course of like 4 years, I read the entire fucking NIV Bible from Genesis to Revelation, occasionally cross checking with the KJV.