Oops . . . my bad
. . . I get carried away with my yapping!
Yep.............but IMO here is the real problem/concern.
You said............
"Personally, I don't find either Satan nor Lucifer to be objectively real."
No matter how we slice and dice it. No matter how much we show off what we know for others to see. When it gets right down to the nitty griddy there is the problem when we do not believe in Satan/Lucifer. When we do that, we have actively rejected the Word of God because it is the Word of God from which we find this person.....Satan/Lucifer/Devil.
1 John 3:8
"He the committeth sin is of the DEVIL, for the DEVIL sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the DEVIL".
There has always ben an effort to water down/liberalize the Word of God. John does not do that and I agree with John. Sin is of the
Devil/Satan/Lucifer. Christ came to destroy the Devils deeds. It is through the death, burial and resurrection that Christ overcame Satan and allowed the whole world to be saved from hell. But of course if the Devil is not real, then hell must not be real either.
So then, if we accept that there is no Satan/Lucifer, we can just take a pair of sissors and remove 1 John 3:8 from the Bible.
Then there is John 8:44 where God Himself said..........
"Ye are of your father the DEVIL and the lusts of your father ye will do. HE was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in HIM. When HE speaks a lie, HE speaks of HIS own; for HE is a liar and the father of it."
If I remember my English, I think that the words HE/HIS are personal pronouns which describe the subject of the verse which is
"Ye are of your father the DEVIL".
If that is not the case, then didn't Jesus, God in the flesh just tell a lie????
But wait.........since we can cut out that verse and remove it from the Scripture it will not apply..........I guess!
Although he has persuaded many people that he doesn't exist, Satan very definitely is a real, personal being, the source of all unbelief and of every kind of moral and spiritual evil in the world. If or when HE convinces anyone that HE is not real, the hardest part of HIS deception is over. From that point it becomes easy to SIN and live with it.
SATAN is called by various names in the Bible, including Satan which means “adversary”— in Job 1:6 and Romans 16:20.
HE is called the devil which means “slanderer”— in Matthew 4:1 and 1 Peter 5:8.
HE is called the serpent in 2 Corth. 11:3 and the Rev. 12:9.
The existence of Satan as a personal being is proved by the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ recognized him as such. Jesus referred to him frequently by name using personal pronouns to identify HIM in Luke 10:18 and Matthew 4:10.
Jesus went so far as to call HIM “the prince of this world” in not one but 3 places. John 12:31, 14:30 and 16:11.
So then.....to make Satan as you say........
"Personally, I don't find either Satan nor Lucifer to be objectively real." we MUST change the Scriptures and remove a host of Gods Words.