LOOK, SO MANY SCHOLARS HAVE REALISED THAT IDEAS/BELIEFS FIRST PUT FORWARD BY ZARATHUSHTRA, FOUNDER OF ZOROASTRIANISM,AND THEN DEVELOPED BY HIS FOLLOWERS,IDEAS OF ONE SUPREME GOD,THE WISE CHOICE OF GOOD OVER EVIL IN ALL WE DO ARISING FROM THE PERSISTENT CONFLICT BETWEN THESE QUALITIES BOTH IN OUR SELVES AND AROUND US, THE FINAL TRUIMPH OF GOOD OVER EVIL AND THE END OF TIME, THE COMING OF A WORLD SAVIOUR THE SOSHYANT, IDEAS THAT PASSED ON TO THE JEWS DURING THEIR INTERACTION WITH THEIR IRANIAN RULERS AFTER THEIR BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY. CYRUS NOT ONLY FREED THE JEWS FROM BABYLON, BUT HELPED THEM REBUILD THEIR TEMPLE, AND DANIEL,EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, AUTHORS OF SECTIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, WERE INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH THE PERSIAN COURT; THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS VERY STRONGLY ESPOUSE ZOROASTRIAN BELIEFS OF THE CONFLICT OF GOOD AND EVIL. JESUS ESPOUSED ZOROASTRIAN IDEAS WHEN HE SPOKE OF GOD BEING LOVE,HIS CLAIM OF BEING THE REDEEMER(ZARATHUSHTRA HAD SAID THE REDEEMER WOULD OF VIRGIN BIRTH!)
I have had 7 replies to my question;but real people? all my respondents use alias so I would never know them! Now, on the answers I received, I am not surprised that most know little on Zoroastrianism. A quick search on Google> search>Zoroastrianism would give over 700,000 sites to know on Zoroastrianism! Some answers suggest the media ignores Z because it does not have a respectable following or it is not the religion of any country, but then how does one explain the media’s long and continious exposure of ancient eygptian religion and customs when not one single individual today a follower! Z does not evangelize, true; but so Judaism does not and it gets a goodly coverage on media! The best answer is from “heron by the”, and it is significant that a religious study major includes Z in her curriculum. But the answer from Askeutichus needs some response:Mazda is a name given the Creator,the Creator of this universe! its not other way around that Yahweh is only true God!!
I have had 7 replies to my question;but real people? all my respondents use alias so I would never know them! Now, on the answers I received, I am not surprised that most know little on Zoroastrianism. A quick search on Google> search>Zoroastrianism would give over 700,000 sites to know on Zoroastrianism! Some answers suggest the media ignores Z because it does not have a respectable following or it is not the religion of any country, but then how does one explain the media’s long and continious exposure of ancient eygptian religion and customs when not one single individual today a follower! Z does not evangelize, true; but so Judaism does not and it gets a goodly coverage on media! The best answer is from “heron by the”, and it is significant that a religious study major includes Z in her curriculum. But the answer from Askeutichus needs some response:Mazda is a name given the Creator,the Creator of this universe! its not other way around that Yahweh is only true God!
I have had 7 replies to my question;but real people? all my respondents use alias so I would never know them! Now, on the answers I received, I am not surprised that most know little on Zoroastrianism. A quick search on Google> search>Zoroastrianism would give over 700,000 sites to know on Zoroastrianism! Some answers suggest the media ignores Z because it does not have a respectable following or it is not the religion of any country, but then how does one explain the media’s long and continious exposure of ancient eygptian religion and customs when not one single individual today a follower! Z does not evangelize, true; but so Judaism does not and it gets a goodly coverage on media! The best answer is from “heron by the”, and it is significant that a religious study major includes Z in her curriculum. But the answer from Askeutichus needs some response:Mazda is a name given the Creator,the Creator of this universe! its not other way around that Yahweh is only true God!
