No. Zorastraians were the major religion of IRAN,before the Muslims moved in and killed them if they refused to join Islam. No ties to Judisiam or Christianity at all. They worshiped a man named ZORASTER.
Zoroaster invented apocalyptic ism.
Here are the three main tenants:
1: Dualism. The world and the cosmos itself is dived into two basic camps, the forces of good and the forces of evil.
2: Impotence. Man is basically powerless to effect this in any major way.
3: Vindication. Sooner or later God or an emissary will set things right and defeat evil, and those who chose good will be rewarded.
Yes.
But you likely think 'Christianity' of today is the actual faith spoken of in Scripture, which it is not, just as Judaism took on different teachings in the form of the present day Talmudic Judaism. Modern Christianity and Talmudic Judaism both come from the same source as Zoroasterism, Babylon (which in itself is a sex religion going back to the garden of Eden with Eve and the "Serpent Seed", and therefore Cain's lineage.
This is the actual message of the Scripture itself, the warfare that exists between the seed lines living in the earth and how one line was chosen and how it would be 'redeemed' and placed in power with total dominion over the earth, therefore the opposing forces in Babylonian religions.
For further details I suggest reading this book, especially pages 59, 61, 71, 75, 120, 170, 180, 191, 228, 234, 259, 313.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=JrLd60BHSMwC&dq=The+Two+Babylons&pr intsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=l5DkEW9AZz&sig=P8 58EYvb81F8hs6OSq1xJMtYFjM#PPA71,M1
Nope, not at all. Zoroastrianism was founded in the 1st millennium BCE, which Judaism was already founded, for the Kingdom of Israel and Judah had already existed circa 1200 BCE, and the twelve tribes had already existed before that, which goes all the way back to the dawn of time, but historically speaking, the Jews entered Egypt in 2116 BCE and by then they were already believers of Judaism. Though Zoroastrianism sounds remarkably like what the bible preaches, it is not affiliated to Judaism or Christianity, though it is most likely that Zoroaster (the founder) copied texts from the Jewish bible (the Masoretic Text), which explains the similarity.
Also, a prime example of their non-relation would be the Sassanid Persian Empire, which promoted Zoroastrianism as a state religion, and thus, fought many wars with the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) and would execute captured Roman soldiers and citizens who were Christian in cruel ways to taunt the Byzantine leadership on their powerlessness to do anything about it.
Is Zoroastrianism tied to Judaism or Christianity in any way?
