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Edit: Cain killed Abel and taught his offspring false teachings because "Cain, who was of that wicked one...slew his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous." 1 John 3:12.
"Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core." Jude 1:11.
Thus, all false religions starting from Cain and all the false prophets take from and misuse the Word of God- - not the other way around! Cain started the first false religion & deviations from the True & only God.
kudos. it is much better to disprove with proof. all those above me just say no you are wrong without showing evidence. once again kudos and keep it up
Genesis. really? come on. his kipped a better source.
That's speculation at best. There is always cross-fertilization as far as religions go, but saying that Zoroastrianism is the "mother religion" of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is disingenuous.
EDIT: And I don't know what "Ardenia" is going on about. What proof? Wikipedia is not proof.
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Tyu,
Did YOU know that all "OTHER" religions have been copied from God's Original religion
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
After the serpent deceived Eve, and sin entered the world, God ->
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. [John 1:1-3]
God gave the "Gospel" to Adam and eve.
This was, and is the same gospel we have in the Bible today.
This gospel was expanded upon down through the ages by means of God's Patriarchs, Prophets, Judges, Kings, and Jesus ( God's Son).
I believe this gospel to be the ORIGINAL religion from God and ALL other religions are a variation of, or are in lieu of God's original Gospel for the salvation of mankind.
Zoroastrianism was the first monotheist religion, the Bible uses the Magi as a form of verification and authentication for the new Roman religion.
Zoroastrianism echos through nearly all religions, Buddhism and Hinduism too.
The Zoroastrian Mithraic religion was the most popular religion in Europe prior to Christianity, most Christian churches in Europe and Central Asia are built over old Mithraeums. Including St. John Lateran.
Zoroastrianism may resemble something of Christianity on the surface, but a close comparison of the two will reveal the contradictory differences between them.
The God of Zoroastrianism is similar to the God revealed in the Bible; however, there are some major differences. Ahura-Mazda is not an all-powerful God but is only equal in strength to Angra Mainyu. They are co-equal and co-eternal.
According to the Bible, God is the only all-powerful Being, with His archenemy, Satan, a created being."
"Satan is not the opposite of God, for he is neither all-powerful nor eternal."
"Zoroastrianism believes that a person earns favor with God by his good works. There is no answer to the sin problem of mankind, for the difference between a good man and a bad man is considered to be only relative. According to the Bible, there is no one who is good enough on his own to make it to heaven. This is why Jesus Christ had to die on the cross, to solve the problem of sin."
"The practice of Zoroastrianism involves much that is occultICCnd superstitious, something resoundingly condemned in the Scripture. The practice of drinking Ham (so ma in India), a hallucinogenic, has become a central rite in Zoroastrian worship.
Any type of involvement in occultICCractices is strongly forbidden by the Bible."
"Worship in Zoroastrianism is legalistic and impersonal, reflecting the view of its impersonal god, Ahura-Mazda. In Christianity, God is to be worshipped personally with all one's heart, since His nature is personal."
did you just learn that in your world history class?
go to your kipped check out the related religions section
"we can assert that Manichaeism has its roots in the Iranian religious tradition and that its relationship to Mazdaism, or Zoroastrianism, is more or less LIKE that OF Christianity TO Judaism"
it is comparing how they are related NOT that they are related
Didn't the Parsi leaders in India try to pass some religious law prohibiting inter-religious marriages, and hence keeping the community small, some time back? Why the sudden change of heart?
Anyhow, No. Zoroastrianism is no mother to anyone. Parsis seem like nice and laid back people though, didn't know you were into proselytizing.
The first recorded organized surviving Religion was Hinduism, which was over 60,000 old. The pro to-Hindu Religions of Buddhism and Jainism, which followed a bit later, and Hinduism did not consider the Sun a God, but an Elemental.
Zoroastrianism is, undoubtedly quite old, but, the Concept of Y'weh of the Jews was somewhat unique at that period.
While Christianity has it's roots in Judaism, it was actually a rebellious break away group from it as much as Islam was to Christianity where it stemmed from.
However, to go into the details of all this would be too long for this Board.
There is absolutely NO evidence to prove that Zoroaster wasn't a descendant of one of the disobedient tribes of Judaism that defied God, broke away from Judaism and took only those prophecies and traditions that were convenient to serving their purpose of building their own kingdom. In fact, there is more evidence to suggest that Zoroastrianism may well have been nothing more than a poor attempt to copycat of Judaism that wasn't even developed until the 5Th century BC.
The Gathas of Zoroaster, about 1000 B.C., are believed to be authentic, most of the Zoroastrian scriptures were not put into writing until after the third century A.D. The most popular Parsi biography of Zoroaster was written in A.D. 1278. So any mothering could have possibly been vice verse.
The argument that Judaism borrowed from Zoroastrianism is, as yet, unproven. In fact, if any borrowing was done, it was quite possibly the other way around. In the first place, the evidence actually indicates that Zoroaster wasn't even born until about the time of the Babylonian Captivity. Kenneth Boa states that his dates are sometimes given as between 628 to 551 B.C. If these dates are even relatively accurate then it is quite possible that Judaism did not borrow from Zoroastrianism.
Rather, it may actually have been Zoroaster who borrowed from the religion of the Jewish captives in Babylon. It is certainly true that Zoroaster spoke of such things as the coming of a savior and the resurrection of the body and so on. But he may have borrowed these ideas from the Jewish captives in Babylon. Indeed, it appears that all of these ideas can be found in the Jewish Scriptures prior to the Babylonian Captivity.
Mother religion for the Israelite religion is way too strong, more like a cousin, since Israelite's roots and early scripture is more southern and western than the in do-Persian culture. It roots & texts go back to before the 3rd millennium b.c.e. , to the older Sumerians and the Akkadians Writings with the hero Ziusudra, son of Shuruppak and last last of the antediluvian dynasty's. And to the 3rd dynasty of Egypt (2650 Be), the alphabet goes back to the early Phoenicians. The1st Akkadian flood story in the 2ND to early first 1st millennium b.c.e. and a 2ND flood story is recorded in the Akkadian Gilgamesh epic, at about 1100 b.c.e. There is also influence by the amorite, the Canaanite, and the neo-Assyrian. Abram supposedly would have come from Assyria before about 1500 b.c.e. And his story is amother rejection of the personal or local gods of the mesopotamian & middle eastern/Syrian peoples.
The oldest evidence of formal Zorastrian religion, I believe as about 550 b.c.e., which is after the time of Persias' invasion of most of Israel except Judea and about 100 yrs after Judea's Banylonian captivity for about 50 years. Most of northern Israel disappeared, it's people were absorbed into the Babylonian and the Assyrian. Judea was conquered later, but those captured or exiled were allowed to return to re-inhabit Judea. There is little doubt that during the exile, the judean religion was influenced by the Babylonian, especially the later prophets (the book of Daniel shows the g reatest influence by Zorasterianism). But every people are influenced by their many neighbors, especially in the cross-roads like Persia. So how pure was Zorasterianism? But remember Persian and Assyria- Babylon was the enemy and so some of the teachings are in opposition to the religion of their conqueror. This is where Monotheism really took hold, perhaps as a counter to the dualistic and still polytheistic Zorasterianism. The laws of the Torah have their roots in the Akkadian, in the laws of Hammurabai, but there again the Israelites would have adapted parts of it and changed it to make it more equitable to the poor, the ordinary people who had been slaves to somebody, and to take the power away from the king and give it to the priestly class.
After that, the Greek had some influence on Judea through both the northern Selucid and the Egyptian Ptotemy's. Christianity however is very strongly influenced by the Greek and the Assyrians, where most ot the earliest churches were, except for Rome and Egypt. You see a strong influence by Zorasterianism and later Mithraism, with their concepts of demons, Satan, hell, and heaven. Of course that gets mixed in with Gnosticism, influenced by Plato.
Do try and learn something about Judaism before making ill informed statements.
Zoroastianism is a thousand years YOUNGER than Judaism. It s basic beliefs are also completely different- they have a battle between a "Good" deity (representing order) vs an "evil" deity (representing chaos)- such a belief is considered to be polytheism and forbidden in Judaism- it is found in Christianity and Islam in the form of G-d vs the Devil- but there is no such belief in Judaism, no devil exists in the form that you would fond in Zoroastianism, Christianity and Islam.
Jew/ Christian/ Muslim, did you know Zoroastrianism is your mother religion?
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