Guest guest Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 What I'm starting to wonder about all this good/evil stuff is if it's really Christianity or the effects of Zoroastrianism on Christianity. I'm reading up on it and the whole thing about the God/Devil dichotomy is Zoroastrian; as is the idea of guardian angels, heaven in the afterlife and more that we think of as Christian even though there is only a very loose basis of it in the Bible - for instance, where in the Bible does it say anything about guardian angels??? Zoroaster was the one who came up with the whole thing about the universal battle between good and evil and the need to choose sides. So we can take it two ways - our religion has been contaminated by a pagan religion; or God revealed more than we'd like to know to someone outside of our exclusive faith. Weird, huh? Like He did to Akhenaten, Cyrus, and Deganawida. Makes me go " Hmmm " . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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