>Monotheism>Duality of good and evil>Concept of Paradise and Hell and of an afterlife>God's creation of the world in 7 days>Rebirth and triumph of light over death>Angels and guardian spirits>Ethics of moral living and personal responsibility>Doctrines of free will, sin and redemption>Prophecy of apocalyptic battle>Resurrection, Final Judgment and Messiah>Fire purification and purgatory>Prophet born on 25th December, born of a virgin in the presence of shepherds, and remained celibate>Prophet had twelve disciples of his early followers who helped spread the word of God through the land>Baptism ritual bath>Sacred meal of bread marked with a cross and wine as sacrificial blood>Sunday worship; day of the sun god>Imagery of light and sun>Halo iconography>Use of incense in worship>Three wise men; Zoroastrian Magi>Men call each other 'brother' and led by a priest called 'father'>Winter solstice festival in late December, gathering of family, exchanging of gifts, decorating evergreen trees (Yalda)>Amu Nowruz - bearded elderly father figure who travels the world bringing gifts to children at the end of the year, magically visiting homes and eating some of the food left out>Cyrus the Great as model of righteous kingship, religious freedom, shaping of Enlightenment and Christian humanism>Stories of Zarathustra walking on water and performing miracles such as curing the blind (possibly just ancient Near Eastern tropes)>Stories of divine intervention (possibly just another trope)>Story of a hero instructed by divinity to preserve life in an ark to repopulate the earth after a great flood>Prophet murdered by religious oppositionI can't help but come to the conclusion that Christianity and much of Christian tradition originates largely from Iranian religion and customs, be it Zoroastrian or Mithraic. Although one major exception would be Easter.What are your thoughts?
A lot of those don't belong there and a lot of what is Iranicate in Christianity comes via Judaism. In that vein, see also the recent paper by Gad Barnea on the burning bush for one more truly Zoroastrian motif.
>>18241810>Duality of good and evilI was looking into Orthodoxy and they say Christianity is not dualistic, don't remember the theology though
>>18241824Didn't Temple Judaism originate in the Persian empire? Cyrus was their gentile Messiah
>>18241824circumcision?
>>18241810>What are your thoughts?Christianity asserts that it is the reassertion of the truth about the nature of God and its relationship with man, a truth that was present at the beginning but became confused and spread out among many diverging branching religions that had their genesis from one source.
>>18241912>a truth that was present at the beginning but became confused and spread out among many diverging branching religionsWhat kind of christianity teaches that? Because OG christianity taught that Christianity was the truth and everything else was demon-adjacent
>>18241913It is the Truth in which all truths are perfected, but obviously this does not apply to the impotent noahidism being paraded around these days as if that was "christianity"
>Khosrau Anushirawan commissioned Zoroastrian writings right before he planned to kidnap thousands of Christians from the Byzantine empire>Sasanian empire was exposed to Christianity for centuries before said writings>Present year we're still pretending that Zoroastrian was a precursor to anything.
