RE:Dr Singh's daughter
by Cutlet Gravy on Jun 22, 2007 07:39 PM
@ Saccha Hindustani on Jun 22, 2007 07:14 PM
You vada pao,
you seem to live in the land of biblical idiots.
Now it was from this very creed of Zoroaster that the Jews derived all the angiology of their religion...the belief in a future state; of rewards and punishments, ...the soul's immortality, and the Last Judgment -- all of them essential parts of the Zoroastrian creed.
"First, the figure of Satan, originally a servant of God, appointed by Him as His prosecutor, came more and more to resemble Ahriman, the enemy of God. Secondly, the figure of the Messiah, originally a future King of Israel who would save his people from oppression, evolved, in Deutero-Isaiah for instance, into a universal Savior very similar to the Iranian Saoshyant. Other points of comparison between Iran and Israel include the doctrine of the millennia; the Last Judgment; the heavenly book in which human actions are inscribed; the Resurrection; the final transformation of the earth; paradise on earth or in heaven; and hell."
Fundamentally the Jews were polytheists. But whatever its date, the idea of the covenant tells us that the Israelites were not yet monotheists, since it only made sense in a polytheistic setting. God stated that there are many gods: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:3). The full monotheistic conception of God came later (Isaiah 43:10-13, Jer 10:1-16). Zorostrianism (6th century B C )precedes all other religions known to mankind.
