Monday, November 8, 2010

ZOROASTRIANISM and CHRISTIANITY

Zoroaster was an Iranian philosopher, magician, and astrologer, who lived sometime in the 10-11th century BCE most scholars think. His philosophy is thought to have influenced Plato and Spinosa among others. It is from Zoroaster that Christianity gets its eschatology (final judgment, the book of  Revelation, apocalyptic), good versus evil, dark versus light, and heaven and hell concepts.