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To: goldstategop

The perfect answer is Christianity. I suspect that the "wise men" from the East who came to the manager to honor Jesus were Zorastrian. That faith has a messianic theme. I have long considered Christianity to be "fulfilled Judiasm". I wonder could it be considered fulfilled Zorastorianism too?


12 posted on 09/05/2004 8:47:01 PM PDT by Ahban (I doubt they are monitoring FR, but loose lips and all of that)
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To: Ahban
I suspect that the "wise men" from the East who came to the manager to honor Jesus were Zorastrian.

They could have been -- they were considered to be "wise men", the distance would have been right, and they were known to study the stars and be influenced by what they saw in them.

33 posted on 09/05/2004 9:34:35 PM PDT by FITZ
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..."I suspect that the "wise men" from the East"...

The "wise men" were Jews looking for their Messiah. The Jews were enslaved by Persia for many years and allowed to go home. Some stayed in Persia. These "wise men" were probably Jewish leftovers that had done well in Persia, so they stayed. The whole point of the Bible story was fulfilled prophesy of the Jews. I'm sure the Jews that wrote the Bible didn't have a care about the beliefs of Zorastrian's. Many Jews were looking for the Messiah at the time He came.

50 posted on 09/05/2004 11:17:28 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: Ahban

Angels, a last judgement, the appearance of a saviour, the resurrection of the dead, Satan, are all Zoroastrian concepts, probably picked by the Jews during the Babylonian captivity.


59 posted on 09/06/2004 4:21:02 AM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns)
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