You could be right that other influences affected Christianity and
Judaism. However you fail to note that "God is One" which is a central
feature of both Judaism and Christianity. Both Judaism and
Christianity are Monotheistic religions.
Marshall
Darrick wrote:
> Jesus' "religion" was not "Judaism". The religion of the Jews was the
> wor****p of YAH, and did NOT include any belief in the Afterlife.
>
> The Old Testament contains NOTHING about the Afterlife, or any
> afterlife rewards or punishments.
>
>
> When the Jews were taken captive to Babylon for 70 years in 600 B.C.,
> they confronted a religion called Masdayasnan. It was also called
> "The
> Way of Good" or just "The Way". Paul said in Acts that he belonged to
> a sect called "The Way".
>
>
> The Jews that rejected the Persian religion were called Sadducees.
> They believed in the Torah only, which says NOTHING of any Paradise
> or
> Hell. The Jews that accepted the Persian religion were called
> FAROOSHEEM ("Pharisees" in Greek). The name FAROO****M meant
> "Persians"
> in Hebrew.
>
>
> There were different "Sects" of Pharisees (Faroosheem); one of the
> most strict being the NASAREEM (Nazerenes), whose village was called
> "Nazareth" (place of the Nazarenes).
>
>
> In the Gospels Jesus tells the thief on the Cross, "Truly, I say unto
> you, this day you will be with me in Pardes".
>
>
> "Pardes" is NOT a Hebrew or Aramaic nor Greek word. It is FARSEE
> (Persian) and comes directly from the religion of Persia. It means
> "Garden".
>
>
> Jesus said, "El is the God of the living and not the god of the
> dead".
> He meant that literally. El, or YAH, is the Persian Angra Mainyu, who
> is the "God" of the Material World. The "God" of the Spiritual World
> (the dead) is Ahura Mazda: the Only Wise Lord.
>
>
> YAH did not promise Moses nor the Israelites any Paradise or Hell
> because He is not the God of the Spirit World, but rather the God of
> the material world, and can only "curse" and "bless" those who are
> alive.
>
>
> The Jews had NO belief in the Afterlife UNTIL they were held captive
> by the Babylonians (and later Persians who conquered the
> Babylonians).
> The term "Hell" found in the Old Testament is SHOEL and refers to the
> cold dead grave, nothing more. The Book of Ecclestiates says "the
> dead
> known nothing" and that the plans of men END when they are dead. The
> term "SOUL" in the Old Testament simply means "Breath" and did not
> mean any immortal spirit that survives death. There was NO belief in
> an afterlife, no belief in any resurrection of the dead UNTIL the
> Jews
> were taken to Babylon and Persia.
>
>
> The religion of "Judaism" in Jesus' day was that of the Sadduccees,
> and they rejected any notion of any Afterlife, Paradise, Hell, they
> considered all these "Persian" doctrines and not Jewish at all.
>
>
> The God of the Old Testament, who calls Himself "I AM" (YAH) and "I
> AM
> THAT I AM" (YAHOOWAH) is Angra Mainyu, was an angry and jealous God
> who commanded the Canaanites, men women and children, to be killed.
> He
> commanded Israelite women (Not men) to be killed for adultery, male
> homo***uality (not female), eating shell-fish, breaking the Sabbath,
> and using His name in vain. HE IS NOT THE LOVING "FATHER" JESUS TOLD
> US ABOUT.
>
>
> The loving Heavenly Father is Ahura Mazda, the God of the Dead, the
> God of Light (Spiritual Realm) of the ancient Persian Prophet
> Zoroaster.
>
>
> The religion of Ahura Mazda contains much material, about as much as
> the Bible. It describes the TRUTH about Paradise and Hell-fire and
> how
> we are saved and judged.
>
>
> The Religion of Mazda included a special caste of ministers called
> "MAGOI". These were hermaphrodytes (men-women) who were considered
> dual-spirits (male and female). They were considered to be able to
> work supernatural acts (we get the word "MAGIC" from MAGOI--plural
> for
> MAGUS). The "three wise men" who saw Jesus' star in the East were
> MAGOI. The Prophet Daniel became the Chief Magoi of the Emperor
> Nebuchadezzar (Daniel chapter 5). They were ZOROASTRIANS.
>
>
> It was probably Daniel, during his reign as Rab Mag (Head Magus) for
> the Babylonian empire that the belief in the "Messiah" arose among
> the
> Jews. He job that directly from the Religion of Mazda.
>
>
> The Prophet Zoroaster told of three SAOSHAYNTS ("Saviors") who would
> be born of virgins. One was King Koresh (Cyrus), the Persian Emperor.
> Another was Jesus. And the third was born in Jerusalem in 1909, the
> son of a Palestinian Christian woman. He performed thousands of
> supernatural miracles. His name was DAHESH....
>
>
> Read more about Him at.....
> http://www.angelfire.com/mo3/dahesh/
>
>
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