How Christianity 'Stole' from Zoroastrianism

Before Jesus, there was Zoroaster — and more of your Bible than you think comes from him.

From Persia to the Bible — how Zoroastrian ideas of heaven, hell, angels, and a final judgment found new life in Christianity.

When Christians attacked Zoroastrianism in the 6th century, they weren’t confronting a strange or alien religion — they were clashing with the very faith that had already shaped their own. Long before Jesus, Zoroastrianism had la…