Zoroastrianism's influence on the Israelites

[AlexPetrosPio]

Zoroastrianism’s definition of Ahura Mazda is actually as a universal, uncreated, and transcendent deity. [Sound familiar?]

Of course it sounds familiar. It’s called “logic.” See Aristotle’s and St Thomas’s First Cause arguments.

 

[TheAtheist]

Of course it sounds familiar. It’s called “logic.” See Aristotle’s and St Thomas’s First Cause arguments.

Eh…if that were necessarily the case, we wouldn’t have had Henotheism at all in the Middle East.

As for the claims to Logic - you do realize that Aristotle has built-in assumptions to his logical system that are not universally evident?

Take a look at Dharmakirti in India and Gongsun Long in China. - And I don’t mean their wikipedia articles - if you want try the Stanford site on cross-cultural philosophy.

But this is old news - far more learned men on this very forum (Rossum and Contarini to name two) have hashed this one out a long long time ago… You can dig up their threads if you like.