[Cogadh na Sith]

Good one...

I've studied the Parsees for quite a while and have incorporated the Zoroastrian concept of God (YHWH--brought back to to Israel by the Hebrews after the 1st Exile) into my own Christian faith.

This is the 'Old Faith', the Faith of Kings. The first belief in the One God once revealed: It is no wonder that these guys were the first to recognize Christ as the Messiah. I'm actually planning on celebrating The Epiphany this year in honor of this...

Furthermore, some speculate because of the extraordinary age of Zoroastrianism that Judaism is a heretic sect of it.

I'll have you know that I have strict instructions with both my friends and my physician that I wish to be excarnated when I die in the Parsee fashion rather than interred or cremated.

That should be some trick to do in this over-regulated world, but I'm sure they will figure it out....

[HiTech RedNeck]

aggggh, syncretism.

well they may put you on a mountaintop and feed you to eagles, but it won't make a whit of difference to your soul. it will be in heaven if you have trusted in Jesus Christ for your eternal life. it will be in hell otherwise.

[Cronos]

Zoroastrianism that Judaism is a heretic sect of it.

I kind of doubt that. I'd say that Judaism was influenced by Z after the exile, but it's not a branch of Z. EVen Parsees say that it can't be older than 1700 B.C. -- which is about the time of Hammurabi or the Mosaic laws (some scholars contend that the Mosaic laws are around that time, making Hammurabi a contemporary of Moses). Judaism and Z can from a similar region, but from different backgrounds -- judaism is semitic, inherently so while Z has it's roots in Aryan religions as I've stated above. Judaim after the exile may well have blended the two together -- and Z was also influenced.

[Cronos]

Furthermore, some speculate because of the extraordinary age of Zoroastrianism that Judaism is a heretic sect of it.

I would doubt that -- the earliest date given for Zoroastrianism is 1700 B.C, and by that time, the initial teachings of monotheistic Judaism were already in place. however, Judaism does seem to have been heavily influenced by them during the exile and subsequent centuries of rule by the Persians.