This history is very vague and precise dates are unknown.
But bigger issue than this is that there is no evidence on development of Zoroastrianism, we don't know whether resurrection was present in Zoroastrianism from the very beginning or whether it come later into their dogma.
for example:
Does Zoroastrianism predate Christianity and is the idea that Christianity borrowed the resurrection of Jesus from the religion believable? – Evidence for Christianity
Cool, I'm sorry, what degree does John Oakes have? Is he a peer-reviewed PhD historian or an amateur apologist whos butthurt that the myths he thinks are true might have been taken from another religion?
Oh look, - John Oakes is a Christian apologist and a professor of chemistry at Grossmont College. He belongs to the Restoration Movement of the Christian tradition.
This is a joke. There are so many errors in this article it's insane. Just one -
"For example, the claim that Zoroastrians believe Zoroaster was resurrected simply is not true. "
No, Zoroaster never claimed that, the Revelation myth is from the Persians. It's dated to at least 6 BC.
Revelations
but Zoroaster taught that the blessed must wait for this culmination till Frashegird and the 'future body' (Pahlavi 'tan i pasen'), when the earth will give up the bones of the dead (Y 30.7). This general resurrection will be followed by the Last Judgment, which will divide all the righteous from the wicked, both those who have lived until that time and those who have been judged already. Then Airyaman, Yazata of friendship and healing, together with Atar, Fire, will melt all the metal in the mountains, and this will flow in a glowing river over the earth. All mankind must pass through this river, and, as it is said in a Pahlavi text, 'for him who is righteous it will seem like warm milk, and for him who is wicked, it will seem as if he is walking in the • flesh through molten metal' (GBd XXXIV. r 8-r 9). In this great apocalyptic vision Zoroaster perhaps fused, unconsciously, tales of volcanic eruptions and streams of burning lava with his own experience of Iranian ordeals by molten metal; and according to his stern original teaching, strict justice will prevail then, as at each individual j udgment on earth by a fiery ordeal. So at this last ordeal of all the wicked will suffer a second death, and will perish off the face of the earth. The Daevas and legions of darkness will already have been annihilated in a last great battle with the Yazatas; and the river of metal will flow down into hell, slaying Angra Mainyu and burning up the last vestige of wickedness in the universe.
Ahura Mazda and the six Amesha Spentas will then solemnize a lt, spiritual yasna, offering up the last sacrifice (after which death wW be no more), and making a preparation of the mystical 'white haoma', which will confer immortality on the resurrected bodies of all the blessed, who will partake of it. Thereafter men will beome like the Immortals themselves, of one thought, word and deed, unaging, free from sickness, without corruption, forever joyful in the kingdom of God upon earth. For it is in this familiar and beloved world, restored to its original perfection, that, according to Zoroaster, eternity will be passed in bliss, and not in a remote insubstantial Paradise. So the time of Separation is a renewal of the time of Creation, except that no return is prophesied to the original uniqueness of living things. Mountain and valley will give place once more to level plain; but whereas in the beginning there was one plant, one animal, one man, the rich variety and number that have since issued from these will remain forever. Similarly the many divinities who were brought into being by Ahura Mazda will continue to have their separate existences. There is no prophecy of their re-absorption into the Godhead. As a Pahlavi text puts it, after Frashegird 'Ohrmaid and the Amahraspands and all Yazads and men will be together. .. ; every place will resemble a garden in spring, in which
there are all kinds of trees and flowers ... and it will be entirely the creation of Ohrrnazd' (Pahl.Riv.Dd. XLVIII, 99, lOO, l07).
He says Moses is older but you JUST SOURCED A WIKI ARTICLE that says they don't know, he might have lived in 1600 BC. Mary Boyce, the scholar who spent her life studying this thought there was enough evidence for this. The apologist, chemistry teacher doesn't agree.
"This includes Matthew, John and Peter. If the Jesus story is a myth, then some of the greatest, most honest and sacrificial people who ever lived, such as Paul, John, Matthew and others were blatant liars. "
Christian scholarship has long since ad,mitted Matthew is a creative re-interpretation of Mark (synoptic problem), yes they wrote fiction. So does all of the Muslim religious writers, Mormon writers, Hindu writers......
"he Bible says that Jesus was raised from the dead is that there were more than 500 eye-witnesses to the fact, as reported by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:6."
The Bible is fiction. Paul claimed to see a ghost Jesus already in heaven. Yes, he stretched the truth.
"The early church did not borrow the idea of the resurrection from a religion which radically contradicts the Christian message. "
No, Mark a skilled writer in Greek fiction did.
" You will not find any of the claimed parallels between Jesus and Zoroaster in these books. "
The Persian religion influenced Judaism in other ways already mentioned. Resurrection, Satan, Revelation, God vs Evil
"As for parallels, there is an idea of bodily resurrection in Zoroastrianism. Whether this was included in the religion before the time of Christ is hard to say, but what we can say is that, in any case, the Avesta does not claim that Zoroaster himself was resurrected from the dead. So much for the parallel between Jesus and Zoroaster and for the idea that the church got the idea of the resurrection from the Avesta. "
So he admits it. But noone ever said Jesus was modeled after Zoroaster??? He's a Greek dying/rising demigod of salvation?
"They claim that his was a virgin birth."
As I demonstrated the world savior will be virgin born in the Persian Revelation myth above?
"It is hard to prove either that Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism or that Judaism influenced Zoroastrianism. "
No it's not. Historians are fully aware that Judaism was influenced by the Persian religion.
" The ones which are perhaps arguably indeed parallel are more likely explained by borrowing of Zoroastrianism from Christianity th"
During the Persian occupation there was no Christianity. This is when the OT began prophecizing messianic saviors already in Zoroastrianism.
Literally every sentence this man says is wrong. Your source is a chemistry teacher. Not ONE source. Every sentence contained an error or a fallacy. This stuff is awful. People believe this?
You do not care about what is actually true.
