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The Pope's been arrested...

...they're airing a pre-recorded mass performed by Pope Francis and his immediate subordinates. According to this live stream, (youtu.be) it is currently raining and dark in Vatican city which is consistent with the weather report for Vatican City (duckduckgo.com), but the streamed mass on CatholicTV dot org, (catholictv.org) suggests it's a bright sunny day.

Pray for Pope Benedict.

...they're airing a pre-recorded mass performed by Pope Francis and his immediate subordinates. According [to this live stream,](https://youtu.be/4Rb7_WdNlZY) it is currently raining and dark in Vatican city which is consistent with [the weather report for Vatican City](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+vatican+city+rome&t=ffsb&atb=v199-3__&ia=weather), but [the streamed mass on CatholicTV dot org,](https://www.catholictv.org/watch-live.html) suggests it's a bright sunny day. Pray for Pope Benedict.

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Zoroastrianism is older and held that belief long before Christianity. https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/zoroastrian/beliefs/god.shtml

FTA "It is generally accepted that in the Abrahamic religions, the concepts of Heaven and Hell, as well as the Devil, were heavily influenced by Zoroastrian belief."

I'm not questioning your faith, it's just mine is different. I would never ask or insist you do anything because of what I believe.

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I don't see where it says Christians got their belief of Hell from the Zorastrians. Where is the evidence for that claim?

Hell is taught in the Old Testament. Christianity is prefigured in the Old Testament which goes back to the beginning of man with Adam. Yet, a religion that predates another doesn't mean the newer religion got a belief from the older. That's not logically sound. Plus, there are many pagans all over the world whose beliefs are similar yet they never came into contact with each other.

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It is the last line in the article. All religions are dirivative of previous religions. Buddhist sent missionaries into the Middle East. Christianity mirrors numerous religions that came before it and were around at the same time. Sumer, Greek and many others had stories strikingly similar to the Jesus story. If you want to believe in Hell, go ahead. My point is I don't know if there is a Hell or not, Nobody knows how much of any of it is true. Faith is believing something of which you have no proof. Those people that steered me wrong won't be there if I am ever held accountable. I would like for God to believe I, at least put some thought into it before I bought whatever was dished out to me.

Cheers!

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Many religions want to claim that their beliefs are older and they influenced others, but there is no proof that Christians or the Hebrews borrowed from Zoroastrianism. That bbc article doesn't provide any proof. They just claim that Zorastrianism is older (there is no proof that it's older than the OT religion) therefore the jews got the belief from them. Zoroaster was supposedly born during the time of the Babylonian captivity. It's more likely he got his beliefs from the Jews (prophecies of the Christ predate the Babylonian captivity).

We do have proof of faith. We have scripture, the prophets, and Christ himself. To say there is no hell is calling Christ a liar. Christ spoke many times about hell.