Denise Evans: > When the World Ends... > The 'end of the world' idea originated with Zoraster, the radical dualist that lived BCE. It was his origninal idea that the world would come to an end after the arrival of a savior to win the battle between good and evil.
This radical eschatology has been inherited by all of the Abrahamic religions, Jewish, Islamic, Gnostic, and Protestant, through Mani. The first historical world religion was 'Mazdaism', sometimes called Zoroastrianism, the religion of Ahura Mazda: a firm belief in a transcendent God.
