Zoroastrianism

Tradition·Founded c. 1200 BCE·est. 100–200 thousand worldwide

Zoroastrianism

Branch
Core tenet of Zoroastrianismheld by most

In the end everyone is saved.

The developed eschatology has the dead raised, the whole of creation passed through a flood of molten metal — pleasant as warm milk to the good, agonising to the wicked — and then all souls, including those in hell, restored. Evil is not merely defeated but abolished, and hell empties.

Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

Frashokereti, the making wonderful, is the universal restoration, and it is unusually generous. At the end of the twelve-thousand-year cycle the dead are raised in their bodies, the Saoshyant presides, and all of creation passes through a river of molten metal — which the righteous experience as walking through warm milk and the wicked as agony, but which purges rather than destroys. Hell empties. Angra Mainyu is either destroyed or rendered powerless, evil ceases to exist rather than being permanently quarantined, and the world is restored to the perfection it had before the assault. Every soul, including those who chose the lie, is ultimately saved. This is a genuine apokatastasis and it is doctrinally central rather than a minority speculation, which distinguishes it from the equivalent Christian position associated with Origen, which was condemned. Some later Zoroastrian sources are less universalist, and the details vary across texts.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
A Amitabha — the buddha of infinite light. Buddhism · figure Meet them →
M Marudevi on the elephant. Jainism · figure Meet them →
The dead will rise. Judaism Go deeper →
The resurrection defeated death. Christianity Go deeper →
Mercy outruns wrath. Islam Go deeper →

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