Core tenet of Zoroastrianism
The end is renovation.
Frashokereti: evil defeated finally, the dead raised, the world made fresh — the template later apocalypses inherited.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Frashokereti — renovation, making wonderful — is the promised end: a final judgment, a river of molten metal that purifies rather than destroys, the resurrection of the dead, and a world restored to perfection with evil eliminated. Crucially, in the dominant reading, everyone is eventually saved: the molten metal feels like warm milk to the righteous and burns the wicked clean. A universalist eschatology is unusual this early, and it follows from the premise that evil is a temporary intrusion rather than a permanent half of reality.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The dead will rise.
Judaism
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The body rises. Not the soul only.
Christianity
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The grave is not empty waiting.
Islam
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You do not have an immortal soul, so there is nowhere to torment you.
The Christadelphians
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The church will be taken out before the tribulation begins.
The Plymouth Brethren
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The boy who waited three days at Death's door.
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