The Hidden Thread: The Holy Ghost Was Zoroastrian
How Spenta Mainyu Became the Third Person of the Christian Trinity — and Why the Church Fathers Knew It The Hidden Thread — Part 2 of 5 In the third century of the Common Era, one of the most influential theologians in the history of Christianity sat down and wrote something that the Church has been quietly stepping around for 1,800 years.
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How Spenta Mainyu Became the Third Person of the Christian Trinity — and Why the Church Fathers Knew It The Hidden Thread — Part 2 of 5 In the third century of the Common Era, one of the most influential theologians in the history of Christianity sat down and wrote something that the Church has been quietly stepping around for 1,800 years. His name was Origen of Alexandria — a man widely considered the most brilliant mind of early Christianity, a man whose writings shaped the theological architecture of the faith for centuries, a man the Catholic Church would later declare a heretic not because he was wrong but because he was too honest. Origen wrote this: "God created Logos or the Son. His relation to the Father is the same as that which exists between Ahura Mazda and Spenta Mainyu." Read that again.
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Yasna · Avesta
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Mary Boyce · R.C. Zaehner