Zoroastrianism: The Ethical Value Of Religion

What is scripture and why is it important to us as human beings? Scriptures are not only something that you read, but it is a way of life. We think of scriptures as the holy writing, the sacred text of religion. Most scriptures are closed canons which means they are fixed religion. Some scriptures tell historical narratives. They tell an event in story form. Other scriptures have comparatively few narratives or none at all. Scriptures comes in many forms; myth, legend, prophecy, sermons, love poems, divination, magic, and many others. Some scriptures contain songs for sacrifice, whereas others have no ceremonies. Every religion has specific things that your higher upper asks for you to do. The scriptures are like the rules of life that you …show more content…
Only 10,000 survived in remote villages in Iran, but over the centuries many sough religious freedom in India. The people who follow Zoroastrianism call their god Ahura Mazda, the creator of all that is good and who alone is worthy of worship. Zoroaster taught that man must enlist in cosmic struggle because of his capacity of free choice. Zoroastrianism is a very ethical religion in which the choice of good over evil is very important. Humans are free to choose between right and wrong, truth and life, and light and dark, and that their choices will affect their eternity destiny. Those who do more good than evil go to heaven and those who do more evil than good go to hell. The good outweighs the bad and the bad outweighs the good depending on how you do during your life. When people who follow this religion die they are put on top of a tower of silence naked while birds eat their flesh until there is nothing left but …show more content…
Christianity is a very kind, warm hearted and forgiving religion. Christianity was in the West, though it has spread to every continent and is now the largest religion in the world. Traditional Christian beliefs include the belief in the one and only true God, who is one being and exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the belief that Jesus is the divine and human Messiah sent to the save the world. Christianity teaches salvation from sin and the gift of eternal life though the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus Chris is seen as the savior, the Messiah for all Christians. Jesus Chris is who died for our sins so that we could start from new. Like most religions, Christian believers are meant to do the right thing and to treat others like they want to be treated. Christians are meant to follow the Ten Commandments which are in the bible and those Ten Commandments are basically the guidelines to a Christian believer’s life. The Ten Commandments are simple laid our rules of the religion that people should follow in order to reach spiritual goals which is to go to heaven after we pass and to stay away from committing a sin. First commandment is simple; thou shalt have no other gods before me, this means that there is only one god. Second, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the