why do we say "Abrahamic religions"?

Question

we should say "Zoroasteric religions" because the prophet Zoroaster if you refer to the link bellow was the true founder of the four Abrahamic religions of:

Christianity
Judaism
Islam
and Bahá'i


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism

Answer 1

because Aberham was the accepted founder of Judaism. which led to Christianity and Islam. the people of these religions will never believe anything else so it is easier to call it Abrihamic.

Answer 2

You have a point there. Thanks for the question. The Persian influence can be seen in so many distinguishing features of the New Testament world. So many things such as heaven, hell, angels, demons, etc in the NT were directly influenced by Zoroastrianism. The following quotation form Wikipedia is informative.

"Zoroastrianism is uniquely important in the history of religion because of its possible formative links to both Western Abrahamic and Eastern dharmic religious traditions.

Some scholars (Boyce, 1987; Black and Rowley, 1987; Duchesne-Guillemin, 1988) believe that large portions of the eschatology, angelology, and demonology (see Asmodai) of Judaism, a key influence on Christianity and Islam, originated in Zoroastrianism, and were transferred to Judaism during the Babylonian captivity (apparently 100 years before the emergence of monotheistic Zoroastrianism) and the Persian era, despite the numerous structural differences in the belief systems, crucial to the faiths, as in the issue over whether the evil spirit is a product of the good spirit.

Some also believe monotheism to have been a Zoroastrian influence, as Deutero-Isaiah supposedly makes a first monotheistic declaration (Isaiah 45:5-7) during the reign of the Persian Kings, that corresponds to his declaration that Jews were to obey Cyrus.


The Cyrus Cylinder, sometimes described as the "first charter of human rights"According to Mary Boyce "Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the revealed credal religions, and it has probably had more influence on mankind, directly or indirectly, than any other single faith... some of its leading doctrines were adopted by Judaism, Christianity and Islam". (Boyce, 1979, pg 1) Zoroastrianism has been proposed as the source of some of the most important post-Torah aspects of Judaic religious thinking, which emerged after the Babylonian captivity, from which Jews were liberated by Cyrus the Great."

Answer 3

Actually, the article says (pay attention to the words in caps):

"ACCORDING TO Mary Boyce "Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the REVEALED credal religions, and it has PROBABLY had more INFLUENCE on mankind, directly or indirectly, than any other single faith... SOME of its leading doctrines were adopted by Judaism, Christianity and Islam". (Boyce, 1979, pg 1) Zoroastrianism has been PROPOSED as the source of SOME of the most important post-Torah aspects of Judaic religious thinking..." [Emphasis added.]
_______________

Those words don't offer proof - in fact, they leave a lot of room for doubt. Nor do they say that Zoroaster "was the true founder" of anything, as you claim. If Adam and Eve had the Gospel on earth at their time, and if they knew about Christ and God (which they did), then Christianity was here LONG before any Zoroaster, and he no doubt borrowed from Christianity and other beliefs to form his own hodge podge religion.

Answer 4

Ok I understand that you believe in the prophet Zoroaster, but as a Christian, I can say that Christianity and Judaism trace back to Abraham, not Zoroaster. And God is really the founder.

Answer 5

while Zoroastrianism has profoundly influenced the Abrahamic religions, they were originally based on the monothesistic teachings of Abraham. Though in fact Christianity is much more similar to Zoroastrianism now, with its teachings of trinity and a split between good and evil. (Satan)

Answer 6

What hollynicity and chris j said. Abraham is called the Father of the Faithful. Jews, Christrians and even Muslims look to him as their Father in the Faith.
I Cr 13;8a
11-7-6

Answer 7

Since I'm a Christian, I would have to go with the Bible explanation of Abraham being the "Friend of God" and the first individual to whom God offered a covenant.

He offered it to the Jews, made a prediction about the strife of the children of Ishmael, and ultimately offered salvation to every one.

Sorry if that upsets anyone, but that's what is written.

Answer 8

In fact Abraham (pbuh) is father (grand father and great grand father ) of all prophets. GOD named and called him (Abraham - pbuh) as Khalil Ullah (Friend of GOD).

The belief or religion of Abraham (pbuh) was that there is no GOD but ONE GOD (to be worshiped) and that is called 'Abrahamic Religion'. That's Y this basic idealogy is common in all religions.

Answer 9

You are misinformed.... God decreed the begining of The Nation of Israel(the Jews)... God decreed the founding of The Church( The True Christian Faith)... The God of Abraham has absolutly nothing to do with the evil that is islam or with bahai whatever.

Answer 10

Because of the political power of Catholic church. Many terms, dates and festivities were imposed to the whole western world.