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Old 09-16-2010, 02:54 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
IIRC, one flavor of Zoroastrianism believed that Ormuzd (the good spirit) and Ahriman (the bad spirit) were equally powerful, and it was not a foregone conclusion that good would triumph over evil. There's a Christian heresy (whose name I'm forgetting), that had similar ideas, and was a cause of controversy in the early church. They may have gotten the notion from the Zoroastrians.
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Some of the Gnostics, an early off-shoot of Christianity, held similar beliefs.
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