Frashokereti, the Zoroastrian end of the world, restores creation instead of destroying it: evil is burned out and the healed world is kept forever.
Imported citation, not independently checked: The Bundahishn
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What is Frashokereti in Zoroastrianism?
What Is Frashokereti?
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The end of the world as restoration, not extermination
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In the Bundahishn, the end-time river of molten metal purges the wicked of their wickedness, so every human being who ever lived comes out the far side.
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Zoroastrianism treats matter as the good Lord's good creation, so its end of the world heals the body and the earth instead of escaping them.
Imported citation, not independently checked: M. Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism (1975-1991)
The systematic Frashokereti doctrine survives in Pahlavi books written down around the ninth century CE, so dating it to 500 BCE is genuinely contested.
Imported citation, not independently checked: The Bundahishn; Y. S.-D. Vevaina, "Resurrecting the Resurrection" (2009)
Frashokereti as a systematized vision is late, but the hope of a final renovation is older, though thinner, and is already voiced in the Gathas.
Imported citation, not independently checked: The Gathas (Yasna 30)
The likeness between Frashokereti and the apokatastasis of Acts 3:21 is real resonance, but the late Zoroastrian sources forbid treating it as proven influence.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Acts 3:21; the Bundahishn
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