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Fascinating Talmud statement about life on other planets
OdKahaneChai:
--- Quote from: chakma613 on August 17, 2007, 10:26:33 AM ---The Gemara(part of the Talmud), states that there is a inhabited star called Maroz, but I don't know much else about it..any thoughts? Personally I think that since it's a star, the life that exists on it must be totally different from the life on Earth, possibly not even carbon-based. Also, the Gemara in mesekta Avodah Zarah says that everyday G-d travels throughout many worlds - why would G-d "visit" other worlds if there was not life on them?
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I think, since the word really translates as "lights," I don't think it's necessarily physical. It could be purely spiritual, and the "inhabitants" angels. I don't believe Hashem created any physical life outside of Earth.
White Israelite:
--- Quote from: OdKahaneChai on August 23, 2007, 03:01:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: chakma613 on August 17, 2007, 10:26:33 AM ---The Gemara(part of the Talmud), states that there is a inhabited star called Maroz, but I don't know much else about it..any thoughts? Personally I think that since it's a star, the life that exists on it must be totally different from the life on Earth, possibly not even carbon-based. Also, the Gemara in mesekta Avodah Zarah says that everyday G-d travels throughout many worlds - why would G-d "visit" other worlds if there was not life on them?
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I think, since the word really translates as "lights," I don't think it's necessarily physical. It could be purely spiritual, and the "inhabitants" angels. I don't believe Hashem created any physical life outside of Earth.
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What purpose to add so many planets then if there is no life outside of our planet? The universe is a very large place. I remember asking a question about alien life on other planets on askmoses.com, I was told that it is possible life exists but if they do, then they would not have free will. Does that mean life on other planets would be equivalent to animal life?
HiWarp:
--- Quote from: OdKahaneChai link=topic=7908.msg73318#msg73318 date= ---
--- Quote from: chakma613 link=topic=7908.msg70944#msg70944 date= ---The Gemara(part of the Talmud), states that there is a inhabited star called Maroz, but I don't know much else about it..any thoughts? Personally I think that since it's a star, the life that exists on it must be totally different from the life on Earth, possibly not even carbon-based. Also, the Gemara in mesekta Avodah Zarah says that everyday G-d travels throughout many worlds - why would G-d "visit" other worlds if there was not life on them?
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I think, since the word really translates as "lights," I don't think it's necessarily physical. It could be purely spiritual, and the "inhabitants" angels. I don't believe Hashem created any physical life outside of Earth.
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I cannot believe, given the vastness of the universe that we are aware of, the possibility of the parts of the universe that we cannot see being much larger and the possibility of the existence of dimensions that we cannot see, that Earth is the only place that G-d saw fit to create life.
chakma613:
--- Quote from: Cohen on August 23, 2007, 03:06:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: OdKahaneChai on August 23, 2007, 03:01:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: chakma613 on August 17, 2007, 10:26:33 AM ---The Gemara(part of the Talmud), states that there is a inhabited star called Maroz, but I don't know much else about it..any thoughts? Personally I think that since it's a star, the life that exists on it must be totally different from the life on Earth, possibly not even carbon-based. Also, the Gemara in mesekta Avodah Zarah says that everyday G-d travels throughout many worlds - why would G-d "visit" other worlds if there was not life on them?
--- End quote ---
I think, since the word really translates as "lights," I don't think it's necessarily physical. It could be purely spiritual, and the "inhabitants" angels. I don't believe Hashem created any physical life outside of Earth.
--- End quote ---
What purpose to add so many planets then if there is no life outside of our planet? The universe is a very large place. I remember asking a question about alien life on other planets on askmoses.com, I was told that it is possible life exists but if they do, then they would not have free will. Does that mean life on other planets would be equivalent to animal life?
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Excellent point - if we say that life exists, we perforce have to say that this life has free will(UNLIKE angels), however they could be a type of life totally difffeent from anything we know, maybe even aphysical, or anaphasic(sp?)
Xgamer:
--- Quote from: Cohen on August 21, 2007, 07:33:32 PM ---Interesting topic, I know i'd be freaked out if one day we were visiting mars or something and found the torah or a star of david somewhere on the planet.
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There is a face there, and Actually I heard the Face on Mars was actually true. Even though NASA tried to 'debunk' it, some guy made a 3d image of it and shot it from different views and it looked like a face in all of them.
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