Do mormons really believe that God lives on a star near the planet Kolob?

Answer 1

We don't really know where he lives, there is no doctrine that says "God lives here", but Kolob is said to be the name of the place, we don't know where it is.
This is one of my favorite hymns - it is beautiful

"If you could hie to Kolob"
1. If you could hie to Kolob In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward With that same speed to fly,
Do you think that you could ever, Through all eternity,
Find out the generation Where Gods began to be?

2. Or see the grand beginning, Where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation, Where Gods and matter end?
Me thinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found ‘pure space,’
Nor seen the outside curtains, Where nothing has a place.”

3. The works of God continue, And worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression Have one eternal round.
There is no end to matter; There is no end to space;
There is no end to spirit; There is no end to race.

4. There is no end to virtue; There is no end to might;
There is no end to wisdom; There is no end to light.
There is no end to union; There is no end to youth;
There is no end to priesthood; There is no end to truth.

5. There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above.
There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above.

Answer 2

if you have the pearl of great price please look up in Abraham chapter 3. it says that kolob is the nearest planet to god. Means that kolob is physically nearest unto god the father, he lives on a celestrialized planet like what this planet will become after the final judgement.
If you have additional questions contact the missionaries of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints.

Answer 3

Check This Out! http://nowscape.com/mormon/mormons5.htm

Answer 4

God may live there...But God is everywhere on this planet...You just cannot see him...Just like for example Cats and Dogs and other animals can see and hear things that we people cannot see or hear...Maybe that's a bad example but what I'm saying is just because you cannot touch, feel, see something does not mean it is not there....all in your face and all around you...

Answer 5

In the 20 years I spent as a Mormon, I never once heard that.

Answer 6

Apparently the Mormons on this site aren't reading the BOM - it's in Abraham.

Answer 7

No! I should know I am a member of the church of jesus christ of Latter Day Saints. (or Mormon as you call it) That is just ridiculous.

Answer 8

No we don't. I am a mormon and I've never heard that before.

Answer 9

The first known reference to Kolob is found in the Book of Abraham, which The LDS Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. translated from a set of Egyptian scrolls that accompanied a traveling mummy exhibition, which passed through Smith's town of Kirtland, Ohio in 1835. According to the Prophet, the scrolls described a vision of Abraham, in which Abraham:

"saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God;....and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest." (Book of Abraham 3:2-3.)
In an explanation of an Egyptian hypocephalus that was part of the Book of Abraham scrolls, Joseph Smith interpreted one set of hieroglyphics as representing:

"Kolob, signifying the first creation, nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God. First in government, the last pertaining to the measurement of time. The measurement according to celestial time, which celestial time signifies one day to a cubit. One day in Kolob is equal to a thousand years according to the measurement of this earth, which is called by the Egyptians Jah-oh-eh." (Book of Abraham, Facsimile 2, Figure #1 explanation.)
The Book of Abraham describes a hierarchy of heavenly bodies, including the earth, its moon, and the sun, each with different movements and measurements of time, where at the pinacle, the slowest-revolving body is Kolob, where one Kolob-day corresponds to 1000 earth-years:

"...Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time, according to the reckoning of Kolob.
"... The planet which is the lesser light...is above or greater than that upon which thou standest in point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as to its number of days, and of months, and of years. [This is in reference to the moon: see Genesis 1:16.]
"And where these two facts exist, there shall be another fact above them, that is, there shall be another planet whose reckoning of time shall be longer still; and thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord’s time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest."

Answer 10

Mabye. I never read the book.

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