Please explain this to me, some have told me it's the planet we believe God lives on, and others said it's a star near that planet? I had never heard of any of this stuff and it never came up in my missionary lessons?
2007-05-10 16:31:30 · 14 answers · asked by McLovin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The star nearest to the place where our Father in Heaven lives! I'm Mormon, and learning about stuff like this just confuses people, like the first person that left a comment. Learn the basics of our religion first, then build upon them by prayer, reading the scriptures and the book of mormon and actually asking a mormon face to face about questions that you have. Kolob is such a deep doctrine for you right now, that to give it justice would first be for you to learn more about the basics of the religion we belong too! Good luck in your search!
2007-05-10 16:52:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
in case you ought to hie to Kolob in the quick while, and then proceed onward with that comparable velocity to fly, do you think of which you will ever, with the aid of all eternity, locate out the era the place gods began to be? Or see the grand commencing up the place area would not improve? Or view the final introduction the place gods and rely end? Methinks the spirit whispers, "No guy has got here upon 'organic area' nor seen the exterior curtains the place not something has a place." The works of God proceed, and worlds and lives abound. progression and progression have one eternal around. there is not any end to rely, there is not any end to area. there is not any end to spirit, there is not any end to race.
2016-10-15 08:31:12 · answer #2 · answered by bergman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kolob is the sun that God's planet revolves around.
I am Mormon, and I know there are several different rumors and theories surrounding this. Just as our sun is an enormous star, so is Kolob as it is God's sun...so that may be where the star thing came from.
Good luck on your search for truth, and God bless!
2007-05-10 17:36:42 · answer #3 · answered by EarthAngel 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
John Heinerman, PhD at BYU wrote "People in Space" which describes in great detail where all the invisible people live throughout the galaxy. Modern science has yet to keep up with this guy.
Lynn Hilton, another BYU PhD wrote "The Kolob Theorem", and is free, and worth every penny of it.
I wonder just what is the criteria for a BYU doctorate, and if it's really worth it.
2007-05-12 07:06:04 · answer #4 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just do a little search on lds.org (in the scripture section) on Kolob, and it will tell you. Also there is a hymn (my favourite one!) - If You Could Hie To Kolob. Links are below.
LDS doctrine is VERY deep. I have been a member all my life (28 years) and I am still learning. It takes forever (literally) to learn all of the LDS doctrine. I think that is so wonderful!
Love MumOf4
Added: pink... we are encouraged to ask questions. I have been asking all kinds of difficult questions in church since the day I could speak... and the thing is, there have always been very good answers. There really is a lot of free thinking in the lds church... much more than any other Christian church I have attended... who just look at me weird and say, "It's one of God's mysteries..." I'm so glad we have prophets.
2007-05-10 22:20:03 · answer #5 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob
In Mormonism, Kolob is a star or planet mentioned in the Book of Abraham as being nearest to the throne of God. The literal existence and the exact nature of Kolob is a controversial topic in Mormon theology, as is the Book of Abraham. However, the idea of Kolob has had an influence in Mormon theology and culture, particularly within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The first known reference to Kolob is found in the Book of Abraham (found in the Pearl of Great Price), which the LDS Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. claims to have 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.)
2007-05-10 16:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Abraham 3:3 And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; 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.
2007-05-10 19:33:34 · answer #7 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The planet where God resides.
2007-05-11 15:38:31 · answer #8 · answered by Rikki 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, according to "LDS theology," God does not live on Kolob. Kolob means "the first creation" and is the name of the star closest to the "residence of God." It is not God's actual residence.
We learn of Kolob from Abraham's account found in The Pearl of Great Price, one of the Standard Works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"AND I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees;
And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;
And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; 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."
[1] Kolob governs all the planets which belong to the same order as the earth and is after the reckoning of the Lord's times, seasons and revolutions thereof. One revolution of Kolob is a day unto the Lord and one day in Kolob is equal to a thousand years on earth.
2007-05-10 16:50:53 · answer #9 · answered by michelle.winfree 2 · 9⤊ 1⤋
Simply put, Kolob is the name of the dwelling place of God.
Kolob is also the name of the northern section of a national park in Utah. (Zion National Park)
2007-05-11 05:38:58 · answer #10 · answered by Kerry 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋