Journal: Global Journal of Classical Theology
Volume: GJCT 07:2 (Jul 2009)
Article: The Anthropic And Temporal Conditions For The Mormon God’s Residence Near The Star Kolob
Author: Craig Lambert Miles

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The Anthropic And Temporal Conditions For The Mormon God’s Residence Near The Star Kolob

Craig Lambert Miles

Ph.D. Student, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

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?1

According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, God resides near the star Kolob. In evaluating claims about the Mormon God’s residence, Evangelicals may be knocking down a straw man if they attempt to show that the anthropic conditions for the Mormon God’s planet are not life permitting. Instead, Evangelicals need to focus on the Mormon claim that other stars borrow power from Kolob. We will attempt to address the claim in this paper.

An obscure theological topic in Mormonism that warrants more discussion concerns the Mormon God’s residence and the star Kolob. Kolob is thought to be the nearest star to God’s residence (cf. Abraham 3:2), it is the first of God’s creation (cf. Abraham 3:16), it “governs” other stars like ours (cf. Abraham 3:16; Facsimile 2:5), and it may be in the center of the universe or the center of the galaxy (cf. Doctrine and Covenants 88:13).2

For the sake of conversation, we will assume that the star Kolob, the Mormon God, and his residence are real. We will also assume that Facsimile Two in the Book of Abraham has been accurately translated.3 In sections 1 and 2 we will show that one day for the Mormon God is equal to one thousand years. In sections 3 and 4, we will discuss the uninhabitable anthropic conditions on the Mormon God’s planet given a thousand-year diurnal rotation. In section 5, we will deny the work we did in sections 3 and 4 because the Mormon God has a perfected body and can live anywhere. So, in sections 6 and 7, we will refocus and examine the claim that stars borrow light from Kolob.

1. Thousand-Year Days For The Mormon God

We are given insight about the Mormon God’s residence in a few places in the Latter-day Saint’s Holy texts. On the surface, it seems that three easy steps can explain the Mormon God’s relation to his residence and the star Kolob.

The first easy step is from the translation of Facsimile Number 2, Figure 1 from the Book of Abraham. It states,

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 cel...

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