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Saturday 28 March 2009

21 Questions about Mormonism - More than one Kolob?

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More than one Kolob? Kolobs? Hmm. Is this an anagram?

Q: Does the Mormon Church believe in the existence of another physical planet or planets, where Mormons will "rule" after their death and ascension?

A: No.

Qu. "In the Heaven where our spirits were born there are many Gods, each one of whom has his own wife or wives, raises up a numerous family of sons and daughters... each father and mother will be in a condition to multiply forever and ever. As soon as each God has begotten many millions of male and female spirits, and his Heavenly inheritance becomes too small, to comfortably accommodate his great family, he, in connection with his sons, organizes a new world, after a similar order to the one which we now inhabit, where he sends both the male and female spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones.... The inhabitants of each world are required to reverence, adore, and worship their own personal father who dwells in the Heaven which they formerly inhabited.” (Mormon apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, March 1853, pp. 37-39)

C. In the most fundamental way this describes the Mormon Plan of Salvation, the plan by which God himself became God according to Mormonism. God made this planet to accommodate his spirit children (us) and faithful Mormons will go on to create and inhabit their own planets, which will be populated by their spirit children who will, in turn, worship them – and the whole process starts again. The answer, then, is that there are, or will be planets which Mormons expect to rule after their death and ascension.

It is strange that the Mormon Church should deny this since there is a hymn in the official Mormon Church hymnbook that speaks clearly of Kolob:

If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye,

And then continue onward with that same speed and fly,

Do you think that you could ever through all eternity,

Find out the generation where God began to be?

Or see the grand beginning, where space did not extend?

Or view the last creation, where Gods and matter end?

Methinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found pure space,

Nor seem the outside curtains, where nothing has a place”

The works of God continue, and worlds and livers abound;

Improvement and progression have one eternal round.

There is no end to matter; there is no end to space;