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Episode 74: God lives on a planet called Kolob

Abraham 3-5

3 1 I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim that God had given me. 2 And I saw the stars, one of which was nearest to God's throne. 3 The Lord said to me, "The bright star is Kolob, because it is near me." 4 The Lord said to me by the Urim and Thummim, “On Kolob, a day is 1000 years.”

13 God said to me,

This is Shinehah, the sun; and Olea, the moon. Kolob is a star, and Kokaubeam are the stars. 16 Kolob is the greatest of all the Kokaubeam, because it is the nearest to me.

God explains the pre-existence to Abraham

22 The Lord showed Abraham how intelligences were organized before the world existed. 23 And among them God saw good souls, and God said "I'll make these my rulers." He said to Abraham, "You were a good soul, so I chose you before you were born."

24 Among them there stood someone who looked like God, and he said, We'll take these materials and make an earth where these can live.

25 But first we'll test them here to see if they will do what God commands.

Jesus and Satan volunteer (God chooses Jesus)

27 The Lord said, "Whom should I send?" One of them who looked like the Son of Man said, "Send me." Another one said, "Send me." God said, "I'll send the first one"

28 The second one was angry and didn't keep his first estate. Many others followed him.

The first creation account (The Gods organize things)

4 1 The Lord said, "Let us go down." And they, that is the Gods, went down and organized and formed the heavens and the earth.

The first creation account (The Gods organize things)

5 2 The God said among themselves, “We will rest on the seventh time.”

13 (I, Abraham, saw that God uses Kolob time, not earth time.)

20 The Gods formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them to Adam. 21 But Adam didn’t find a help meet among them.

A few more words about this episode

The bright star is Kolob, because it is near me (3:3)
God lives near the planet (or star?) Kolob.
The Lord showed Abraham how intelligences were organized before the world existed. (3:22)
Mormons are taught that they were born into Mormon families in this life because they were good in their pre-earth life.
The second one was angry and didn't keep his first estate. (3:28)
Although the text doesn't say, you are supposed to believe that the first was Jesus and the second was Satan.
Let us go down. (4:1a)
This chapter closely follows the creation story of Genesis 1, but with a few differences.
  • It doesn't begin with "In the beginning," as does the Genesis 1 creation account. That's because Mormons don't believe there was a beginning. Everything always existed in the pre-existence.
  • The Gods don't create things as God does in Genesis. They "organize and form" them, since they, along with everything else, always existed.
they, that is the Gods (1b)
The somewhat embarrassing "us" in the Genesis account, is made explicitly polytheistic in the Book of Abraham. The phrase "the Gods" occurs 44 times in the Book of Abraham.
God uses Kolob time, not earth time. (5:13)
Abraham says it's Kolob time. Kolob, as was explained in , is the star or planet where God lives. A day of earth time is 1000 years on Kolob.
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