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Kolob: The Mormon Star Trek of Theology
Introduction – Houston, We Have a Kolob Problem
Somewhere out there, past Saturn, past the Andromeda galaxy, past reason itself — lies the star Kolob, the supposed home address of the Mormon deity. According to Joseph Smith’s Book of Abraham, God doesn’t merely reign from heaven above the firmament (like your KJV says in Genesis 1), but from a planet near a star that runs on a cosmic day equal to a thousand of ours.
In other words, the Mormon god works one day and gets a millennium of overtime.
Welcome aboard, friends — buckle up. Today’s voyage takes us through the LDS galaxy of make-believe, where prophets double as astronomers, professors double as science-fiction writers, and “faith-based astrophysics” tries to patch the holes in a theology that already crashed somewhere near Kolob.
Section 1 – How Kolob Hatched
The tale starts in the Book of Abraham, a “translation” Joseph Smith produced after buying some Egyptian papyri from a traveling mummy show. From those papyri came the infamous Facsimile No. 2, a circular Egyptian drawing that Smith declared was a heavenly map. In his version, Figure 1 is Kolob, “the first creation, nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God… One day in Kolob is equal to a thousand years according to the measurement of this earth.”
Now that’s convenient — a 1,000-year rotation! You could have brunch, take a millennium-long nap, and still call it “yesterday.”
Early Mormon apostles like Orson Pratt and Brigham Young doubled down. Pratt preached in Journal of Discourses 16:312 that Kolob was “a certain great world… whose diurnal rotation takes place once in a thousand of our years.” Brigham Young said God was a man living near Kolob, physically located in space. Picture it — the Almighty in a celestial suburb, mowing the lawn every thousand years or so.
So began the Mormon Star Trek: To boldly go where no prophet has mis-translated before.
Section 2 – When the “Scientists” Took Over
Fast-forward a century, and the faithful started getting nervous. The telescopes got bigger, the galaxies got weirder, and nobody could find Kolob. So the Mormons did what all modern religions do when fantasy meets facts — they hired scientists to make it sound academic.
Enter Dr. Lynn M. Hilton, whose book The Kolob Theorem (2005) insists Kolob isn’t just a star; it’s the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where God’s throne sits in “everlasting burnings.” He describes it with the zeal of a tour guide: white core (Celestial Kingdom), red ring (Terrestrial), blue ring (Telestial). Three colors, three glories — and apparently one divine traffic light.
Hilton even claims each galaxy has its own god. Imagine the chaos on judgment day when all those deities file claims for ownership. “Excuse me, you’re in the wrong spiral arm — this is the Jehovah quadrant.”
Then there’s David Allred, a BYU physicist who published Bounds and Conditions: A Kolob in Our Solar System? in Sunstone magazine. He mused whether Jupiter might be a “type of Kolob” that governs the planets by stabilizing their orbits. He admitted Jupiter wasn’t the Kolob, just a Kolob-like object. Translation: we still can’t find it, but we’ll pretend it’s nearby.
Meanwhile, the 2022 BYU Studies Quarterly article by Stephen Smoot, John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein, and John Thompson tried to fix things the scholarly way. They called Kolob an ancient metaphor — a symbol of divine order, not a real star. In short: “It’s literal when we preach it, but allegorical when it embarrasses us.”
And that, my friends, is the birth of a new science: Quantum Theology — it’s both real and not real until someone reads it aloud.
Section 3 – Larson’s Cosmic Soap Opera
If Hilton and Allred turned Mormon astronomy into Sunday-school astrophysics, Anthony E. Larson cranked it up to full Hollywood. His book Kolob: The God Star (2001) argues that Kolob was actually Saturn, with Venus and Mars
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