As a mormon, I had no problem with that notion.  If the church was true, and who was I to argue that point, then what it was teaching had to be the truth..., like "day follows night," "et tu, uber lyft," and "hipso fatso, fartso."

But at the same time, I had no problem giving up the Celestial Kingdom, later, for orgasms, now!

When I stopped believing in the inerrancy of the church in general, and the prophet, in particular, it opened up many so many more whores to me than had I stayed a believer ... although there is a reason Kirton, McConkie & Poelman had to change their name to Kirton-McConkie ...

When taught from birth, it was no more unbelievable than santa clause, easter bunny and the devil.

That is NOT scriptural! The PoGP says that Kolob is a STAR, and that God lives on a planet NEAR Kolob.

Kolob is a hazard on God's golf course. Playing through is easier than with a Black Hole.

And another thing — this Elohim clearly isn't "God" in the sense of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent intelligence, but instead is a once mortal alien who was an interstellar Mormon on whatever planet he originally came from and granted godlike powers and given his own planet to rule as a reward — and is just one of many such "gods" who have similarly been elevated.



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I raised a son, and he wasn't him for years. Like all of us, he's the product of genetics and environment. He didn't exist as a complete personality at first. The pre-life notion violates my understanding of life. The believers so desperately don't want to die that they deny death. The only thing that we're guaranteed, and they refuse to accept it.

That never sounded right to me.

No. Never heard about Kolob until I took a seminary class in grade 12. I told the teacher it was BS.



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My instructor was somewhat taken aback when I challenged him on Kolob. I told him such a planet didn't exist....and then I walked out of the class...never to return. Loved that extra hour of sleep.



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Too many odd tales out of mormonism and you can only believe so many. I doubt my dad knew about kolob!!!

The Osmonds knew about Kolob at least as far back 1971, when they put out a record on their Kolob label.

At least God's SSL certificate never expires.

  
  

...I don't mind the extra effort it takes to sign into RfM but the piteous wailing and crying from my desktop's OS is a bit of a bother, such that I've had to turn off the sound...

Dammit! Get out of here. The place is closed!

Even as a TBM, I wondered if we didn’t get an apprentice god, and this was his first attempt at running a world. It just did look like it was being done with great competence.

And I never believed the sun got its light from Kolob.

I never thought of it this way but it is kind of cool.

I think I need an update or a patch.

Does the PoGP specify star or planet for Kolob?



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Wikipedia says that the Latter-day Saints "movement" (and we all know what kind of "movement") calls it both star and planet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob#:~:text=and%20his%20scribes.-,Mormon%20exegesis%20and%20speculation,the%20physical%20throne%20of%20God.


One wonders if mormon missionaries ever refer their 'friends' to Wikipedia...

Were Kolobians ever in the MIB franchise?

I was never really sold on the church. I thought the Kolob thing was stupid. As a kid I thought the adults were nuts.