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Related: About this forumMormonism on Space Travel...Planet Kolob
Mormon apostle, the late Bruce R. McConkie, reminds us that in Mormon theology God created "worlds without number". He also reminds us that Mormons believe that "there live aliens on other planets unknown to us". McConkie tells us that these planets are "inhabited by male and female humanoids who are redeemed with immortality and offered eternal life through the power of Heavenly Father."
Mormon Theologians agree that God lives on a distant planet, the planet KOLOB. It's located in the constellation Cancer, sector 2813. Kolob means "the first creation" -- which is "nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God", (Abraham 3:2 3, 9) as McConkie assures us. It is called the Celestial Kingdom.
http://nowscape.com/mormon/mormons5.htm
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)Its likely there are other lifeforms on other planets, though I don't hold much confidence that they are of the "humanoid" type.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...not both. It's just not tidy.
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)Do you laugh, cry or choke on a whopper?
jonthebru
(1,034 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)They are much like other theologians in that respect. The location of Kolob is certainly up for grabs, it is entirely uncertain whether Kolob is a planet or a star, and rather than "God" living there we should specify somehow "The Chief God" or parent god who fathers the rest. For examples, our local God and Jesus. Oh, yeah, and his brother Satan.
Even odder are the Mormon claims that our sun and moon are inhabited. Those two are starting to look improbable in view of modern science, in spite of the Mormon prophecy that man would never reach the moon.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)...Glen Larson borrowed a lot of the science fiction from the Book of Mormon!