Latter Day Saints on another planet?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

Kolob is a heavenly body mentioned in the Book of Abraham, a Mormon scripture.

If the text is read literally Kolob is a planet geographically close to God or where Mormons go in the afterlife.

In a post on the LDS Church’s official website, “Becoming Like God,” say that the Latter-day Saints’ doctrine of exaltation is reduced in media to a cartoonish image of people receiving their own planets

The writer says few Latter-day Saints would identify with caricatures of having their own planet.

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Tags: Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, Klob, Mormons

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