Hilton argues Kolob is at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Date
2005
Type
Book
Source
Lynn M. Hilton
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Lynn M. Hilton, The Kolob Theorem: A Mormon’s View of God’s Starry Universe (n.p., 2005), 86

Scribe/Publisher
Lynn M. Hilton
People
Lynn M. Hilton
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Abraham saw, by the Urim and Thummim, the huge star Kolob, “that it was nearest to the throne of God” (Abraham 3:2); that Kolob is the first of all of God’s creations and is the greatest (largest in mass) of all the stars (Abraham 3:16), and that it “governs all the stars which belong to the same order as that upon which thou [Abraham] standest [earth]” (Abraham 3:3). The scriptures also establish that God’s throne is in the “midst [center] of all things” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:13). The Kolob Theorem proposes this is in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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