For those of my readers who don't already know, I grew up watching science fiction shows like the original Start Trek, Lost In Space, and Space 1999. I also watched movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Planet Of The Apes. I learned much of what I know about physics from watching science fiction shows. I have known for some time now that some scientists believe in alternate time lines and parallel universes. Most Christians will tell me that the universe is all that there is and that everything that God created exists in this one universe that we see through our telescopes. Quantum mechanics do not believe this.
I have also noticed that the writers for some science fiction shows are familiar with LDS doctrine because their shows touch upon some things that we teach in our church. One of these topics is, where did mankind come from? I remember watching the original Battlestar Gallactica. One of the characters in the series was the human fleet commander named Adama. That is very close to the name of the first human male. The 12 colonies are named after the 12 signs of the zodiac. They are at war with the cylons who are determined to destroy the human race. The cylons are robots built by man, but they turned on their creators just as Lucifer and a third of the angels in heaven turned on God. The difference here is the God won and kicked Lucifer out of heaven. In Battlestar Gallactica the humans lost to the cylons and are on the run from them. In the old series all cylons looked like robots. In the new series that is on the Sci-Fi channel, some cylons look and feel human. Some are even programmed to think that they are human! They have latent programs that are waiting to be activated at the time that the human looking cylon can cause the most damage to the human fleet.
In the new series the humans believe in multiple gods like Zeus and Athena while the cylons believe in one true God! The human gods are called the Lords of Kobol. The computer programming language is COBOL and stands for Common Business Oriented Language. The planet's name starts with a "K". On Kobol the human race once lived in peace with the gods. For some reason that was either not explained, or I missed, the humans left Kobol and formed 13 new colonies. The thirteenth colony is called Earth. The surviving humans are trying to find Earth without leading the cylons there.
So, according to the writers of Battlestar Gallactica the human race came from Kobol and once lived with the gods there. This parallels LDS doctrine in two ways. First is that Mormons believe that our spirits came from somewhere else and that life here on earth was brought here from another place. In The Book of Abraham, Chapter 3, versus 2-18, we can read what God told Abraham about the star named Kolob. Note that Kolob is an anagram of Kobol. The nearest and biggest of the stars that circle God's home is called Kolob. God reckons His time according to this star and our star is governed by this star. Thus, 1000 years of our time is one day to God. So the second parallel is that the human race came from Kobol or Kolob.
I spent some time figuring out our time versus God's time. Start with 24 hors of God's time equal 1,000 years of our time. Then we get 12 hours = 500 years. Then we get 6 hours = 250 years. So, 3 hours = 125.5 years. Most people who have lived on this planet have been here less than 3 hours of God's time. Yet, God is going to send someone to Hell because of something that he or she did, or failed to do like getting baptized, while here for 1 or 2 hours of his time?!? I find that really hard to believe! I plan on doing another post on Heaven and Hell later on.
So, we have some science fiction writers stating that the human race came from another planet and we have the LDS leaders teaching that we came from a planet near a star named Kolob. When we die we don't go back to the place near Kolob but to Paradise or the spirit prison to await resurrection. I'll write more on that topic later. Eventually, this Earth that we are on now will be returned to its paradisaical glory and that time will be called the Millennium. After that, the Earth will be turned into a sea of glass and only those people worthy of Celestial glory will live on the Earth's surface. Hell will obviously removed from the center of the Earth and sent somewhere else. We believe that it will be sent to "outer darkness", whatever that means.
Battlestar Gallactica
origin of mankind
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