Locating God’s place in the skies can, however, lead to childish and uninviting depictions of heaven. Jesus described himself as the one who “comes from above” and, in the ascension, was famously “taken up before their very eyes.” His followers stood dumbfounded, “looking into the sky.” God, for example, “looks down from heaven.” The psalmist lifts up his eyes to God whose throne is in heaven. People who look for heaven in outer space appeal to language used in the Bible. Others have located heaven in the star cluster the Pleiades.
Whatever Joseph Smith meant by that, he seemed to suggest there is a heavenly realm in outer space. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) wrote that a heavenly body known as Kolob was “nearest unto the throne of God” in the celestial heaven. Mortimer was not the first person who located heaven somewhere in space. This location also offers the added convenience of close proximity to a large “lake of fire” for those who are not blessed.ĭr.
Mortimer believed that the blessed occupants of heaven were either shielded from its heat or transformed physiologically (an idea based on the Apostle Paul’s writings) so they might flourish there. Mortimer, heaven lay within the sun as a vast globe, “at least 500,000 miles in diameter.”Īpparently, Dr. His suggestion, if I understand it correctly, was a fascinating one. Mortimer, a medical doctor who believed he had found the location of heaven. In 1869, The Scientific American ran a short (and sardonic) piece on Dr.
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