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Infinite Regression of Gods

If God the Father had a Father, doesn’t that mean an infinite chain of gods and no First Cause?

Bible

The Bible answers

Bible · 1 Corinthians 8:6

KJV + NRSVUE

To us there is but one God, the Father.

King James Version

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

NRSVUE

Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Book of Mormon

Also restored

Moses 1:3, 6

Endless is my name. I am the Lord God Almighty. Worship stops here.

I am the Lord God Almighty, and Endless is my name… And I have a work for thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the similitude of mine Only Begotten.

Faithful answers

FAIR

The nature of God

FAIR Latter-day Saints

Critics treat a couplet as a cosmology. The Restoration’s canonized claim is that we have a Father, a Son, and a Holy Ghost, one God in the biblical sense, and that exaltation is real. What lies beyond the Father we have not been told. Filling that silence with ‘Mormons believe in infinite tortoise-gods’ is their story, not ours.

We pray to the Father. We do not pray up an infinite hall of grandfathers.

  • No hymn, temple ordinance, or missionary lesson requires you to affirm an infinite chain.
  • Classical theism has its own unsolved puzzles (time, simplicity, evil). Unsolved is not ‘therefore Nicea.’
  • Paul’s ‘one God, the Father… and one Lord’ is still our grammar.
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