The Book of Mormon View of God

The Book of Mormon presents a view of God that differs in important ways from more traditional conceptions. In The Book of Mormon, passages such as Mosiah 4:9 teach: “Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth.” Similar statements appear throughout the text (see also Alma 18:28–29 and Alma 22:10), consistently affirming that God created “all things.”

If “all things” truly includes everything that exists, then it is reasonable to conclude that God created not only the physical world but also time itself. Time, as we experience it, belongs to the created order. This idea is reinforced in Moroni 8:18, which describes God as “unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity.” Rather than merely having an unchanging purpose, God is described as an unchanging being whose existence is not confined within time.

This raises an important question: how can a being exist “from all eternity to all eternity” if time itself had a beginning? The simplest explanation is that God exists outside of time because He is its Creator. Time is not something that contains God; it is something that depends on Him. This perspective is echoed in Mosiah 3:5 and Moroni 7:22, both of which portray God as existing eternally—independent of temporal limits.

A related issue concerns space. If God created all things, does that include space as well? If so, then God is not bound by spatial limitations either. Physical bodies require space and time in order to exist, but God, as described in the Book of Mormon, is not dependent on His creation. He transcends both time and space, which resolves the apparent paradox of how He could exist prior to them.

Another philosophical challenge follows: how could God attain infinite power or knowledge within a finite timeline? If time has a beginning, it would seem impossible to accumulate infinite attributes through progression. However, the Book of Mormon suggests a different conclusion—God did not become infinite over time; He already possessed infinite power and knowledge before time began. As Moroni 8:18 emphasizes, He is eternally unchanging. One does not need to “arrive” at infinity if one has always been there.

Finally, the Book of Mormon acknowledges that God’s nature exceeds human understanding. Mosiah 4:9 teaches that while we are to believe that God possesses all wisdom and power, we must also accept that “man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.” A finite mind cannot fully grasp an infinite one. If God were entirely understandable to us, He would not be infinite in the way these passages describe.

In this view, God’s transcendence—His existence beyond time, space, and human comprehension—is not a weakness in the concept but a defining feature of His divinity.

Philosophy, Christianity, Mormonism & Evolution

From a big-picture, philosophical point of view, Mormon (Latter-day Saint) theology faces some serious challenges when it comes to explaining where everything comes from and what grounds reality itself. These problems show up especially in its ideas about God and eternal progression.

The Infinite Chain of Gods

Mormon teachings, based on Joseph Smith’s sermons (like the King Follett Discourse), say that God the Father was once a man who became a god. Before Him, there was another God who did the same thing — and before that God, another one, and so on, forever backward in time.

This creates an infinite regress — an endless chain of gods, each one depending on a previous god to exist and become divine.

The big question is: How did the very first God in this chain get started? If every god needs a prior god (plus eternal matter, intelligences, and laws) to progress and become exalted, then there is no true beginning. The explanation just keeps pushing the question further back without ever answering it.

Philosophers point out that an actual infinite series of dependent beings doesn’t explain why anything exists at all. It just delays the answer forever. This is similar to problems raised in arguments like the Kalam Cosmological Argument: you can’t cross an infinite past to reach today, and you still need to explain how the whole process ever got going.

The Problem of Space, Time, and the Rules of Reality

Another issue is even more basic: What provided the “stage” for all of this to happen?

• Who created the space for these gods to live in?
• Who set up time so that progression from mortal life to godhood could occur?
• Where did the natural laws and the ability to organize matter come from?

In Mormon cosmology, matter and intelligences are said to be eternal — God organizes them but doesn’t create them from nothing. This means the basic framework of reality (space, time, laws) has always existed as a kind of unexplained backdrop. But then those things themselves need explaining.

It’s like trying to explain life by saying it evolved from simpler forms — that still assumes a universe with space, time, matter, and laws already in place. The Mormon view moves the mystery back one step but doesn’t solve the foundation problem.

How Traditional Christianity Answers This

Classical Christianity offers a much simpler and cleaner foundation. It teaches that God created everything out of nothing (creation ex nihilo).

The Bible puts it this way in John 1:1, 3:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

In this view:

• God (the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is eternal and self-existent. He didn’t “become” God — He has always been God.
• He is not part of a chain. He is the ultimate starting point.
• Space, time, matter, and the laws of nature are not eternal. God created them all.
• There is no infinite regress because God is the uncaused cause — a necessary Being whose existence doesn’t depend on anything else.

This idea is called aseity — God exists “from Himself.”

Why the Christian View Has a Logical Edge

Mormonism’s picture is inspiring in its emphasis on human potential and eternal families. However, it leaves the most important questions unanswered or circular:

• Why does this chain of gods and laws exist instead of nothing?
• What holds the whole system together?

An infinite chain of contingent (dependent) gods never reaches a final explanation.

Christianity, by contrast, stops the chain of “why” questions at a single, self-sufficient God who freely creates everything else. It is simpler, more complete, and avoids the philosophical problems of an infinite regress.

In Summary

While both faiths deal with deep mysteries, traditional Christianity provides a stronger philosophical foundation for reality. It starts with a God who is the ultimate source of everything — self-existent, creative, and needing no predecessor. Mormon cosmology, with its eternal progression of gods, risks leaving the ultimate origin of existence unexplained.

72 Perpetual Virgins or Easter

 72 perpetual virgins with rose petal lips are the marital highlight of Islam. This is a heavily AI picture of NY Mayor Mamdani enjoying his religion’s benefits. Easter is the highlight of Christianity! Here is the difference: the 72 heavenly, perpetual virgins with rose petal lips do not exist. Christ’s death, burial and resurrection are a historical fact! Jesus (not Mohammed) said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.”

New Mexico Burns

Many people still claim that Nero fiddled while Rome burned—yet he famously blamed the Christians for the fire. Today, we see a similar pattern: politicians often create or ignore massive problems, then shift blame onto convenient scapegoats instead of taking responsibility.

In New Mexico, lenient laws and policies have left criminals and pedophiles facing weak consequences, while offering far too little protection for women and children. Our state fails to truly value innocent life. Lawmakers have proudly expanded abortion access, turning New Mexico into a destination for the procedure with few restrictions. Meanwhile, despite our persistently high crime rates, officials repeatedly point the finger at law-abiding gun owners rather than addressing the real sources of violence.

Even as these failures mount, New Mexico recently won a landmark $375 million lawsuit against Meta, holding the company accountable for misleading the public and endangering children on its platforms. New Mexico blames others for the problems its own government have created.