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Blog post explores infinite regress and chain of creator Gods in LDS theology

October 13, 2026 at 11:02 AM MT · via Times and Seasons · Summarized by Mormon News from original reporting

A Times and Seasons blog post examines the Latter-day Saint theological concept of an infinite chain of creator Gods—each God having been created by a prior God—linking the idea to Gödel's incompleteness theorem and philosophical questions about ultimate grounds of existence.

The writer notes the concept appears in Joseph Smith's King Follett discourse and other 19th-century LDS teachings, and argues the multiplicity of Gods is more deeply embedded in Mormon theology than standard monotheistic interpretations suggest, despite making the tradition's cosmology "distasteful" to conventional Judeo-Christian frameworks.

The post is framed as speculative theological commentary rather than doctrinal instruction.

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