The Ancient Scriptures

God is Infinite.
The God of the Bible is infinite. Infinite means to be without boundaries. Many people use a number of Latin terms, which I can remember only about half the time, to describe God’s essence. But the only word we need to describe God’s essence is infinite.This is not an appendage to God but his every essence. He is infinite in power (Genesis 35:11), presence (Jeremiah 23:24), knowledge (Psalms 147:5) and essence (Psalms 90:2).

Are the Gods of LDS apologists infinite? No, is the answer. It is true Heavenly Father is said to be from “everlasting to everlasting” (D & C 61:1) but this can be somewhat deceiving to the uninitiated. To begin with, we need to realize that every LDS God is infinite in one sense. Every LDS God begins as a human on some planet. But each human first begins his when his spirit particles come together, they are born to a God and Goddess, live faithfully in the preexistence, and then are born to father and mother on earth. But a person’s particles are believed to be infinite. So, according to LDS apologists what makes up our essence is supposedly from “everlasting to everlasting.” But this is not true of a God’s deity or essence for every God has a definite beginning as a deity. So, when LDS apologists proclaim Heavenly Father is from “everlasting to everlasting” they must mean from the point in time at which Heavenly became a God.

The God of the Bible is very, very different. To understand Heavenly Father as revealed in the Bible, Psalms 90:2 becomes very important. Moses said that “from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” The Hebrew word for everlasting is olam. Literally it refers to being infinite. The term God is used to describe Heavenly Father’s essence and would be best understood by the word Deity. Moses is saying that from the infinity of the past, through our present, to the infinity of the future Heavenly Father was, is, and always will be Deity. In other words, there has never been a time in Heavenly Father’s existence in which he was anything other than Deity. This means that Heavenly Father was never, is not now, nor will be in the future a human.

The Heavenly Father as revealed in the Bible, God’s former self-revelation, is truly different from the Heavenly Father proclaimed by LDS apologists. My friend, do you see the difference?