Jason15 wrote:Sr1030 , Christians are in agreement with you, there is only one Supreme self existent God as the Bible is very clear in stating. Our God is an uncreated being.
The Bible nowhere has anything at all to say about self-existence, and if you wish to continue to assert this, I'll thank you to actually address my point, and with something more than "Yu-huh!"
Jason15 wrote:Why does only one God exists in the first place? The Bible doesn’t directly tell us the reason that God exists, but it does say that God is infinite, eternal and "sovereign" . With this as our starting point, I think we can make sense of the fact that there is only one God. For one thing, since God is the uncreated Creator, then he must exist necessarily.
But "uncreated" is not biblical. This is a philosophical proposition dating to centuries later. Not only that, but the notion that he must necessarily exist is not self-evident from the preceding proposition. You're just making assertions.
Jason15 wrote:That is, he cannot fail to exist, and he always has. But other gods do not have to exist, and so they don't!
A ludicrous false inference. Mosquitoes don't have to exist, but they do. The Raiders don't have to exist, but they do. Onions don't have to exist, but they do.
Jason15 wrote:Also, it seems to me that it is incoherent to have multiple supreme beings.
But "supreme being" is not coterminous with "god," neither by a biblical nor a contemporary definition of the word. "Supreme being" is a characteristic attributed to philosophical notions of deity (see Xenophanes), not a defining characteristic of gods as described or defined by the Bible.
Jason15 wrote:God is supreme and sovereign over all things, but if there was another being equal to him, neither would have total control over the other. Neither would truly be supreme, and so neither would truly be God.
Again you ignore the Bible's use of the word "god" and just assert your own definition, which is clearly drawn from Platonism as it has been handed down to you by conservative Christianity.
Jason15 wrote:The Greek pantheon, which consisted of a hierarchy of gods. But the Greek gods were finite and flawed, not supreme and self-existent like the biblical God.
I've already pointed out that the Bible shows God's limits on numerous occasions, and we've also been over the fact that the Bible nowhere witnesses to any notion of self-existence. You'll have to actually address these problems with your argument before including them in your premises from now on.
Jason15 wrote:Such lesser “gods” could only have existed if God had decided to create them, and he did not.
Where does it say he did not?
Jason15 wrote:The evidence really supports the idea of one supreme Creator God who is outside of (transcends) the universe and brought it into being (unlike the Greek gods).
This is just another reason why Mormonism and Christianity are light years apart.
This fundamental criterion of yours doesn't even distinguish Christianity from Judaism or Islam. You're basically saying that Judaism and Islam have more to do with your brand of Christianity than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is the only one that actually shares with you a belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of humanity, the only criterion established anywhere in the Bible for identification as a follower of Christ. Your zeal to boot Mormonism out of Christianity has completely perverted your presentation of the religion. You've abandoned the only definition of Christianity the Bible advocates. You're basically saying it's more important to exclude Mormonism than Judaism or Islam. What petty sectarian nonsense. And you'll defend it, too, while you stubbornly refuse to engage any of my quite legitimate and serious concerns with your argument. It simply staggers the imagination.