I suspect a serious lack of understanding of what God is and is not. There
cannot be more than One God because He is
Infinite. Infinite, as used here, is in its absolutely pure form. Infinite means
without any limitation, no boundaries, no boarders, no separable parts, no potentialities to be anything else.
Our whole Universe displays constant change through the method of cause and effect. A good demonstration of that is a row of standing dominos. Knock the first one into the second and they all fall in sequence. That’s cause and effect. However, it is absolutely necessary that someone or something start the process by knocking the first domino. None of the dominos can fall by itself. This is our world, our Universe, our existance.
If we find the one who started the dominos to fall, and if that “cause” had no cause itself, then you have come to God. If that “starter” had a cause, then you must continue back until you find the
First Cause, the Creator. There
MUST be a
First Cause, because the row of dominos
cannot be infinite. If we
assume the row is infinte, then there is
no** first domino to fall**, therefore none of the dominos will fall. Anything
infinite **cannot change ** because there is no first place to begin. If you want to imagine that the infinite rows of dominos already have dominos falling by cause and effect, how long will it take an
infinite progression to reach you? The **answer is an infinite amount of time; therefore, it will never reach you.**The First Cause
must be Infinite, which means it is the **First Cause ** of everything else, including the existence the the dominos and everything that exists.
More than one **Infinite Being ** is a contradiction. An
Infinite Being has no limitations, no borders. If there was more than One God, then there would have to be a defining point where one begins and one ends. That limitation, by reason and logic, would eliminate either one, or any among the many, to be infinite, therefore none of them could be God.
God is the Uncaused First Cause, the Unmoved First Mover, the Absolutely Essential Being (whithout Whom nothing could exist), the Absolutely Perfect Being (everything that is must be derived from His Perfection), and God must be Absolute Intelligence (a mindless god is a contradiction, it could not cause anthing, that is, create.
I suggest reading the
Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, starting with its narrative equivalent in **“A Companion To The Summa” ** by Father Walter Farrell. These are very long, multi-volume books, but the existence of God is addressed in the beginning.
Available online:
op.org/farrell/companion
Everyone else answered your questions, but I thought I’d direct you to a couple of threads where you could introduce yourself and learn about some of the others who are here. Regenhund started a poll (the little icon to the side looks like a sideways bar graph) I think the thread is labeled “Religion” under the Apologetics forum where people talk about their backgrounds. You’ll like the boards the people here are incredibly helpful. There’s another thread, I’m not sure where they moved it though(it might be under Miscellaneous), I think Scott started it asking what people’s usernames meant. If I find it I’ll come back and post that as well.
