The Mormon cosmology of exaltation implies an infinite regression of gods — each God had a god before him who was once a man — which Mike argues is a philosophical impossibility.
Mike draws out the logical implications of the Mormon exaltation cycle: an infinite backwards chain of gods with no first cause.
If every God was once a man who had a God above him, and that God was once a man who also had a God, the chain never has a starting point. Mike flags this as a philosophical impossibility (infinite regress) and notes it is a significant rational problem for Mormon cosmology.
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