However, I again aver that the LDS doctrine that God the Father had a Father who had a Father and so on cannot be dismissed with a hand wave.
Nor can His Name I AM be dismissed with a hand wave.
Legerdemain is a magicians trick getting the audience to watch one hand while the other is doing something else. Like secrets of any kind, it has no place among preachers.
Clarity and simplicity are crucial in declaring Who Christ IS.
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him]. - 2 Cor 11:3-4
In post 784 you testified that We have one God. but based on the rest of that post, the sentence should be finished as follows We LDS have one God, the heavenly Father, who is relevant to us; the Heavenly Fathers Father, Grandfather, etc. are irrelevant.
And in post 1688 you said I AM is definitely one of God's names. but based on the previous post 784 (and others such as MHGinTNs post 1691) that sentence should be finished as follows We LDS recognize that I AM is definitely one of Gods names in the same respect that I am and you are and he is - which is not in the Judeo/Christian meaning of YHwH (He IS) that there was no one, no time and no thing before Him (Alpha) and that there will be no one, no time and no thing after Him (Omega.)
Again I aver that the issue of Who God IS cannot be dismissed with a hand wave.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. - Revelation 1:7-8
According to mormon doctrine the 'god' you worship is named Elohim - a being with flesh and bone that was once a mortal man and progressed to being a god.
Mormons don't worship Jehovah -the premortal name of Jesus - any more because Elohim is the object of your worship. The 'god of this world' eh.
The Holy Ghost is another 'god' albeit lacking a body separate from the others.
Who is El Echad Du in mormon polytheism?
Who is El Shaddai in the mormon pantheon of gods? Du
Who is Immanuel in the mormon pantheon of gods du?
Who is ergo eimi in the mormon pantheon of gods du?
Who is hayah in the mormon pantheon of gods du?
.......”LDS recognize that I AM is definitely one of Gods names in the same respect that I am and you are and he is - which is NOT in the Judeo/Christian meaning of YHwH (He IS)... that there was no one, no time and no thing before Him (Alpha) and that there will be no one, no time and no thing after Him (Omega.).......”
Beautiful and with clarity and distinction AG.