Does Mormon doctrine teach a beginning to everything?
Gramps, How could there have been no first God? Life started from somewhere. Also If I think of eternity for long, like no end, I feel so trapped! Like I can’t get away from it all. No end at times to me is scary. How can I find comfort and joy? Ginny, from Havre, Montana Dear Ginny, I think that your comfort and joy, in the end, will have nothing to do with your musings over the duration of eternity, but rather will be intrinsically tied to how you feel about and comply with the simple, ordinary, here and now concepts of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, I can understand how troublesome it can be when we see apparent conflicts in some of the philosophical concepts related to such things as existence, reality, time and eternity. Let me try one more time to try to make a little sense out of the concept of eternity. There’s not much we can do, because the full understanding of eternity is not given to us while in mortality. Here we deal with the concept of time. The concept of ti
