Isaiah 43:10, New American Standard Bible

Sources

• Isaiah 43:10, New American Standard Bible, Bible Gateway. (opens in a new tab)

Objections & responses

“No god was formed before me” can be read by a Latter-day Saint as consistent with the Father being unformed within the sphere relevant to us, while leaving open a prior sphere. The verse isn’t decisive.

That reading requires the text to mean something narrower than it says, and no single verse is decisive against a determined reading. The cumulative force of Isaiah 40 to 48, in which God repeatedly claims to be alone, first and last, and incomparable, with none before and none after, is the argument, which is why the claim says repeatedly. A sphere-limited reading has to be applied to every one of those statements, and at some point the exception is doing more work than the text.

Appears under 1 claim in this case

• Latter-day Saint scripture teaches that the Father has a body and that the faithful may become gods, while Isaiah’s God says there was no God formed before him and none after him: the two pictures of God cannot both be true.