Q&A: Can God Create a God?
Can God Create a God?
Question
Hello Rabbi,
A. I was wondering about the question of whether God, as an omnipotent being, can create a god—another omnipotent being. What does the Rabbi think?
B. And if so, since we hold that God is good, and it is the nature of the good to do good, wouldn’t it be appropriate for God to create another god?
Answer
I think not. If He created such a being, then it would not be a necessary existent, because before its creation it did not exist.
Besides, how do you know He didn’t create one?
Discussion on Answer
On this matter, see here toward the end of the comments:
https://mikyab.net/Responsa/The Stone Question/
You lost me. This hair-splitting sounds completely bizarre to me.
So we’re not talking about another God, but about some kind of perfect creatures. So why is creating them doing good? For whom is things now better? And besides, who told you there aren’t such beings? I really don’t see any point in splitting hairs over questions like these.
Obviously they could not be necessary existents or eternal if He created them (unless perhaps on the axis of emanation)… I meant the creation of something like a god, that is, beings with free choice and infinite, perfect, etc., etc. It says in the verse: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”
B. And if so, since we hold that God is good, and it is the nature of the good to do good, wouldn’t it be appropriate for God to create another god?