Zephyr,
If the God we know is called God1, and He achieved Godhood under God2, who achieved godhood under God3, etc, how did the first one achieve godhood? How did any being attain to the rank of God before an atonement had been made? I cannot accept the answer that the number of Gods does not end. If that is so, then truly time has no meaning, and other possibilities are opened. For surely if mortal experience requires time, then there must have been at some point in history a time when no God existed, for every God was once as Man is now. Can you see the difficulty I have with wrapping the whole thing up in an infinity and calling it a holy mystery? That's too Catholic for me.