Can God Exist? A Biblical-Theological Approach to God's Being

The argument contends that God does not exist in the creaturely sense because existence implies origination, contingency, and temporality—conditions that belong only to created things. God, by contrast, possesses being that is self-sufficient, uncreated, immutable, and impassable. The divine name “I AM” reveals not an existing entity among others but the source and ground of all being itself. To speak of God as “existing” places him within time and space, creating a categorical error that subjects the eternal to the temporal. Scripture distinguishes the Creator from the creature, showing that all things which exist do so contingently, while God simply is—beyond change, beyond space, beyond time. Even ancient cosmologies, such as Dante’s vision of creation enveloped in divine reality, echo this truth that everything is held within God’s being. Whereas creatures begin and may cease to be, God neither begins nor ends; his reality is necessary, not contingent. Thus, the answer to whether God can exist is no—God cannot exist as created things do, for he must simply be, the very foundation of all existence.