God Cannot Exist

If I carry a stone from step 4 to step 20, the stone no longer exists at step 4 — only a record of it remains. Existence, in this sense, is tied to the present moment. The past is memory or record; the future is projection or potential. We act only in the now.

Whenever there is mass there is distance and location. Mass anchors an object to spacetime; it makes “where” and “when” meaningful. An entity with zero mass does not participate in spacetime in the same way. It can be observed as an effect, but it cannot be localized as a thing that “exists” in the temporal sense.

If God is truly omnipresent — everywhere at once — then God cannot be localized. To speak of God as an object that “exists” is to force a spacetime verb onto something that, by definition, transcends spacetime. That is the conceptual problem with idol worship: localizing the absolute contradicts its limitless nature.

Saying “God does not exist” is therefore correct if “existence” is taken to mean physical, temporal existence. A programmer does not “exist” inside the code he writes; the code expresses the programmer’s logic without containing the programmer. Our senses and instruments are tuned to the physical; they register what occupies spacetime. They are not designed to detect that which, if it exists, would not be a spacetime object.

Light illustrates part of this distinction: it has no rest mass, yet it interacts with gravity and can be deflected. If a transcendent cause were likewise non-massive, it would not behave like ordinary objects and would not be “existence” in the way we understand it.

Finally, follow causation backward: every effect has a cause; trace causes far enough and you reach a point where you can identify a primordial force but cannot describe it in ordinary terms. That initial force is the condition from which other forces arise — it is the ground of being rather than a being within being.

Conclusion:

If “existence” means being a localized occupant of spacetime, then a truly omnipresent, non-spatiotemporal ground cannot be said to “exist.” It may nevertheless be the explanatory ground of existence — not an existent thing, but the condition that makes things possible.