Is God a Being?

  

 

Is God a being?

Do not think it strange

And feel my asking this question

Means I am deranged.

 

I definitely am not

But I really do believe

That true reality is not always

As we perceive.

 

What’s your definition

Of the word being?

For straight-up they are two

That I am seeing.

 

Being as in existing

And having one’s being

Are not in fact one and the same

As in agreeing.

 

 

 

The two are as different

As light is from sight

And to say they are synonymous

Is certainly not right.

 

We are all beings

That experience change,

And when old age begins to set in

Think it not strange.

 

Our state yesterday

Is different from today

Because of the continuous flux

Each and every day.

 

 

 

Everything changes

And we are changing too

And entropy is clearly evident

Affecting all we do.

 

We are becoming:

From birth to toddler,

From pubescence to adolescence

To vibrant go-getter.

 

But sooner or later

Father Time catches us

And the grim reaper calls our number

And we return to the dust.

 

Thus, from the earth

To the earth returned

Whether we be a king or a pauper,

Buried or burned.

 

Unlike all of humanity

God is not a being,

So, by now that indefinite article

You should be seeing.

 

 

 

God is not a being

Thus, He is not becoming

For He changes not, the Bible says

Though a necessary being.

 

For without God

Nothing would be

Thus, that there would be no being,

Should be clear to see.

 

For being to have been

God would have to be

Thus, His being is logically eternal,

And also, necessary.

 

Having being in Himself

He cannot be a being

But instead, the reality of being

In His eternal being.

 

God cannot not be

Given the fact of reality

For without Him, nothing that be,

Would have come to be.

 

For in Him, meaning God,

We live,

And we move,

And we have our being.

 

 

 

Nothing is being

Without ever becoming

And the fact that God changes not

Shows He is not a being.

 

Stewart Russell © March 15, 2026