The Ontological Status of Yahweh and the Existence of the Thing we call God

The essence of deities has captured our imaginations for as long we can remember. Does a God exist, or is the divine entity just figment dreams, projection? Is what Aribiah Attoe calls “regressively eternal and material entity” Gericke “a character fiction with no counterpart outside worlds text imagination”? This paper aims to wrestle those questions from theological perspective look at ontological status Yahweh how that worldview lends itself African Traditional Religions in conversation Attoe's method inquiry Metaphysics. be part larger project undertaken by author, showing philosophy should an auxiliary discipline Old Testament Studies it been seen, both fields have ways similar arguing coming same conclusions. intended interlocutory exercise experiment does not seek validate any hypothesis about either view.