Let's be honest

[Neo-Scholastic]

Following the same logic:


Before God created existence, there was no existence.

If God was an existent entity, then there was already existence before God.

So the thing that created existence could not have already existed.


Is this sound?

Theologians would say that it's valid but not sound. 

That is, given the premisses as written, the logic works -- therefore it's valid. However theologians don't agree that God is "an existent entity." So for them it's not a sound argument.

Fair enough, however. One definition of God is Necessary Being. Therefor the answer to the question of why there is something rather than nothing starts to sound tautalogical, a point @emjay makes. To me this is not an insurmountable objection. Because the something in question is not simply nothing but also (apparently) not everything that could be. In other words, we have to ground the particularity of this reality on transcendent universals...eternity in a wildflower.