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Nothing created God. God is not a being within the universe of beings, God is being itself. God is necessary, and all necessity is derivative of God. God is sheer actuality. God's essence is to exist. By contrast creatures, what they are (essence) does not entail that they are (existence).

From the perspective of the cosmos though, we can say that God, is the First Cause (hierarchical efficient cause, not an accidental temporal first cause), the First Mover, the Final Cause, the Necessary Existent, and the architect of quiddity. God is also the most Good, True, and One, by which these properties are structured.