How can God die? The entire universe would cease to exist. God's own being holds it together, for God to die would mean that we too would die. Yet we are still here so clearly God is not dead and has never died.
It is a contradiction of God's attribute of eternality. Since God has no beginning he can have no end.
"In Islam, Allah cannot die because He is the Ever-Living, beyond the reach of death or any limitation. The Qur'an states, 'He is the Ever-Living; there is no deity except Him' (Surah Ghafir, 40:65), and 'Everything will perish except His Face' (Surah Al-Qasas, 28:88). Death applies to created things—those with beginnings and ends—but Allah is eternal, the One who gives life and takes it, never subject to it Himself. If God could die, He wouldn't be God; He'd be weak and temporary, which clashes with His absolute power and Tawhid.
In the Trinity, the idea that Jesus (peace be upon him), as God, died on the cross raises a contradiction: how can the eternal Creator cease to exist? Even if temporary, death implies a loss of control or being, unfit for the Almighty. Islam insists Allah is unchanging and immortal—He sustains all, never faltering. The Qur'an affirms, 'Rely upon the Ever-Living who does not die' (Surah Al-Furqan, 25:58). Tawhid ensures God's permanence, making Him the only One worthy of worship, free from the frailty of death."
Surah Al-Furqan, 25:58
The common Muslim objection: "If Jesus died, God ceased to exist"; relies on a flawed, materialistic definition of death that neither the Bible nor the Quran supports.
When a human being dies, do they vanish into non-existence? No. Death is not annihilation; it is separation. For a human, physical death is the breaking of our complex unity—our conscious soul and spirit are temporarily separated from our physical body. The body remains on Earth, while our conscious being moves to the intermediate realm to await the Resurrection and Judgement Day. Both Christians and Muslims fully agree on this survival of the soul.
Therefore, treating physical death as if it causes non-existence is a logical fallacy. It does not stop time, nor does it end eternity. If a finite human soul survives physical death, how much more does the eternal God survive it?
Muslim polemics consistently attack a strawman by ignoring the doctrine of the Incarnation and the Hypostatic Union (Jesus being one divine Person with two distinct natures: fully God and fully man). Christians do not believe the divine nature can be destroyed, or that God stopped existing for three days.
When God the Son died on the cross, He experienced true death through the human nature He assumed, while His divine nature remained completely unaffected.
When Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (fulfilling the prophecy of Psalm 22), He was experiencing the ultimate relational weight of human sin and spiritual isolation as a man. The essential unity of Yahweh was never destroyed, because God cannot be broken, divided, or changed. Instead, the Triune God operated in absolute harmony to accomplish mankind's redemption.
When Jesus resurrected and was glorified, His human soul and physical body were perfectly reunited, conquering death forever. He ascended into heaven fully alive, retaining the physical scars of His crucifixion as an eternal trophy of victory.
Because of the Incarnation and Resurrection, Christ will judge mankind not only with perfect divine omniscience and wisdom, but with the firsthand, personal experience of what it truly means to live, suffer, and die as a human being.