Because without the concept present there would be no thing to investigate or explore what it is we are trying to understand. And the energy expressing as a human experience likes to explore what it doesn't understand.Hobbes' Choice wrote:
God is a human conceptual invention. Since there are many people, there are many separate inventions. Since God explains nothing, the definitions are stretched beyond reason, confused and incompatible one with the other.
Why would such a state of affairs offer coherence?
God is not a human concept. Because a human is also a concept. Concepts are self arising. No concept makes a concept happen. Wanting to know anything is concepts trying to understand other concepts about those concepts. That's why God aka the no thing is already that in which things arise/ self arising concepts of SELF...invented by itself in order to experience and know itself via the pen so that it the no thing could become a something...as and through a concept via the pen, and the pen is the only available tool as a means to understanding and explaining itself which is no thing and never in need of understanding or explanation because it just is without any confusion.
The source of the fictional story of I existing as things cannot explain anything, since there is nothing really to explain or understand in a fiction. But the mind aka no thing aka God that identifies itself as actually being the concept it imagines gets confused...because it's already being it SELF...without needing the concept. The Self aka God in which the concept of I arises is never confused in this regard...because it's always perfectly whole and complete in every moment.
The substratum of all thoughts and feelings is your Self. God is just another concept for SELF
And since all names, labels and descriptions, are concepts. In truth life is but an imagination appearing real as the concept depicts . Row row row your boat.