If God exists necessarily and essentially, the modal profile of 'God' and the modal profile of 'God's existence' are identical across all possible worlds, undermining the ontological distinctness that Plantinga's argument requires.

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God exists necessarily(contrasted with contingent existence, which depends on other things): God's existence is not dependent on anything else and couldn't fail to exist—it's impossible for God not to exist.
essentially(describing what makes God inherently God): As a fundamental, unchangeable part of what something is—if something is essential to God, it's always been and always will be part of God's nature.
modal profile(comparing whether God and God's existence have the same logical structure): A description of all the different ways something could or must exist—basically, a map of what's possible and impossible for that thing.
ontological distinctness(what the argument depends on to work): The quality of being genuinely different kinds of things that exist—in this case, whether God and God's existence are separate entities or the same thing.

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