What I always heard was that Spinoza was able to declare that God exist, but that God can only exist as an abstraction.

This does not mean that God is not a living God, but that God is a living God within all that is.

As I understand it, Spinoza's view is that God as an abstraction cannot be seen aside from all that is. God cannot be a separate entity next to all that is.

When discussing God with other folks, I always try to find if their God has one eye or two eyes. In many cases, I notice that people want God to be a Cyclops, which is of course strange because folks also want to say that they were created in the image of God.

If interested: https://fred-rick.medium.com/what-god-used-to-create-creation-8f4e2c1e85e9

"What God Used to Create Creation"