Abigail Williams God Analysis

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Williams vehemently believes that God can be trusted. “There can be no question of God having to do anything at all that he doesn’t want to do. And because he cannot need anything, because he contains all reality eternally and by nature, the only thing that can ‘motivate’ his action is simply what he is, the kind of God he is”(11). Therefore God can not be selfish, he can’t be looking to gain anything from our creation because he is already complete and needs nothing “he isn’t bored and in need of company”(Williams 12). God has no necessity for relationships with us, he is unchanging and already complete in every way, having been exactly the same if we had not every existed. “God is, in simple terms, sublimely and eternally happy to be God”(Williams

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