Interestingly both Williams and Tolstoy passionately attest that we can trust God without discerning whether God is good. Although Tolstoy does not say so directly, he apparently assumes that God is good when a pilgrim in his story says “If God willed that your son should die and you should live, it must be best so”(85). This explanation given by the pilgrim is accepted by Martin without further examination. Similarly Williams reasons through our trust in God being secure because God does not need anything and at the end of his reasoning assumes God’s goodness by the idea that God had nothing to gain from our creation and therefore must have done it out of love. However, just because he doesn’t gain anything out of it doesn’t mean he’s
