Godly Motivations

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

God does stuff, and has done stuff.  We're told this constantly.

Why?  What could possibly motivate such a being to create or do anything?  God knows everything and can do everything.  God is complete and unchanging.  How could such a being possibly have any motivation whatsoever? 

Boru

I think you already know the answer to this.

Different Christians believe different things. Those things are sometimes incompatible.

Ken Ham thinks that God has motivations.

Paul Tillich thinks that God is the motivation.

What I'm asking is how it is possible for a complete, immutable Being to have motivations at all. 

I'm going to dismiss Ken Ham out of hand.

I read Tillich's 'Dynamics of Faith' years ago (and I confess I found it rather heavy going).  It seems to me that claiming 'God is the motivation' as an explanation of how an immutable being can do anything is so much semantic tail-biting.  Motivation - of necessity - requires a desire, a lack, or both.  I doubt very much that even Tillich, with his 'transtheism', would have been willing to admit that God consists of desires and deficiencies, something which would seem to be requisite for God to be (as opposed to 'have') the motivation.

Boru