The classical Judeo-Christian notion of divinity is that it creates freely. (If it created from necessity, then it would be come sort of demiurge, and something else would be the reason, etc.)
For Aquinas, for example (in the words of one of his best modern interpreters, Timothy McDermott) God is "the one whose doing the world's being is. For his
^^^^ CB: "His". So is God male ?
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doing is not something we can identify over and above the world's being, it is the world's being as done. [Hence] Thomas's accounts of God's agency in regard to chance and free will, and in regard to evil, and the notion that he is not at work in the world side
by side with nature but as the cause of nature's own natural activity"
(which science investigates). --CGE