Nature is an indivisible, uncaused, substantial whole—in fact, it is the only substantial whole.
Outside of Nature, there is nothing, and everything that exists is a part of Nature and is brought into being by Nature with a deterministic necessity.
This unified, unique, productive, necessary being just is what is meant by ‘God’.
Because of the necessity inherent in Nature, there is no teleology in the universe. God or Nature does not act for any ends, and things do not exist for any set purposes. There are no “final causes” (to use the common Aristotelian phrase). God does not “do” things for the sake of anything else. The order of things just follows from God’s essences with an inviolable determinism.
All talk of God’s purposes, intentions, goals, preferences or aims is just an anthropomorphizing fiction.
Besides being false, such an anthropomorphic conception of God standing as judge over us can have only deleterious effects on human freedom and activity, insofar as it fosters a life enslaved to hope and fear and the superstitions to which such emotions give rise.
