“Formless void” may be the ultimate result of sin if left unchecked, but sin’s more immediate goal is not so much to undo the creation, but violently to reconfigure the pattern of its interdependence, to “put asunder what God has joined and join what God has put asunder,” as Plantinga states more correctly (30). I will give the name “exclusion” to this sinful activity of reconfiguring the creation, in order to distinguish it from the creative activity of “differentiation.”
