So strong was he in his bid to annihilate any self-determination in the creature that he came up with the following: “God’s upholding created substance, or causing its existence in each successive moment, is altogether equivalent to an immediate production out of nothing, at each moment.”319 Now, making God re-create all things out of nothing each new moment certainly stops the creature from having any self-determination, but at what cost? God is now (and at each moment) the Creator of a fallen world.
