And if he were to interpret these as His created effects—namely, the reward and punishment He creates—he would face the same implications he sought to escape. For an act must first subsist in its agent, and reward and punishment, as effects produced, are only in response to deeds that the One who rewards and punishes loves and is pleased with, or is displeased with and hates. Thus, if they affirm His action in the same manner as a human servant’s action is understood in the observable world, they liken Him to creation; but if they affirm it in a manner unlike that, the same applies to His attributes.