The cumulative case combines scriptural arguments about God's universal creativity and human acts with rational arguments about the contingency of actions, the limits of exhaustive human knowledge, and the meaning of independent origination. One should neither ignore a verse's genuine grammatical alternative nor rest the entire doctrine on a single analogy.
Mistake 1: inferring “humans have no choice” from “God creates the act.”
Mistake 2: inferring “humans independently create existence” from “humans choose.”
The careful conclusion is that the existence of an act belongs to divine creation, while its voluntary moral attribution belongs to human acquisition. The distinctions between decree, approval, and divine will remain essential to the doctrine.