While God remains the fundamental and final source of all that is, we have also been made to depend upon one another. In any given moment, we depend upon one another through society and our interconnections with the natural world. And God has made these forms of interdependence to extend over time. The fact that any one of us exists derives from God’s granting living creatures the power to exercise their own agency, including the capacity for procreation. As individuals, we do not make ourselves,