 Where the fact of command matters more than the substance of what is commanded, human intention to obey has greater significance than the substantive enactments of obedience. Holkot perceived the connection between divine command and the human intention to obey as at the heart of the relationship between human beings and God. For instance, Holkot posed the case of a simple old woman, who in good faith comes to church to hear a new church doctrine from her bishop. If the bishop gets the doctrine backwards, explaining to his congregation that they should believe just the opposite of what the new article of belief contains, is the elderly laywoman required to accept the words of her bishop as true? One of Holkot’s fellow scholars had argued that she would only be in this position if she were being punished for sin, but Holkot responded that it was not the substance of her belief that mattered, but her intention to do what was right and to obey God. Her intention to do her best to conform her will to God would be sufficient under the covenant to ensure her salvation if she were to persevere in that intention. God would not deny her salvation because those on whom she necessarily depended for knowledge about God’s will were misinformed or confused (Slotemaker and Witt 2015, 60–62).