 As is characteristic of his general approach to his predecessors, Suárez disagrees with both views without wholly disregarding either. He agrees that natural law, if it is genuine “law”, requires an act of imperium, a command by the legislator expressing his will. Therefore, any obligation falling under natural law derives its moral force from God's legislative act (DL I, 5.13). In Suárez's terminology, natural law is not “indicative”; it is not merely a way of telling us about what is good and what is morally bad in itself. Rather it is “preceptive”: it creates obligations that would otherwise not exist.