 The second possible explanation—though Baylor thinks this implausible—has to do with the way that Ockham understands the foundations of morality as compared with Aquinas. For Ockham, there is no essential connection between the moral order as it currently exists and the divine wisdom. The highest norm of morality is the divine will. It just so happens that murder, for example, is wrong today. But there is no reason that God could not make murder right tomorrow if he so willed. The moral order, in short, is contingent. On the Thomistic view, however, the natural law is a participation in the eternal law. It is the point of contact between God’s plan for us as conceived in the divine mind, on the one hand, and the human intellect, on the other. Synderesis, as we saw above, plays a key role in this connection insofar as it grasps the moral principles that lead human beings to their final destiny. Moreover, the moral principles that guide us in how to achieve our final end are as true today as they were yesterday, and indeed will be for all time, owing to the natures that God has bestowed upon us. As Baylor writes: