 Divine promises, revelations, and enactments were all in Holkot’s view ungrounded in divine goodness in the sense that God was not under obligation because of his goodness to fulfill them or keep them in being. The contingency of the ordained system was a fact of the human condition. So what reassurance could human beings have that keeping faith with God’s precepts would result in their salvation? What would happen if God were to set aside the current law and enact some incompatible alternative, as it would clearly seem to be in God’s power to do? If God did not inform people about such a change, then invincible ignorance would protect them from being held accountable for not following the new laws. Holkot did not believe that God could ask people to obey laws of which they were ignorant because that would require them to do what is impossible and contradictory. And if God did inform people of the new laws, then these laws would supersede the incompatible old set, and the faithful could obey God without being held to contradictory commands.