  We have now seen two competing accounts of Spinoza’s views about the modal status of finite objects. Some argue that Spinoza endorses a strong form of determinism (since the infinite modes or laws of nature are themselves necessary) that falls short of full-blown necessitarianism. On this reading, finite modes do not exist necessarily and there are alternative possibilities to the series of actual finite modes that God did not bring about.  Others have argued that Spinoza’s account of the relationship between God and finite modes readily accommodates full-blown necessitarianism and that, given the large number of passages in which Spinoza appears to affirm necessitarianism without qualification, there is strong evidence that Spinoza intentionally endorsed full-blown necessitarianism.