 In response, the theist proposes a variety of predictable alternatives. One option is that God is posited as the creator of each specific thing at its specific time due to God’s having unique, temporally-indexed desires. One person is caused by God’s desire for a person to be born in Gandhāra in the fourth century, and another person is caused by God’s desire for a person to be born in New York City in 1969. Vasubandhu responds that if that is the case, then things are not caused by a unitary God, but rather each thing is caused by one of God’s countless, distinct desires. Furthermore, the theist is then responsible to account for the causes of those specific desires.