The specific genre of Rozanov's philosophizing - short fragments connected with the circumstances of place and time. God creates world from nothingness, but He cannot limit the freedom which is prior to God. God is not all-powerful. He cannot eradicate evil rooted in freedom. Man can struggle against evil through the exercise of his own free will.
Creation is different from birth and emanation.
It brings into life something absolutely new that never existed before. Freedom and creativity are peculiar to human personality and distinguish it from everything else in the world. All generic and general features of a human which belong to history, tradition, society, class, nation, family, are alien to personality and must be eventually overcome in the acts of creativity. The task of personality is to create one's own self. Personality is both alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of the creative process.