Perhaps the most debated question in Arnauld scholarship is whether Arnauld follows René Descartes in holding that God freely creates the eternal truths (the creation doctrine). In this chapter, I offer the first systematic treatment of this issue in Arnauld’s early texts from the 1640s. I begin by distinguishing between two versions of the creation doctrine: the metaphysical and the epistemic. According to the former, God in fact freely creates the eternal truths, while according to the latter we do not know whether God creates the eternal truths, and we should not say that God did not create the eternal truths. I then trace Arnauld’s view through the early texts. I argue that in his earliest texts Arnauld does not hold either version of the doctrine, but likely holds a version of voluntarism in line with his early nominalism and I also compare his early view with Ockham’s. I then argue that in the later texts from the 1640s Arnauld’s view changes and by 1648 he likely held the epistemic creation doctrine.