A man imagines a silk thread, imagines a machine to make it, imagines a picture, then by weeks of labor embroiders it on canvas with the thread. I think the whole thing, and in a moment it is before you--created.
For the purposes of fiction, I can accept this description. But reality, what we have testified in the Scriptures, indicates otherwise. Satan cannot create from nothing as God can. Satan cannot will things into existence. He betrays and deceives. He influences. But "ex nihilo" belongs to God and God alone.
