If this were not the case, then Satan would have the powers of
an independent omnipotent being, something Christian doctrine doesn't allow.
Not exact matches
God
is «the
Omnipotent» (AH 2.5.4), free and
independent, «the Lord
Omnipotent» (4.17.3,5).9 And this
is especially reflected in God's act of initial creation.
On the other hand his control and efficacy operate not by arbitrary (that
is to say,
independent and «
omnipotent») overruling, nor by
being the only active elements in the occasion; but by the persuasive molding of new possibilities, by redirecting the pressures of prior actualities, by providing new opportunity for advance, and by offering the «lure» which evokes from each occasion in the ongoing process the movement towards satisfaction of its «subjective aim».
Unless you claim to
be able to provide a systemic framework of thought,
independent of an
omnipotent creator, that can explain why our reality
is bound by certain fundamental rules that we can not break.