Traderboy, here is one little thing you overlook in Scripture: the "Father of Lies" cannot create life, he can only destroy it. The Pharasees put this same question to Jesus and He answered quite simply. A house divided against itself cannot stand. If He was Satan, and was doing miracles that work against Satan, then how does Satan have any power? I never once saw any instance in Scripture where Satan could create life, only destroy it. When Satan was allowed to play god with Job's life, he made it a living nightmare of sickness and death. It was God who restored everything Satan took away. It is God who took our sin away and gave us new life through Christ's death and resurrection. Satan has no power to do that. All he knows is to rape, to kill, and to destroy. He has no power to restore health, only to take it away. He has no power to give, only to take away. He has no power to rise from death. Only God can create life and make it grow.
