'The true God is distinguished from false gods by two special
characteristics:
He can create and He can save.
The false gods can do
neither.
So we read again in Jeremiah 10:10-12: "But the Lord is the true 
God, he
is the living God, and an everlasting king.... The gods that have not
made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth,
and from under these heavens. He hath made the earth by his power, he
hath established the world by his wisdom, he hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion."
He who can create can redeem.
He who can
redeem can create.
But the one who cannot create cannot redeem."
W.W. Prescott