It may not be an unfair comparison, though I would not make it myself...

[ He pauses as he considers how to explain it, but continues smoothly once he reorients. ]

To simply create is not divine. Practically speaking, there are limits, since I could not create life, for example. If there were a trifle I wished for, such as a feather quill, that is not so hard... But something like a telephone is beyond my ability, even normally. And that is only to create! I am bound by a great many rules, at least normally speaking. Such an existence is quite far from divine, at least by my measure.