God did not, because he could not, look up to an abstract principle of Truth above himself in order, in accordance with it, to fashion the world. Satan, however, suggested to Eve that God’s statement about the relation of one temporal fact to another was not determinative of the nature of that relationship. Facts and the truth about their relationships to one another can be known by man, Satan contended in effect, without getting any information about them from God as their maker and controller.