creatio ex nihilo and the crucifixion

The God who is able to create out of nothing is able to create faith where there is no faith, righteousness where there is no righteousness, life where there is only the finality of death. By now the reader will readily see the connection between these affirmations and the crucifixion. On the cross, the disciples’ faith was destroyed. Perfect righteousness was consigned to nothingness by an unholy collusion of the “godly” (the religious establishment) and the “ungodly” (the imperial Gentile authorities). The Giver of eternal life was put to death and consigned to hell.—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, 599 (emphasis original)