It’s kind of like talking about whether the light switch can generate a current through it. No it can’t. But it can permit the current to flow.
Only if an external force acts on it to permit the flow of current, which again leaves unresolved exactly what it is man can do in a fallen, spiritually dead condition. Which illustrates nicely the reason why we must rely on Scripture and not imaginative illustrations from physical nature. We are not, at our essence, material beings, and materialistic explanations of spiritual reality are doomed to failure, apart from those sanctioned by Scriptural revelation, for reasons you have already cited concerning God's capacity for accurate self-revelation.