(March 7, 2015 at 8:09 pm)Sionnach Wrote:(March 7, 2015 at 7:57 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: And why does God, if He exists outside the laws of physics, have to come from anything? Why do you apply the standards of the creation to the Creator?
Because, as you stated, something cannot come from nothing. To state that god is exempt is special pleading.
But why wouldn't God be exempt? You can label the argument however you like, but you are again applying rules and limitations to the One Who is beyond all rules and limitations. He must necessarily be beyond such as omnipotent God, no?
(March 7, 2015 at 8:09 pm)Sionnach Wrote:(March 7, 2015 at 7:57 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: Why does everything have to operate under rules?
Because that is how the natural world works.
Again, there is no reason to apply the laws of the natural world to that which is unnatural.
There is simply no way to explain something coming from nothing. We are no closer to understanding how matter came into existence than we were thousands of years ago. It always comes back to the same necessary step of providing an original source, and nothing else even comes close to explaining it as satisfactorily as God.