Are religions manmade and natural or supernaturally based?

We could say the same about all the laws of physics we observe. Laws of motion. Conservation laws. Second law of thermodynamics. Etc.So rather than the laws of nature we observe being a property of our universe you have somehow decided that they all existed prior to the existence of our universe.Is that correct? Or is it just conservation of mass and energy you think predates our universe and not the others? Are you just picking and choosing the ones you think support your ideas and ignoring the rest?For example - What state of entropy would an eternal entity find itself in? As a clue you yourself talked about this in Message 120

What restrictions?I am simply asking how you think God would go about answering the question "Why does something rather than nothing exist?" where God himself is the 'something' in question.If God asks himself the question "Why do I, rather than nothing, exist?"
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ICANT - Are you saying that ALL of the physical laws we observe in our universe somehow predate our universe?Or is it just "conservation of mass and energy" you think predates our universe and not the others? Are you just picking and choosing the ones you think support your ideas and ignoring the rest? And this is the crux of the issue here.If the laws in question are properties of the universe itself the the laws you speak of wouldn't actually exist until the universe itself existed. Thus applying these laws to the creation of the universe would be unwarranted.How do you react to that idea?

Which makes my point that God has no answer to the question of why something rather than nothing exists either.If we are going to accept that things just exist because they do then we might as well start with the existence of things we know to exist (e.g. The universe) rather than introducing other entities into the mix and ascribing to them all sorts of super powers.

So your position is that an unrestricted God creates a bunch of physical laws first and then provides the energy for our universe to be created because that is what the laws he has just setup demand in order for him to bring our universe into existence whilst remaining in accordance with the laws he has created but which he is unbounded by.I see.Remind me again why you think the "law of conservation of mass and energy" applies to the formation of our universe rather than being a property of it? Whether that is true or not brings us neatly back to the question of "Why is there something rather than nothing?" and what the nature of that "something" could be. Laws. God(s). Our universe. A universe creation machine. Etc.Edited by Admin, : Fix quote.