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Your belief that scientists think everything came from nothing is wrong. All matter that exists always existed in some form.
I did not state that "scientists think eerything came from nothing" per se.
Some scientists redefine "nothing" to mean something like a quantum vacuum or something else extrememly esoteric.
Lawrence Krauss for example would argue strenuosly that his "nothing" actually is something.
I persoanlly do not believe that material is eternal in any form.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1) marks the origin of time, space, matter, energy, material, laws of physics, etc. the whole shooting match. The exception is God Himself who is uncreated.
"All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being which has come into being." (John 1:3)
God is the one
"who gives life to the dead and calls the things not being as being."
" [God of Abraham] . . . who gives life to the dead and calls the things not being as being." (Romans 4:17b)
He spoke and the universe stood fast.
[b]"Let all the earth fear Jehovah; Let all the inhabitants of the earth stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was; He commanded, and it stood." (Psalm 33:8,9)
That is not a scientific explanation. But it is true truth.
We might get a similar sense of this as to when we think or imagine something.
With the eternal God, in whose image we were created, it is ultimate. Being, the universe, existence and all other things beside God Himself was commanded into being. He has the ultimate authority and power.
However we divide and subdivide the elements of the universe in ANY kind of quanta the reason for the existence of the universe lies outside of itself in God who trandcends forever His creation.
Though He is uncreated, self existing and trancends all time and space He has the ability to enter into it.
Imagine like an author who can write himself into his novel as a character.
He called all tbhings into being. But He entered creation, clothed Himself in creation and dwelt among us . . . ie.
"tabernacled" among us.
"And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality." (v.14)
The uncreated God in history tabernacled among us in Jesus Christ, demonstrating in many ways His absolute trandcendance, including His conquering of death itself in His resurrection from the dead.
"Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live; And everyone who lives and believes into Me shall by no means die forever. Do you believe this." (John 11:25)
This is not a scientific explanation. But it is true truth. And that is what we want in addition to
"How does stuff work mechanically?"
I wrote a song about this -
Because Out From Him - Romans 11:34 - 35
https://soundcloud.com/jack-wilmore/because-out-from-him-romans-11