Beyond nature

Belief, or unbelief in God, whether we want to or not, requires assumptions of God. Even if you don't believe in God, there has to be a definition of what you don't believe in.  Most atheists don't believe in a God that I don't believe in either.

One of the most common misconceptions of God is that God is a finite being that exists somewhere out of sight apart from our physical universe.  This view is essentially similar to the Greek "Demiurge" as a god that created the physical universe at one point of time "back then."  This is a normal way to view God, because as the material beings that we are, a finite being is an easy category to put God into to wrap our head around him. (Also, it's easy to call God "Him" because as sexual beings we think in terms of sexual orientation, and we like our God to be like one of us.)

This is an easy view for atheists and naturalistic scientists to reject when considering that there are countless scientific laws that can account for the spontaneous generation of any and all universes. If laws can begin to explain our universe, then why do we need God?

A more rational view of God, as explained by philosopher and theologian David Bentley Hart, is that laws and physical conditions were logically and necessarily prior to all worlds, all physical laws, all quantum events, and even all possibilities of laws and events.  Neither physical laws, nor quantum states could exist of themselves. God is not a force or cause within nature, and is not a kind of supreme natural explanation.

God is with us, holding our universe together.

When Jesus was kicking around dirt in the Middle East a couple of thousand years ago, he sometimes defied natural laws because He was God manifested on Earth -- the same God that wrote the laws of our universe.  Since God is love, God chooses sometimes to break the rules of nature to prove to us that we are loved.  Jesus' final act on earth was to die and come back to life because He wants us to know more than anything that he is God, and that we can know God by looking at his life on Earth.  He wanted us to see that self-sacrificial love -- giving up our life for others -- is the way of God. 

God is bigger than most of our attempts of trying to categorize and deconstruct Him.  Although God gave us Jesus to understand Him, Jesus didn't do any scientific lectures or "How I Made The Universe" TED Talks.  As interesting as these topics are, they are probably beyond our finite intelligence anyway.  Jesus was solely focused on showing us the way to life that leads to life and love.