I’ve written of this universe and its stuff as shaped from the manifested truths of the primordial universe. Looking at this from another direction, the claim becomes: there are no natural laws but only properties of particular sorts of being including their forms of interaction. What we see as abstract laws, mathematical or metaphysical, are those manifested truths or at least some approximation to them. Those truths are not laws imposed upon inert matter but are rather the stuff from which God shaped this universe and its matter and space-time. If we think in terms of the concrete being of this universe, it’s possible to think of those truths as deeper levels of created being.
This understanding of natural laws makes little practical difference to us as we go about our days trying to avoid the damage of gravity or the damage from an excess of energetic electrons. It also makes little difference to most scientists or engineers in their theorizing or experimentating or constructing of accelerators or bridges. Yet, when we try to make sense of it all, when we try to discover meanings, it’s important to realize that being should be at the center of our attention and mostly the act-of-being which brings into existence.
We do not live in a universe where inert matter, energy, and space-time have specific laws enforced upon them as if the laws could have been different for that particular universe. We live in a universe where manifested truths have been shaped into specific forms of more concrete being. That being is matter and energy and space-time and also all the laws and facts which relate them. When we find that concrete being behaves according to ‘laws’, we’re actually achieving deeper understandings of being. In a useful manner of speaking we’re penetrating to the levels of being which are those manifested truths from which it has been shaped. That is: natural laws are not external to things, natural laws as we know them are part of this universe and the created being within it. In this, they’re not so much different from the behaviors and other aspects of concrete being which have more of a factual smell to them. That is, the law-like behavior encoded in the field equation of the theory of General Relativity is not so much different from the gravitational constant as some would imagine.