Henry,
thank you for the heads up. You are basically right. Nothing can come from nothing, but we need to go to science besides philosophy to prove this.
Science meaning the state of human knowledge indicates that there was a Beginning of the universe which we call the Big Bang. For this to be a true Beginning as depicted in Genesis 1 time and space must not be absolute as Newton thought based on his monistic theological and scientific world view.
Einstein reshaped scientific thinking to state that time and space are not absolute, but relational to each other and matter/energy. What this means is that the physical universe cannot be created out of “empty space,” because space is not empty or space is not nothing, but the result of something.
The evidence behind the Big Bang theory bears this out. Matter, energy, space, and time came into existence all at the same time, although we separate them by nanoseconds. The fact is there is no scientific basis to claim that the universe came out of empty space, as if the empty space of our universe is the same as what existed before our universe began!
To repeat current scientific thinking based on Einstein rather than Newton and the Big Bang clearly says that the universe came into existence out of nothing and from nowhere. Before the Big Bang there was no time, no space, no matter, and no energy, and this can also be demonstrated based on Einstein’s Theory. (This also raised the question as to how are time and space interdependent entities if they are not composed of matter/energy?)
The question that you and other have raised is, From whence does the universe come? The wise scientist does not try to answer that question unless there is some real evidence, which does not exist at the p[resent time. Multi-universe speculation is just that and must be treated as that until proven. Right now we must treat the Big Bang and the one time Beginning of the universe as fact.
The natural laws of the universe might be inherent to our universe, but again since the universe has not existed forever, they too must have come from somewhere. Then too, if natural laws govern the physical universe, are there not rational laws and spiritual laws that govern the rational and spiritual aspects of the universe?