The aim of this paper is to analyze Ronald N. Giere’s claim that the four characteristics associatedwith laws of nature - truth, universality, necessity, and objectivity - have a theological origin. Itis argued that in some important cases theological justification of these features was absent, thatsome theological ideas made it even more difficult to think about laws of nature in this way, andthat there were good reasons internal to science to formulate the notion of laws of nature in thisparticular way.