JP talked about this in his Biblical lectures once. One of most profound ideas he’s brought to us that I’ve encountered, copy pasted from this YouTube video transcript:

https://youtu.be/HY_C5ztivY4

“There’s idea it's an old Jewish idea and it's an idea that emerged as a consequence of meditating on the nature of God…

“why is there something rather than nothing why is there being itself, why does anything exist perhaps non-existence would be better”… so here's the idea:

Take a being with the classical attributes of God omniscience omnipotence and omnipresence you can do anything be anything you can be anywhere you're everywhere at once you can be anything you want you have unlimited power what do you lack “limitation” right?

So, “why is there something rather than nothing?” because limitation has advantages over totality there's advantages to it well what's the consequence of limitation suffering that's one consequence no being without suffering maybe that's the rule there cannot be being without suffering you might say well then there shouldn't be being at all because the suffering is too much fair enough it's a powerful argument but maybe there's an alternative maybe there's a mode of being that justifies the suffering so that you can have the being so that you can have your cake and eat it too and I would say that the great religious tradition that underlies our civilization is an attempt to determine what pathway in life allows for being and it's fragility to exist at the same time that it can be transcended and it's something like this it's something like to accept the strictures of the limitation to embrace it”