It's an important question that needs context. This is a question/commentary about religion, specifically Christianity so if that isn't your cup of tea fair warning.

The question occurred to me the other day and brought surprising clarity, even as an atheist.

I'm an unapologetic atheist but I still genuinely want to understand. In that desire to understand I had an epiphany. It's the simplest of questions: "why".

What do I mean? Why would an omnipotent being, literally all powerful, that exists at every moment of time simultaneously, care about us specifically? Seriously, why? It makes no sense.

John 3:16 does not answer that question because that simply engenders the same question: why?

Don't accept Matthew 1:21 either. Because that simply engenders the same question: why? "Because God loves us because he created us"

Because that simply engenders the same question: why? Why would they even create us? To what end?

Think about it with a critical eye. Why would an omnipotent being that literally exist at every moment in time, create flawed beings and then punish us for all eternity, without any opportunity for forgiveness after our mortal death, for our mistakes that they already knew we were going to make in the first place? Why go through that at all? Why be born at all if they already know we will spend all of eternity being tortured and suffering in the end? It's a little demented if you think about it from the outside looking in.

My point is the question is simple and stands up to even the deepest introspection. More than willing to listen to an answer but in fairness I cannot find a response that does generate the same response: Why?