“If God is eternal, existing from the beginning, and if God is love, whom did He love at the beginning, when there was not yet a creation? The answer is that He loved the Son and the Holy Spirit who also loved each other and Him. The three persons of the Godhead loved one another. Without this mysterious detail, God’s love would be rendered a hollow-non- eternal-attribute. Love must have an object. The one being we call Yahweh, shared his love internally among his three Persons…

I couldn’t believe that God can be just one person in one nature, because God is love. How could
God be loving if He is just one person, on His own?

What could love even mean in that situation? Whomdid He love before creation? The general discussion of my reasoning on this matter follows. Today, I perceive that the God of Islam is imperfect compared to the one true God of Christianity.

1. God is the greatest conceivable being ever. Therefore, God should be perfect.

2. Love is the highest moral value we know. Therefore, God should be loving.

3. Love is a relationship in which one party gives to the other, not only inwardly-focused as a selfish being.

4. If God exists and has the attribute of being loving, who is the other before anything was created? The foundational object of God’s attribute of being loving can’t be any created thing; because creation is a result of God’s free will, not a result of God’s nature.

5. It follows that the other to whom God’s love is necessarily directed, must somehow be internal to God himself.

6. Love within God can only exist if God is in some way plural and not a single, isolated person.

7. In Islam, God is focused upon Himself; He is not a person who gives himself away essentially in love for another. As such, the Islamic God could not be the most perfect being.

8. In Christianity, God is a triad of persons in eternal self-giving love relationship, a Tri-unity.  This specialized compound word is shortened to Trinity.

9. It was not incumbent upon God to create anything if He did not want to do so. He was God before creation, and He could have chosen never to create anything. But he must be loving. Since a reality in which God never created anything is possible without violating His eternal attributes, the proposition of God existing without some internal plurality of person is simply untenable.

10. The Trinity, therefore, is not only rationally acceptable and plausible; it is necessary.”

From “It is Your Time to Follow Me”  by Thomas Samuel, pgs 53-57