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Reasons Why You Have to Believe in the Trinity

Suppose the Father existed alone. For a person to exist alone would be bad. A divine person is a perfectly good person, and that involves being a loving person. A loving person needs someone to love.

The Father will bring into existence another divine person with whom to share his rule of the universe. Following tradition, let us call that other person 'God the Son'.

St Augustine wrote that if the Father wished to cause the Son to exist, and was unable to do it, he would have been weak; if he was able to do it but did not wish to, he would have been ungenerous (that is, because he wished to be the only divine person). Hence the Father would not exist at all unless he caused the Son to exist.

The love of the Father for the Son must include a wish to cooperate with the Son in further total sharing with a third member of the Trinity, whom, following tradition, we may call the Holy Spirit, whom they will love and by whom they will be loved.

In the twelfth century Richard of St Victor made this point and gave a further argument for it. He wrote that anyone who really loves someone will seek the good of that person by finding some third person for him to love and be loved by.

Hence the Trinity must have always existed. The perfect goodness of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit means that they love each other without limit.
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