The love of God Though love is not the only quality that God possesses, as some seem to think, it is certainly emphasised in the Bible. As the New Testament constantly stresses, this love was supremely demonstrated in the dying of Jesus for our sins, and is personally experienced by believers through the Holy Spirit in their lives. Obviously, the only way to do this would be by creating inferior beings with whom to share that love. But if God has always been love then naturally this raises a problem. Richard of Saint Victor wrestled with this problem in the twelfth century.
Created beings are exceedingly poor receivers and depressingly low-wattage transmitters of love.
Therefore, said Richard, there must be at least two persons in God himself. Yet God is also perfectly good. A thoroughly good being would not jealously protect two-person love, but would generously share such love with a third. Whether we fully accept this logic or not, it does provide a solution to the eternal existence of love. The situation then arises whereby we may be caught up in that love, the love that has always been there, because God has always been there.