This is why only Christians can rightly claim, “God is love.” If love, at its core, is selfless giving, there could be no love without someone for God to give love to. “If God was a single person,” Lewis noted, “then before the world was made, he was not love.”16 Love is not a virtue of solitary selves. It cannot be known alone, but lives only in the sharing. If God is not Triune, he cannot love until he creates. Thus, love would be a quality he gains, not an unchangeable moral perfection deep in his being. This is a problem, by the way, for the Muslim understanding of God. He can show love,
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