Less explicit regarding the Trinity, yet richer with insight, is this: if God is love as John the Evangelist tells us (1 John 4:8, 16) and love involves fully giving oneself to the beloved, then there had to have been someone to receive his love. Otherwise, God’s love would be imperfect, because it would not be willing the good of another person. Furthermore, if God existed as love for all eternity, the beloved must have existed for all eternity.
Then, at the very end of St. Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus’ final words reference a third person - still within the oneness: ”Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Note that Jesus does not say “in the names of...” Three persons, but with one name, and therefore one being.
Just as the love of husband and wife creates a new person, the eternal love shared between the Father and Son is itself an eternal person—the Holy Spirit. It is only through the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity all these insights about God fall miraculously into place.
In Christ, Ken.
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