QUOTE : Consider the alternatives to God being eternally triune. We could say God does not have personal relationships, in which case we have a capacity (for relationships) that the omnipotent God does not have. Or we could say that God in eternity was only potentially personal, in which case relationships are something God adds to Himself, but which are not essentially part of how He is, making God ultimately impersonal. Or we would have to say God needed to create the world to perfect the relational lack in Himself. But if God needed to create the world, then God's love is not gracious (for God then acts out of His inner need) and creation is not free (for creation would have to meet the divine need). So if God is not eternally triune, then "we are left with a lesser God, because we are left with a God for whom personhood is unsatisfied in his essential being for creation".