God is not a solitary being; rather, He is the eternal community of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. What we get to remember is that all societies exist because of the eternal community: The Holy Trinity.
There is in God a true fatherhood that belongs to the First Person alone. From all eternity (in the beginning) The Father has been generating The Son - not as a mere attribute but as a distinct Person. St John wrote: In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God and the Word was God (emphasis added). Proceeding from the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit, also a distinct Person and not merely a part of God nor an attribute of God.
The Three Persons have the blessed inmost life of the One Divine Being. Thrice Holy God is infinitely beyond anything I can conceive in Human measure. What I can be, however, is grateful for this Triune God, the infinite mystery of Love and Community that created me in His Own Image. I am a being of body, mind and spirit - a reflection of the Holy Trinity, One God, my Creator.
I have a responsibility to treat myself with the dignity a creature of a Loving God deserves just as I have a duty to treat all His creatures accordingly and with Love.
I am bound to love the unlovable, for Jesus taught that there is not special virtue in loving those who are lovable.
Right?
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