From Jim in Canada, dear Dr. Craig, I have a question regarding the Trinity and the impossibility of crossing an actual infinite.

If interactions between the persons are infinite, how does God ever, for example, process all of the thoughts that have passed between the persons to the

point of making a decision, such as creating the universe. Even if the interactions occur outside

of created time, they would still seem to be a sequence of real events and a real infinite

generated by the persons in God's being. Does God's unity or some other

attribute play into this? I found your arguments about infinity is helpful in dealing with

Buddhist statements about an infinite universe and infinite past lives. But I can see a Buddhist

eventually raising this question in response, so I would

appreciate your thoughts. I've been searching for information, but so far I found nothing directly

addressing this issue. I'd refer, Jim, to my book, Time and Eternity. I have discussed this issue

at some length, and that would be one place where he could get some additional resources on it.

I think that the difficulty is Jim's presupposition that interactions between the persons of the

Trinity have to be sequential. He just assumes that they occur one after another.

And classical Christian theology denies that. Traditional theology

interprets God to be timeless. And therefore, the persons of the Trinity experience a complete

sharing and interpenetration of knowledge, love, and will.

The Greek Church fathers called this pericorasis, this complete sharing and interchange

of knowledge, love, and will among the persons of the Trinity that isn't sequential.

It's simply that what the Father knows, the Son and the Spirit also know, what the

Father loves, the Son and the Spirit also love. What the Father wills, the Son and the Spirit

also will. So there's a complete transparency here among the persons of the Trinity, which is why,

by the way, God is not lonely in his state of existence being without the universe.

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