i got reminded of something the other day on jarvino's blog, about the love the trinity have for each other before the world was formed - and how there are aspects of God's character that can't be expressed when a world like ours isn't created.
"Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us"
in just the trinity, nothing is lacking, so nothing needs to be forgiven. there are no enemies.
that means God cannot express his capacity to be able to love his enemies, even the willingness to include those not worthy into the trinitarian love.
in creating the world, God is able to 'demonstrate his love for us'. us? well, us who were sinners. he is able to enact all the parts of his forgiving, merciful personality that was simply not neccesary to do within the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. the world creation allows him a bit of give to say 'this is what i can do' to those who never knew - not that he needed to prove his goodness before the world was made... but don't we live in the good of a god who is like this, would i want it to be unknown? not really =)
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