I would agree with this in the sense that this Love in its nature is self-giving. It's not that it does not exist, nor cannot exist without involving another, but it's nature is that of self-emptying which is inherently ever outflowing. The creation of the world itself is the result of this outpouring, I tend to think of it that way, not out of a deficiency, but out of abundance. And I think that really defines Agape Love best, Abundance.I think Love, agape Love, which is not self-seeking, nor self-focused (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) is a Love which then by necessity involves another.
I tend to think of Trinity and Agape as less about three "people" sharing love, but more along the lines of nature of Godhead itself as Source and Flow. Agape is what is inherent to that eternal Being, out of which all creation flows. The Trinity is to me like the sun in its nuclear Core and its radiant Light and heat, which flows out giving Life to the universe. Unlike our sun, this is eternally existing, and ever-creating, before this universe and beyond. In this sense there cannot be one without the other, as the very nature of God is this outflowing creative Being or Self. That's Agape Love in how I visualize it and speak of it.I believe this Love is eternally existent in the Godhead as revealed in the biblical scriptures. A Being composed of three Persons who are eternally existent and always expressing Love one for another.
I would agree with that. Divine Love is the divine. If one expresses this in their person, they are expressing the divine through them. Realizing that Source within ourselves is through emptying ourselves into God, getting rid of the "false self" as the Buddhist might call it, the little ego self which is always self-seeking and bound to attachments it clings to and subsequently unable to fully release, and realizing the true Self, or "finding God" in Christian terms. This is death and resurrection, in Christian terms, or being "born again". The small self dies, the true Self rises.My perspective is that agape Love can only come from its Source.
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