When Should God Have Created? The Paradox of Eternal Love and Time

If God is eternal and God is love, then love eternally creates. But why does creation appear to have a beginning? The paradox runs deep: endless succession suggests no true starting point, infinite containment points to creation existing eternally in God’s mind, while singular emergence implies love once existed without creation. Each possibility challenges our categories of time and reason. Perhaps the question cannot be solved—but that itself is instructive. Creation flows eternally from love, reminding us that awe, not resolution, is the truest response.