Question about the Trinity and three persons

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What is the Catholic Church position on this:

Is the Trinity an attribute of God that is an essential attribute?
Could God have been just consist of one person even though we accept there are three persons?
If not, what is it about three persons that is so superior to one person or 2 persons or 4 persons and what is so bad about one person that it is incompatible with God?
But if so, then God is not really infinite because there is a chance He could have been different?
Or do we say its too hard for us to understand and the Church is silent on this issue?
 
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God is three Persons in His Essence. Better not to speak of this as an “attribute” at all - it is what God is.

There could theoretically have only been 2, or 1 (insofar as this is imaginable), but it turns out there are 3 - it is a “brute fact” which shows us what the “bottom” of existence really is - there is no contingency here. There could not have been 4 or more, as there are no possible interior processions other than of intellect and will.
 
So what is it about 1 person or 2 persons that is inconsistent with the bottom of existence?
 
The simple fact that it is not how it is… There is nothing more to say about it, really. God simply is three Persons.
 
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What is the Catholic Church position on this:

Is the Trinity an attribute of God that is an essential attribute?
Could God have been just consist of one person even though we accept there are three persons?
If not, what is it about three persons that is so superior to one person or 2 persons or 4 persons and what is so bad about one person that it is incompatible with God?
But if so, then God is not really infinite because there is a chance He could have been different?
Or do we say its too hard for us to understand and the Church is silent on this issue?
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It’s an axiomatic belief that is neither subject to proof nor provable.

Trinitarian Christians promote the 3-in-1, 1-in-3. Muslims and Jews have the one guy.
 
God is love. Love must be shared. Thus God must exist as a communion of persons who can exchange love. God is a community.
 
Two are required for relationship; three for fruitful relationship. These must be God for relationship and fruition to be eternal.
 
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