God is Triune apart from creation

God is not triune because of anything that takes place in this world. God would be triune even if he had not created the world. What takes place in the world reveals what is true in eternity.

 

Kevin Giles, The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 8