So does this mean the Trinity is made up of whole cloth in your eyes ? Sorta like the assumption ,that is not found in scripture or tradition?
BTW I can defend the trinity from scripture, and I believe that is where the church fathers found it.
You may be interested in the fact that most faiths that came directly from the reformation also do not believe in the rapture. That is a part of the counter reformation.
Er, you are more than welcome to try to define it, solely based on Scriptures, as it was defined by 341 AD. I really want to see that work!
Trinity was defined before the Bible was fully assembled. Individual Gospels and wiritngs were known to a few people, but most of the teaching was done by oral tradition.
There were almost one thousand bishops around at the time Tirnity was defined and redefined within the first half of the 4th century. Surely, you don't think they all had copies of the yet unpublished Bible in order to forumate the concept of Trinity.
The full concept of Trinity was completed and defined by the Synod of Bishops (first two Ecumenical Councils), as we know it today (without the Latin Filioque) some 50 years before the Bible was canonized by the Church.
I think there is a distinct difference when the Church as a hole agrees to a doctrine as opposed to some offshoot of an offshoot.