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The Bible indicates the Triune God in Genesis when God makes man in "Our Image" More than one was involved in the Godhead.

The Holy Spirit came at Christ's Baptism as a Dove.

The Holy Spirit came to the Apostles and Disciples as a Tongue of Fire on Pentecost.

The evidence from the Gospels culminates in the baptismal commission of Matthew 28:20. It is manifest from the narratives of the Evangelists that Christ only made the great truth known to the Twelve step by step. First He taught them to recognize in Himself the Eternal Son of God. When His ministry was drawing to a close, He promised that the Father would send another Divine Person, the Holy Spirit, in His place. Finally after His resurrection, He revealed the doctrine in explicit terms, bidding them "go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:18). The force of this passage is decisive. That "the Father" and "the Son" are distinct Persons follows from the terms themselves, which are mutually exclusive. The mention of the Holy Spirit in the same series, the names being connected one with the other by the conjunctions "and . . . and" is evidence that we have here a Third Person co-ordinate with the Father and the Son, and excludes altogether the supposition that the Apostles understood the Holy Spirit not as a distinct Person, but as God viewed in His action on creatures.

The use of Trinity is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A.D. 180.

The Trinity has more support in the Bible than any rapture. St. Paul mentions being taken up to the third heaven but admits he did know what it meant or how God was using it. It had no teaching regarding anyone in any time frame being chosen and disappearing from their surroundings.

The problem with that is unless a group calls that canon - others can read another version out of those passages - that is sola scriptura in practice.

There are hints but no clear forumlation of Trinity in the Scriptures.

There is no relationship of hypostases clearly defined. There is nothing in the Scriptures resembling the Symbol of Faith (Creed) as defined by the Second Ecumenical Council which is valid to this day.