"The reason it didn't take you hundreds of years to figure it out is because the Church had already defined it for non-Catholics."
Again, I speak for myself. It's CLEARLY in the Bible for ANYONE to read and accept. THAT is what I did. I didn't look to the "church". I simply read it in the Bible. I NEVER take the word of man to heart. I have to see the truth myself.
"It didn't take the Church hundreds of years to figure it out either. They already knew it, but had to set down definitions to combat heresies, such as the Arian heresy."
Heresies will happen regardless of what "is written". It is God who inspired the writing of the Bible by particular people - NOT the "church".
Okay, you picked up a Bible all by yourself and figured out the Trinity when the word isn't even in the Bible.
I think a more likely scenario is that a pastor, from whatever denomination you adhere to, explained it to you and you used the Bible to back up what the man said.
Deny it all you want, it is the Catholic Church that called it the Trinity, helped to define it so it is better understood.
If it is so easily discerned as you claim, then you better toss out the story of Philip and the Eunuch.
"And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?
"Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.