[metmom]

GOod point -- so you agree that we Christians accept the term *trinity* on proof texts without the word actually appearing in Scripture, correct?

I don't think anybody has denied that.

I don't see that Scripture alone contradicts that passage. (Eph 4:11-15)

Ephesians 5:25-27 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

The word is all we need to be fully equipped. It's all Jesus ever appealed to as testimony of Himself. It all points to Him...

John 5:39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

[Not gonna take it anymore]

“Ephesians 5:25-27 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.”

See, right here in Ephesians 5:27, you see the Catholic Church.