[CynicalBear]

>>The Trinity is not defined in Scripture.<<

1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

[boatbums]

Absolutely! The “Church Fathers” did not invent the doctrine of the trinity but some clearly sought to explain it in terms that people could accept yet still admit that the totality of the whole idea was not fully comprehensible to the human mind. What I find interesting is that several early theologians, as well as many today, did not agree with the doctrine and were declared as heretics. Even some so-called Christian religions today that deny the Scriptural doctrine of the trinity and the unity of the true God in three persons are also off in many other basic tenets of the Christian faith. There can be no denying that the Bible is our source for the truths of the faith and that even most of the early fathers admitted.