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Thanks for your input. I agree that the early councils convened to “formalize” the central doctrines of the Christian faith and on the subject of the Trinity I honestly believe they did pretty well for their times. What they learned from the Apostles and their disciples aided them in their understanding and, hence, their recording of their deliberations and conclusions. Although I agree the Nicean description is not perfectly spelled out in Scripture in the exact same way, I also know that the truths ARE in the Scriptures. Even the feeble attempts of humans - and as smart and Spirit-lead as most of them were - are insufficient to encompass the full glory and majesty of the triune nature of Almighty God. Many people - Christian people even - struggle to get their minds around the concept and it is hardly difficult to know why seeing as we have finite minds incapable of comprehending the infinite. It was a good try, and it is why it is still around in use today practically unchanged.

I also know that the truths ARE in the Scriptures.

Oh yes. But I say not in a way that they can be "proved" by Scripture except in a manner analogous to the proving of Newton's laws by observation.