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There is no place in the bible that defines the Trinity in the way we teach it either. Did you realize that?

Yep, thoroughly thrashed and unable to produce a verse of any kind, you will now delcare the Trinity to be unScriptural.

Sigh! Ok, I'll play: What aspect of the Trinity is not Scriptural? (I'll check your response after I get done walking my dog.)

The doctrine of the Trinity: Once a Christian has the doctrine of the Trinity, Scripture can be found to support it, but no verse or combination of verses in Scripture tells us that there is one God in Three Persons, each Person wholly and entirely God, all co-equal, co-eternal, and possessing the divine nature totally unto Himself, the Godhead having but one divine intellect and one divine will.

The Holy Spirit is one of the three Persons of the Trinity: Certainly Scripture can be found which tells us the Holy Spirit is God (e.g., Acts 5:3-4), but nowhere does it say that God consists of more than one Person. Numerous early heresies concerning the Holy Spirit arose both because the canon of Scripture was not yet fully defined and because those elements of Scripture that were recognized were simply not all that clear on how the Holy Spirit fit into the Godhead.

What you defend to the Mormons on a daily basis originated in Rome. I just had this discussion with someone else earlier this evening.

Ephesians 2:18, read in its overall Biblical context with verses which teach that God is One, definitely teaches the doctrine of the Trinity.

Also, Matthew 28:19 presents the doctrine of the Trinity ("baptizing them in the Name [singular] of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" [hence, we are forced to understand God as One Being of Three Persons].)

And of course, there is the Johannine Comma.

There are many other examples of this sort of solid proof of the Trinity of God. Of course, I wouldn't expect the average RC to know any of this. (It is standard Protestant knowledge; but then again, Protestant pastors carefully, methodically teach the Bible!)