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The bible never mentions the Trinity.

Here's another thing I'd like to see if we can agree on...

Do you guys think all doctrine should be checked or benchmarked against scripture?

The bible never mentions the Trinity.

You're correct, the word "Trinity" is not in the bible. However, the doctrine of the Trinity most certainly is. It is not the traditions of men - it is embedded in the Bible.

The bible never mentions the Trinity.

Ah, but it does. In kernel form though. You take one verse, piece it with another verse, use a little intuition, logic, and reasoning, and voila, you have a doctrine like the Trinity.

That's my problem with Sola Scriptura. Not only is it historically speaking, a recent invention, it actually inspires laziness towards learning the Scriptures. Instead of using reasoning skills, the Bible becomes a handbook to quote without thought or attention to context. So all doctrine has to be contained within one sentence in the plainest of words. Kind of a paint by numbers form of theology. When I was dealing with my on-again, currently off-again girlfriend's flirtation with Jehovah's Witnesses (I'll still never get how this unitarian wannabe Russelite gf of mine woke up one day last month deciding she wanted to be a Catholic again, a story for another time), Christian apologists I dealt with called the game of Scripture quoting "Bible hopscotch."

BTW, would you believe that when I tried convincing my gf of the evils of the Watchtower Society, it reawakened my dormant faith and actually led me to a lot of websites that were Bible-only evangelical sites, and I used to tell my gf the JW's were wrong because they believed in "a doctrine of salvation through works" and that all you needed was faith and the bible? As soon as I got exposed to some Catholic sites though, I luckily saw the light again, because Catholicism, itself called a cult on most of these evangelical sites, was able to answer all the questions the Evangelical Apologists were able to throw out.