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but hotly debated since Scripture doesn't speak of the triune nature, just the persons.

I don't agree at all. The two things that come to mind is when the Pharisees asked Christ if he was the Son of God, and he answered them saying, "I am." Christ also stated that He and His Father were one. There's also Genesis, where the Scriptures show God as saying let us create man in our image. There is much in the Bible to suggest a triune God.

This is only partially correct: Correct that Jesus explicitly said that He was "in the Father" and the Father was in Him; and Genesis certainly implies a plurality of persons in God, but the Holy Spirit is not applied likewise. Of course the Church Fathers were able to discern in the first century that there was triunity in the Godhead, but the equality among all three persons is not explicit. Further, there were plenty of heresies simmering to a boil in the early days of the Church because these issues simply weren't black and white. It took the Council of Nicaea for the Church Fathers to come together and define infallibly that the Godhead is triune, and of one substance - not just three persons immediately related to each other.

I don't agree at all. The two things that come to mind is when the Pharisees asked Christ if he was the Son of God, and he answered them saying, "I am." Christ also stated that He and His Father were one. There's also Genesis, where the Scriptures show God as saying let us create man in our image. There is much in the Bible to suggest a triune God.

There is. Nevertheless, the matter was not settled definitively until the year 325 A.D. at a Church Council.

I believe that the passage in Genesis constitutes a reference to the Trinity. This interpretation has a long tradition in Christian history. But the Jews, to this day, regard the passage as a reference to God and the angels.

The two things that come to mind is when the Pharisees asked Christ if he was the Son of God, and he answered them saying, "I am." Christ also stated that He and His Father were one.

But there is no direct reference to Christ, The Father and The Holy Spirit being one, is there? Nevertheless, the command to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" should suffice as proof.

Nor is Christ's dual nature immediately obvious from these passages. Arianism was a very widespread heresy at one time in the history of the Church.