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How can you possibly be making a claim that Paul’s verse, written by the Holy Spirit and directed by God, does not support the Christian Trinitarian view? What that is saying is that God doesn’t support the Trinitarian view and directed Paul to write it. You either have to accept the fact that all scripture is God-breathed and fits together, or simply reject it. Paul’s view cannot be contrary to the rest of the scriptures.

I'm not saying that Paul is a rejection of the rest of Scriptures. I'm saying that you cannot put a proof together of the Athenasian Creed, for instance, from Paul's works. I'm saying, and have supplied some examples, that Paul's writings support a subordinationalist viewpoint.

I wish that you could prove me wrong. Will you take on that task and compare Pauls subordinationalist verses with his Trinitarian ones? I would be grateful. If you could construct the Athenasian Creed's definition of the Trinity, that would be even better.

I would simply point out what Peter stated:

2Pe 3:15-16 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

1) Peter calls Paul a beloved brother.

2) Peter acknowledges the wisdom of God given to Paul.

3) Even Peter didn't quite understand everything that Paul was saying but he verifies that it was true.

4) Ungodly people (ignorant and unstable) twist the meaning of Paul's writings to their own destruction.

5) Peter equates Paul's writings with all the other scripture giving it the same level of infallibility as the Old Testament.

Now if Peter said all of this in two verses, don't you think we'd better listen up? It doesn't matter if you can or cannot put together the Athenasian Creed from Paul's writings. The Athenasian Creed, though we accept it as true, is NOT inspired writing. Paul's writings are. We have it confirmed by Peter.

Can you show me where Peter confirmed the Athenasian Creed? Not that I doubt it but if we know the Athenasian Creed to be true and Paul's writings to be inspired, the Athenasian Creed then must be subordinate to Paul's writings.