I hope you can understand this simple fact...just because a doctrine doesn’t get “formally” defined until later, doesn’t mean it wasn’t something that had already been believed universally by Christians. I ask you once again to read back over this thread and see the many, many verses of Scripture that point to the divinity of Jesus Christ AS taught by Jesus as well as the earliest Christians and which were the foundation for the definition of the Trinity. I wouldn’t think of trying to force anyone to believe something - nor could I do so. All I know is that the Holy Spirit is who opens eyes and hearts to receive the truth...you just have to be willing to seek it with all your heart.
just because a doctrine doesn’t get “formally” defined until later, doesn’t mean it wasn’t something that had already been believed universally by Christians.
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Clearly it wasn’t “already universally believed” by Christians - it was a radical departure: “rife with contention, political agitation, and radical dissension in the early Church.” This begs the question: What did Christians believe BEFORE the bianity 300 years later and the trinity 400 years later?
Not only is there nothing in Tanach supporting Three, everything there supports One and warns of the consequences of deviating from One.
HaShem didn’t make mistakes in the “Old Testament.” There is no need for a “new testament” and in fact we’re explicitly warned about that. The same applies to the Quran, the “final testament.”
One can believe whatever they want and ‘have faith’ in whatever they want but the Tanach is crystal clear on the indivisible, non-partitioned, Unity of HaShem.