Thoughts about Trinity beliefs

[Longfellow]

this person or that person, or this denomination or that denomination -
It means if you have an idea like the trinity, which seems counterintuitive, not at all self evident, and at least plausibly in tension with the idea of God Is One--
Then, defending that reasoning -- even if it is over and over again -- is called for. Because the questions will come up, over and over again.
I don't see why it bothers anybody to hear the questions/challenges about the trinity and have to explain.
I don't see why anybody -- even if you're fully invested in the idea of the trinity and it makes sense to you, in your own brain -- I don't see why you wouldn't be completely understanding of the fact that people point out ways in which it does not make self evident sense. And find it not very burdensome to repeat the case for the idea whenever called upon.

I'm not disagreeing with any of that, but it has nothing to do with the word "Trinity" not being in the Bible. My point, now that I've remembered it again, is that the fact that the word "Trinity" is not in the Bible has nothing to do with whether some beliefs that people call "the Trinity" agree with the Bible or not. The word "Trinity" not being in the Bible is a false argument against the beliefs that people are calling "the Trinity." I'll give you an example. I'll define "the Trinity" as whatever the Bible says about the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Because the label that I'm using for what the Bible says is not in the Bible, that doesn't mean that what the Bible says doesn't agree with what the Bible says.

 

[Longfellow]

Update on my thoughts about the Trinity:

"The Trinity" could just simply mean the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, without saying anything about who or what they are or what they do. It could also mean "whatever the Bible says about the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" again without people trying to say it in their own words. The problems come when people try to say in their own words or someone else's what the Bible says about them, and call that "the Trinity," without ever thinking about what the Bible says in its own words, and without knowing or caring what the context is, diverting attention from the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit themselves, our relationships with them, and their role in our lives.