And NO the word "trinity" is not mentioned in the bible and may have first been introduced as a word or concept during the Nicene Creed, which was convened to unify the church. However, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, refer to each other as "one" throughout the Bible....read the Gospel of John.

I have no dog in this fight, but when you ask someone to point out where in the bible it does not support something, you are being unreasonable. How do you prove a negative? You could just as easily ask one to prove that he did not, in an earlier life, assassinate Lincoln.

The idea that if you do not agree with my view of Christianity then you are not a Christian is not a new one. For hundreds of years the church called such people heretics and burned them. Many of todays Protestant churches were subjected to such treatment during the Reformation.

The message of John is that we are to be "one," as the Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father.

Surely Christ wasn't praying for all of us to be swallowed up into one grand "Trinity" with the persons of the Godhead.

That the doctrine of the Trinity is not from or grounded in the Bible is well-established and accepted by Christians who accept the Trinity. You'll note that the following article's sources are all from non-Mormon, trinitarian Bible scholars.

http://en.fairmormon.org/Godhead_and_the_Trinity

A major Christian faith that doesn't accept the Trinity, which I'm sure you don't exclude from your definition of Christianity, are the various Eastern Orthodox faiths. They split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1054 A.D. over this very question (Eastern Orthodox doctrine is that the Son is separate from, and subordinate to the Father).

The lynchpin behind the vigorous efforts to brand Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons as "non-Christians" is really due to the fact that these churches both perform missionary work that leads to growth in their churches and declines in "trinitarian" ones. The Southern Baptism Convention, the nation's largest Protestant confession and foremost evangelical church, is suffering under declines in membership that are indicative of the other "mainstream" Christian churches.

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27967

This whole "Christian/non-Christian" name-calling stuff is an attempt to brand the prospering churches "mad dogs" in the hopes of poisoning the well and inocculating their membership against even considering these churches' messages.

OH GOSH!! Where are the other Christians out here!!??

In John, Jesus often refers to He and the Father being One. Jesus is the WORD. You have it all wrong. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God." Who is the Word? v14, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." Who is the Word that became flesh? John the Baptist proclaimed it," v 15 ," He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me..." v 26 "I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know. It is He who, coming after me..." V 29, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"


I am still waiting for someone to prove (using the Bible) that there is no Trinity.

It's also important to note, that many of the early christians didn't have the whole New Testament either.  Many of the writings were still being collected and sought after.

Not until 367 AD,  In his easter letter Athanasius was the first person to correctly identify the same 27 books of the New Testament we have today.    That is 42 years after the Council of Nicaea.

So there is clear reason as why the early church struggled with defining the Godhead,  they didn't have the whole New Testament.

It's actually quite simple, the Bible makes numerous mentions that there is only One God.    The Bible identifies the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as God.   Therefore it's easy to conclude there are three persons of one Being. 

Plus it becomes even clearer reading Jesus admit it himself.  Read the whole book of John, and it's clear that Jesus is YAHWEH the God of the Old Testament.  For example, He said he was the I AM the same name God  used in the Old testament and the Jews started to stone him for claiming to be God. 

Joh 8:57  So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
Joh 8:58  Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."
Joh 8:59  So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Funny how Satan does that.  He is even cocky enough to tempt Jesus himself. Read Matthew 4:1-11, better yet, I will just print it here for you.  If Satan has the audacity to tempt Jesus who he knows is God, what will he do with you? Or me? Or anyone?

The Temptation of Jesus

 1 Then ^(A) Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. ^(B) 2 After He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, ^(C) He was hungry. 3 Then the tempter approached Him and said, "If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." ^(D)

    4 But He answered, "It is written:

    Man must not live on bread alone

    but on every word that comes

    from the mouth of God. " ^{(E) (F)}

    5 Then the Devil took Him to the holy city, ^[a] had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, ^(G) 6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:

    He will give His angels ^(H) orders concerning you and,

    they will support you with their hands

    so that you will not strike

    your foot against a stone. " ^{(I) (J)}

    7 Jesus told him, "It is also written: Do not test the Lord your God. " ^{(K) (L)}

    8 Again, the Devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 And he said to Him, "I will give You all these things if You will fall down and worship me." ^[b]

    10 Then Jesus told him, "Go away, ^[c] Satan! For it is written:

    Worship the Lord your God,

    and serve only ^(M) Him. " ^(N)

    11 Then the Devil left Him, and immediately angels came and began to serve Him. ^(O)

 This verse or the section of verses does not appear to be talking at all about degrees of glory.

John 17:20-21 is a prayer for believers. Jesus wants them to be unified in their walk and in their testimony.

Here is the entire scripture:
20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."