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You are correct. But the present doctrine of the Trinity was formulated at the councils of Nicaea, Constantinople and Chalcedon. D. Jeffrey Bingham, 2002, History of the Church, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois p131.
Also St. Augustine is the founder of the modern theology of the Trinity and all other writers since that time have followed his reasoning on this subject.
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The transition to the Latin theology of the Trinity was the work of St. Augustine. Western theologians have never departed from the main lines which he laid down (The Catholic Encyclopedia: The Blessed Trinity)
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Augustine’s book On the Trinity “eventually became part of the Trinitarian dogma of the medieval Catholic Church.” (The Trinity p 154)
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"Our opponents sometimes claim that no belief should be held dogmatically which is not explicitly stated in Scripture...But the Protestant churches have themselves accepted such dogmas as the Trinity for which there is no such precise authority in the Gospels." Life Magazine Catholic Church's New Dogma: The Assumption of Mary Oct. 30, 1950 p51.
So, how did this doctrine come in to the SDA Church?
According to the Book The Trinity,
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In 1930, responding to a request from the African Division for "a statement of what Adventists believe" that would "help government officials and others to a better understanding of our work," the General Conference Committee appointed a subcommittee to prepare a statement of Adventist beliefs. Wilcox, as the leading writer among them, drafted a 22-point statement subsequently published in the SDA Yearbook of 1931....the drafters of the statement sought "no formal approval" for it. Fifteen years later, when the statement had gained general acceptance, the General Conference session of 1946 made it official, voting that "no revision of this Statement of Fundamental Beliefs, as it now appears in the [Church] Manual, shall be made at any time except at a General Conference session" ("Fifteenth Meetinting," Review and Herald, June 14, 1946, p. 197). The Trinity p. 199,200
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