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It's interesting to note that there are 15 or so verses in Scripture that use the term "God the Father", while there are zero verses that use the terms "God the Son" or "God the Holy Spirit". At one time I was being pressured to affirm the doctrine of the trinity in order to keep my job as an administrator at a Christian school. It came up because it was a new school and I wanted to keep the non-Scriptural trinitarian terminology out of the school's new Statement of Faith. I found that the trinitarians could not explain or talk about their doctrine without using terminology that is not found in Scripture. They let it drop after I explained to the Board that I would easily affirm every passage of Scripture they might bring forward regarding the nature of God, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, but that after I had done that they still wouldn't know if I believed "properly" because what they really wanted me to affirm was terminology that was not found in the Bible, and that I was not willing to affirm their non-Scriptural terminology precisely because it added concepts that are not found in Scripture. Scripture emphasizes only the unity or oneness of God. Why do Christians need to emphasize the "three-ness" of God? The trinity doctrine is one of the major things that prevents religious Jews from accepting Jesus as the Messiah. It seems if Christians were really interested in preaching the gospel "to the Jew first", they would abandon the unScriptural trinitarian terminology and stick to what is actually stated in Scripture.

EGW - Published in 1911: It is not essential for us to be able to define just what the Holy Spirit is. Christ tells us that the Spirit is the Comforter, "the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father." It is plainly declared regarding the Holy Spirit that, in His work of guiding men into all truth, "He shall not speak of Himself." John 15:26; John 16:13. {AA 51.3} The nature of the Holy Spirit is a mystery. Men cannot explain it, because the Lord has not revealed it to them. Men having fanciful views may bring together passages of Scripture and put a human construction on them, but the acceptance of these views will not strengthen the church. Regarding such mysteries, which are too deep for human understanding, silence is golden. {AA 52.1}

I read this on facebook last night. I asked for permission to share it here as I felt that it added to this discussion. It was written by someone named Graeme. I hope you find it useful.

See: http://spectrummagazine.org/article/2016/11/01/spencerville-sabbath-worship-and-unity-discussions-two-different-planets

You can find that talk on Youtube. I just searched David Asscherick and Holy Spirit. The series was well done

I disagree. There are many things about which God has been, and is, angry: social injustice is one. The mocking of His appointed servants is another.

It might also help to define what the Spirit is as opposed to what it is not. In Romans 8:9 seems to speak of the Spirit of God as also the Spirit of Christ.