I didn't think so. Try Hebrews 1:3 Jesus Christ is the physical manifestation of the invisible God. Also read Colossians 1:9 - ALL the fulness of the Godhead dwells in Christ bodily. Still think God is three? Read Isaiah 9:6 - who is THE everlasting Father? Answer this - if the Father and Holy Ghost are 2 distinct "persons", which one is the progenitor of the Son? - see Matt. 1:28 (?) sorry, I don't have my Bible in front of me.
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It's an invention of the R.C Church. They then called it a mystery to avoid any discussion or debate on the subject.
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"who is Jesus Christ"... a son of God, Almighty God himself manifest in human form or an incarnate of Lord Krishna?\n\nChristians simply treat Jesus Christ as son of God and not God Almighty himself or a manifestation of God Almighty in human form. They are absolutely clear about this facet of Jesus Christ.\n\nIt is a different matter that in terming Jesus Christ as son of God Christianity negates the existence of Jesus Christ himself. God Almighty is pure energy. It does not have a form. The question of God Almighty having a son does not and cannot arise.\n\n\nGod Almighty never manifests. God Almighty has ever been a Dhrista onlooker. It never interferes with the creation of his. Neither ever! God Almighty also does not have a form. We cannot see God Almighty but his presence can always be felt like the smell of a flower.\n\nThen who was Jesus Christ. As had been made clear above Jesus Christ was not a son of God. Then who was he? Jesus Christ came around 1500 years after Lord Krishna. He also came about 500 years after advent of Mahavira (the last and 24th Tirthankara of Jainism) and about 423 years after Gautama Buddha.\n\nMahavira who came about 500 years before Jesus Christ never claimed himself to be a God. He neither believed in miracles. Once when a couple turned upon him to give life back to their dead child by touching their son he bluntly said, "It cannot be done". His saying made it clear that it is the theory of karma which governs the life and death of the body. As we perform so shall be our future... nothing more or less! More here- http://www.vijaykumar.com/who_is_jesus_christ.html
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in my book of prayers, some of the prayers are dedicated to the Father, others to the Son and others to the Holy Ghost.\nThe Son, Jesus Christ, and also the Holy Ghost descend from the Father. But the Holy Trinity makes a single God, not three.\nIt's like we have a mind, a body and a spirit. Three different elements, but a single person. We don't only cultivate our mind, but eat in order to feed our body, and need emotional contact in order to fulfil our spiritual needs...
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God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit make up three sides of the same God.  They are different leaves of the same clover.  The best way I've had it explained is as a play. Several play actors are sitting around disgussing a script written by someone named Christian.  Many of them say the playwright doesn't exist, but then someone shows up named Christianson, claiming to be Christian writing himself into the play.  Someone comes up with the idea that Christian is active in three levels of the play.  He created it, he wrote himself in, and he is somehow within each of the actors.  Confusing yes, but I believe it is true.
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From a Mormon point of view I would say God the Father and Jesus Christ were definitely there. Since we are all children of God, I believe that we were also in the same pre-mortal realm, although we did not have the same creative authority as they have. However, it would not be outside the bounds of imagination to say that God and Jesus Christ organized intelligent spirits to help with smaller aspects of the creation. Those would be both male AND female spirits, including any angels who had that capacity to serve. Perhaps you have lived in a community where an elementary school was being built to further the education of children of new families who had moved into the area. If you can apply that idea further, perhaps that is what was going on in the pre-earth life - we all had a chance to see what was going on and support God and Jesus Christ. As children of God, we would resemble our Heavenly Parents (in their image), just as children on earth resemble their physical parents. We are part of the race of gods, but we are passing through a mortal stage right now to keep learning about physical and spiritual laws. This is just my opinion, but it is based on a smaller book of scripture called the Pearl of Great Price we use in addition to the Bible and the Book of Mormon (because after all, who wants to limit an author to just one book, and we can't limit God if He wishes to teach His children in other lands).
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It's kind of a new concept, but folks have been trying to reconcile the different 'versions' of religions for years.\n\nGod is not 'one' with the universe. He's the creator, everything else is the created.\n\nGod is 'One', 3 persons, - one god head.\n\nThe only human person to come to earth as God, - is Jesus. Others may not have even made this claim, - but his followers may have exalted, him to that status.\n\nAnd no, God the Father did not appear as these other forms. If another religious icon, aligned correctly with Bible teachings, -then great. I still give credit to the original author, - ie God of the Hebrews.
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First off, Jesus was God manifested in the flesh.\n\nSecond, have you ever heard of something called a Miracle?  \n\nThere was no physical contact when Mary conceived Jesus.  Everyone always wants to try to gutter up Jesus's conception. That's very sad.
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If you look in Genesis chapter one you will see that it was God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. \n\nGod said, "The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface."\nand"26 Then God said, "Let US make people F2 in our image, to be like ourselves." \n\nThen look at John 1\n\n1 In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn't make. 4 Life itself was in him, and this life gives light to everyone. \n\nGod is one person with three personalities. So yes the three personalities that you mentioned were there. Hope this helps!
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"  1) There is one God: Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Galatians 3:20; 1 Timothy 2:5.\n\n2) The Trinity consists of three Persons: Genesis 1:1; 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isaiah 6:8; 48:16; 61:1; Matthew 3:16-17; Matt 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14. In the passages in the Old Testament, a knowledge of Hebrew is helpful. In Genesis 1:1, the plural noun "Elohim" is used. In Genesis 1:26; 3:22; 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8, the plural pronoun for "us" is used. That "Elohim" and "us" refer to more than two is WITHOUT question. In English, you only have two forms, singular and plural. In Hebrew, you have three forms: singular, dual, and plural. Dual is for two ONLY. In Hebrew, the dual form is used for things that come in pairs like eyes, ears, and hands. The word "Elohim" and the pronoun "us" are plural forms - definitely more than two - and must be referring to three or more (Father, Son, Holy Spirit).\n\nIn Isaiah 48:16 and 61:1, the Son is speaking while making reference to the Father and the Holy Spirit. Compare Isaiah 61:1 to Luke 4:14-19 to see that it is the Son speaking.  Matthew 3:16-17 describes the event of Jesus' baptism. Seen in this is God the Holy Spirit descending on God the Son while God the Father proclaims His pleasure in the Son.  Matthew 28:19 and 2 Corinthians 13:14 are examples of 3 distinct persons in the Trinity.\n\n3) The members of the Trinity are distinguished one from another in various passages: In the Old Testament, "LORD" is distinguished from "Lord" (Genesis 19:24; Hosea 1:4). The "LORD" has a "Son" (Psalm 2:7, 12; Proverbs 30:2-4). Spirit is distinguished from the "LORD" (Numbers 27:18) and from "God" (Psalm 51:10-12). God the Son is distinguished from God the Father (Psalm 45:6-7; Hebrews 1:8-9). In the New Testament, John 14:16-17 is where Jesus speaks to the Father about sending a Helper, the Holy Spirit. This shows that Jesus did not consider Himself to be the Father or the Holy Spirit. Consider also all of the other times in the Gospels where Jesus speaks to the Father. Was He speaking to Himself? No. He spoke to another person in the Trinity - the Father.\n\n4) Each member of the Trinity is God: The Father is God: John 6:27; Romans 1:7; 1 Peter 1:2. The Son is God: John 1:1, 14; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20. The Holy Spirit is God: Acts 5:3-4; 1 Corinthians 3:16 (The One who indwells is the Holy Spirit - Romans 8:9; John 14:16-17; Acts 2:1-4).\n\n5) The subordination within the Trinity: Scripture shows that the Holy Spirit is subordinate to the Father and the Son, and the Son is subordinate to the Father. This is an internal relationship, and does not deny the deity of any person of the Trinity. This is simply an area which our finite minds cannot understand concerning the infinite God. Concerning the Son see: Luke 22:42; John 5:36; John 20:21; 1 John 4:14. Concerning the Holy Spirit see: John 14:16; 14:26; 15:26; 16:7 and especially John 16:13-14.\n\n6) The tasks of the individual members of the Trinity: The Father is the ultimate source or cause of: 1) the universe (1 Corinthians 8:6; Revelation 4:11); 2) divine revelation (Revelation 1:1); 3) salvation (John 3:16-17); and 4) Jesus' human works (John 5:17; 14:10). The Father INITIATES all of these things.\n\nThe Son is the agent through whom the Father does the following works: 1) the creation and maintenance of the universe (1 Corinthians 8:6; John 1:3; Colossians 1:16-17); 2) divine revelation (John 1:1; Matthew 11:27; John 16:12-15; Revelation 1:1); and 3) salvation (2 Corinthians 5:19; Matthew 1:21; John 4:42). The Father does all these things through the Son, who functions as His agent.\n\nThe Holy Spirit is the means by whom the Father does the following works: 1) creation and maintenance of the universe (Genesis 1:2; Job 26:13; Psalm 104:30); 2) divine revelation (John 16:12-15; Ephesians 3:5; 2
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Is Jesus Christ actually God?\n\nJohn 17:3, RS: “[Jesus prayed to his Father:] This is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God [“who alone art truly God,” NE], and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” (Notice that Jesus referred not to himself but to his Father in heaven as “the only true God.”)\n\nJohn 20:17, RS: “Jesus said to her [Mary Magdalene], ‘Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (So to the resurrected Jesus, the Father was God, just as the Father was God to Mary Magdalene. Interestingly, not once in Scripture do we find the Father addressing the Son as “my God.”)\n\nDoes John 1:1 prove that Jesus is God?\n\nJohn 1:1, RS: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God [also KJ, JB, Dy, Kx, NAB].” NE reads “what God was, the Word was.” Mo says “the Logos was divine.” AT and Sd tell us “the Word was divine.” The interlinear rendering of ED is “a god was the Word.” NW reads “the Word was a god”; NTIV uses the same wording.\n\nWhat is it that these translators are seeing in the Greek text that moves some of them to refrain from saying “the Word was God”? The definite article (the) appears before the first occurrence of the·os´ (God) but not before the second. The articular (when the article appears) construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous (without the article) predicate noun before the verb (as the sentence is constructed in Greek) points to a quality about someone. So the text is not saying that the Word (Jesus) was the same as the God with whom he was but, rather, that the Word was godlike, divine, a god. (See 1984 Reference edition of NW, p. 1579.)\n\nWhat did the apostle John mean when he wrote John 1:1? Did he mean that Jesus is himself God or perhaps that Jesus is one God with the Father? In the same chapter, verse 18, John wrote: “No one [“no man,” KJ, Dy] has ever seen God; the only Son [“the only-begotten god,” NW], who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.” (RS) Had any human seen Jesus Christ, the Son? Of course! So, then, was John saying that Jesus was God? Obviously not. Toward the end of his Gospel, John summarized matters, saying: “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, [not God, but] the Son of God.”—John 20:31, RS.\n\nDoes Thomas’ exclamation at John 20:28 prove that Jesus is truly God?\n\nJohn 20:28 (RS) reads: “Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’”\n\nThere is no objection to referring to Jesus as “God,” if this is what Thomas had in mind. Such would be in harmony with Jesus’ own quotation from the Psalms in which powerful men, judges, were addressed as “gods.” (John 10:34, 35, RS; Ps. 82:1-6) Of course, Christ occupies a position far higher than such men. Because of the uniqueness of his position in relation to Jehovah, at John 1:18 (NW) Jesus is referred to as “the only-begotten god.” (See also Ro, By.) Isaiah 9:6 (RS) also prophetically describes Jesus as “Mighty God,” but not as the Almighty God. All of this is in harmony with Jesus’ being described as “a god,” or “divine,” at John 1:1 (NW, AT).\n\nThe context helps us to draw the right conclusion from this. Shortly before Jesus’ death, Thomas had heard Jesus’ prayer in which he addressed his Father as “the only true God.” (John 17:3, RS) After Jesus’ resurrection Jesus had sent a message to his apostles, including Thomas, in which he had said: “I am ascending . . . to my God and your God.” (John 20:17, RS) After recording what Thomas said when he actually saw and touched the resurrected Christ, the apostle John stated: “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.” (Jo
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Jesus was not only "divine" but was ans is Deity Incarnate.\n\nMany have claimed that they are Christ, or that they are "god".\n\nJesus died (delivered for our offences) and was raised the third day (for our justification) and He, though dead, now is Alive forevermore.\n\nAfter His Resurrection, "he showed himself alive by many infallible proofs".\n\nWhile He as on earth, as the Bible records, "and many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, the which are not written in this book, but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God ... and that by believing you may have Life in His name."
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God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three separate. You are speaking of the Trinity which is not Biblical. God is greater than Jesus. Jesus knew this, and that's why he said it.  The only way that they are one and the same is through union. A husband a wife become one flesh when they are married, but that doesn't mean that they are one person. It means they are in union with one another.
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There is no such thing as the Trinity, This is largest lie that Satan uses to keep people from knowing who the True God is, if he can do this, he's got you.\n\n“Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matthew 24:36) How do these words confirm that Jesus is not Almighty God?\n\nJesus says that the Father knows more than the Son does. If Jesus were part of Almighty God, however, he would know the same facts as his Father. So, then, the Son and the Father cannot be equal. Yet, some will say: ‘Jesus had two natures. Here he speaks as a man.’ But even if that were so, what about the holy spirit? If it is part of the same God as the Father, why does Jesus not say that it knows what the Father knows?\n\n1st of all Jesus said: He pointed to God as the Source of his life, saying, “I live because of the Father.” According to the context, this meant that his life resulted from or was caused by his Father, even as the gaining of life by dying men would result from their faith in Jesus’ ransom sacrifice. Joh 6:56, 57.\n\nJesus’ being called the “only-begotten Son” (Joh 1:14; 3:16, 18) does not mean that the other spirit creatures produced were not God’s sons, for they are called sons as well. (Ge 6:2, 4; Job 1:6) However, by virtue of his being the sole direct creation of his Father, the firstborn Son was unique, different from all others of God’s sons, all of whom were created or begotten by Jehovah through that firstborn Son. So “the Word” was Jehovah’s “only-begotten Son” in a particular sense,\n\nJesus is also “Mighty God” and “Eternal Father.” This does not mean that he usurps the authority and position of Jehovah, who is “God our Father.” (2 Corinthians 1:2) “He [Jesus] . . . gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God.” (Philippians 2:6) He is called Mighty God, not Almighty God. Jesus never thought of himself as God Almighty, for he spoke of his Father as “the only true God,” that is, the only God who should be worshiped. (John 17:3;\n\n\nRev. 1:1; 3:14, RS: “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, why did God have to give the revelation to Jesus, if he is God? . \n\nDoes the Bible teach that none of those who are said to be included in the Trinity is greater or less than another, that all are equal, that all are almighty? Mark 13:32, RS: “Of that day or that hour no ones knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Of course, that would not be the case if Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were coequal, comprising one Godhead. And if, as some suggest, the Son was limited by his human nature from knowing, the question remains, Why did the Holy Spirit not know?)\n\nJohn 14:28, RS: “[Jesus said:] If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.”\n\n1 Cor. 11:3, RS: “I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.” (Clearly, then, Christ is not God, and God is of superior rank to Christ. It should be noted that this was written about 55 C.E., some 22 years after Jesus returned to heaven. \n\nA person who is really seeking to know the truth about God is not going to search the Bible hoping to find a text that he can construe as fitting what he already believes. He wants to know what God’s Word itself says. He may find some texts that he feels can be read in more than one way, but when these are compared with other Biblical statements on the same subject their meaning will become clear. It should be noted at the outset that most of the texts used as “proof” of the Trinity actually mention only two persons, not three; so even if the Trinitarian explanation of the texts were correct, these would not prove that the Bible teaches the Trinity.
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This is a difficult question, and I'm not sure I can answer it all satisfactorily, but I think I can help.  \n\nWith the first part, 'no other gods,' Christians don't believe that Jesus is another god, but rather the same one.  Two different facets of the same God (with the Holy Spirit being the third).  What's more, you know that in Genesis, God speaks in the plural 'let's go do this.'  Also, the Hebrew word for God - elohim - is also plural.\n\nSecond, it is true that Jesus never called himself 'God the Son.'  The way he speaks of himself as 'the son of God,' however, is unique.  He says, "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him" (Luke 10:22).  Also, he is called by the Greek word for "one and only son", "mono-genes", means literally, "one in kind, unique."  This seems to contradict the view that we are all sons and daughters of God on the same level as Jesus.  Finally, in John 15:15, Jesus says "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father."  God is the only person to whom we (humanity in general) could ever reasonably be called slaves.  How could we have been 'slaves' to Christ is he weren't also God?\n\nOne more word on the Trinity: God sent "his spirit" down onto "his son."  Additionally, in Matthew 28:18-20 it's said, "Then Jesus approached and said to them, 'All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.  And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.'"\n\nIn the early Church, the Jews celebrated the Sabbath on Saturday, and then Christ's resurrection on Sunday.  The gentiles who entered the Church, however, didn't celebrate the Sabbath, but only the resurrection.  Eventually, the Church accumulated more gentiles, and observation of the Sabbath was fell out, leaving only the celebration of Christ's resurrection.\n\nIn a sense, Paul is claiming to speak for Jesus, but this is warrented.  He is relaying Christ's message, or the spirit of it, to us.  First, recall that although Jesus appeared a second time for Thomas, on that occasion he said "But blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."  Now if they have not seen, how can they believe?  How can they even know about the resurrection?  Obviously, someone has to tell them, someone has to speak for Christ.  Someone like Paul, or any of the apostles.  What is more, that is the mission Jesus gave them.  He sent them out as missionaries to go to the Jews and then to the gentiles.  They were, in essence, his ambassadors to the world.  They spoke for him because he wanted them to; that was their task.  Now, to reconcile the two paths to heaven that you mentioned.  If you truly believe that Jesus is lord and that he rose from death and that he died as sacrifice for our sins as Paul says, then how could we not "love God, love our neighbor, help the poor?"  If we say we believe and yet don't try to do these things, then despite what we may say, we don't truly believe.  The two go hand in hand.
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In Jesus dwells ALL the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col.2:9 below)  - \n\noGod the Father\noThe Holy Spirit of God the Father\noThe Word of God the Father\n\nThe only begotten son of God the Father (Jn.1:14 below), Jesus (the Word - Jn.1:1, Jn.1:14 below), His beloved Son (Matt.3:17 below), was conceived of the Holy Ghost (Matt.1:20 below). \n\nIt is God the Father who conceived in Mary (blessed among women) His very Word through His very Holy Spirit (Matt.1:20 below).\n\n\nCol.2:9  For in him dwelleth ALL the fulness of the Godhead bodily.\n\nJn.1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, (Matt.1:20, Matt.3:17 below)) full of grace and truth.\n\nJn.1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (Re.1:6, Lk.1:47 below).\n\nRe.1:6And hath made us kings and priests unto God AND his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nLk.1:47And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour (Jn.1:14, Jn.1:1, Re.1:6 above).\n\nLk.1:68 Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people (Re.1:6 above),\n\nMatt.3:17  And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son (Matt.1:20 below), in whom I am well pleased.\n\nMatt.1:20  But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost (Jn.1:14, Matt.3:17 above).\n\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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Excellent question.  But unfortunately, I have yet to hear a good answer.  God the Almighty Creator doesn't even blink for a second, nonetheless die.  If this were true and God died on the cross, then ALL existance would cease.\n\nHere's what makes the trinity questionable:  If you have a creature (i.e. a created being), and a third of that creature dies while the other two-thirds are still alive, then that creature hasn't really died.  All parts would have to die for the creature to be considered dead.  \n\nSo if this applies to a created being, how can it not apply to the Creator?  If a third of God dies, but the other two-thirds are still alive, then that third didn't really die; especially when he's resurrected within a number of hours.\n\nThe fact is that death in itself is a creation.  Therefore the dimension of death cannot be applied to an infinite entity which exists outside the realm of all creation.  i.e. No creator, or any part of a creator, dies.\n\nWhat does that mean anyways?  What does it mean that a third of God has died???  This can only indicate that the trinity is not true; it's merely a pagan practice that has filtered down to blemish the noble message of Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him).  (see link below)\n\nFor those who say angels, well who was sustaining the angels in God's absence?  Did you really hear yourself say that??
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:}\nJohn 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.\n\nthe asker seems disappointed that G-d is greater than he can understand.\n\nthere are dumber lesser beast which can be understood even by the asker\n\nTo conclude that G-d doesn't exist because a mortal cant understand him is absurd\n\nor that his nature cannot be what he taught it to be because this mortal cannot explain it.\n\n\nHow very human of us.