WARNING: JUST BECAUSE YOU MIGHT BE BETTER INFORMED IN RESPECT TO WHO GOD IS DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU KNOW HIM ANY BETTER. There’s a difference between knowing about someone and knowing that person personally.
Knowing God or having a relationship with God is what we were created for- consider why God created Adam and Eve and how he walked in the garden with them.
The person who "knows" God has a relationship with Him. We understand that from our human relationships. You and I claim to know only those who we have met and related to. We don’t claim to know a person who we have merely read about. It is the same with God. If all you have is read or heard about God that doesn’t mean you know him. You have to meet him and relate to God to say you know him.
Jesus is the way to knowing God/ having a relationship with God. That’s why he came to earth: that we might have peace with God. Sin separated us.. In the book of John, Jesus tells his disciples that they know the Father because they know him. Meaning: a relationship with Jesus means a person has a relationship with God the Father because as Jesus attests they are one. "If you have seen me, you seen the Father," (John 14)
In John 17:3 Jesus in his prayer says "And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." Did you see that? Don’t miss that! Jesus said that knowing God was eternal life! You want the key to eternal life? Find a way to know God you Creator, Lord, and Master. Find a way to know him as a merciful, caring, gracious, and loving God.
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