The Samaritans were as are most of the current Christians. They loved God, the true God, but did not know Him. There are also those who, in the diverse religions of this world, love God without knowing Him . Ask a Muslim if he knows God. He will be very amazed by your question. Also a Catholic, a Protestant, a Buddhist etc. …
Say: " I know God " will seem to them to be of the pride. Religious people know some "inspired" writings. But from there to dare to claim to know God, there is an unbridgeable ditch of holiness.
They love God but do not know him. They know nothing of its character, its aspiration, its feelings, its plans, its will for themselves, (and nevertheless, The God of The Bible asserts that only those who make His will be saved) in brief they do not know the person of God.
They love God but do not know him. They know nothing its character, its aspiration, its feelings, its plans, its will for themselves, (and nevertheless, The God of The Bible asserts that only those who make Its Will will be saved) In summary they do not know the person of God.
Others know Him to have lived certain things. The Jews of the period of Moses knew certain things of the person of God. But they were afraid of this person and asked God not to speak to them any more, except that through the prophets.
It uncorked in a legalist religion. Certain Christians fell in this fault. Their relation to God passes by an indefiniteness of: " you do not owe, you cannot, it is necessary that " etc.…
It is what Jesus said by asserting: " God looks for admirers in spirit and really.
" To know God, cannot come by our own efforts. It is not by praying, by fasting, by making certain " good works ".
If a person knows God, it is because God revealed himself to her.
HOW TO KNOW HIM?
We can look for Him, because He says Himself:
" No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him " Jean 6/44
" Nobody comes to the Father that by Me. " Then?
What do you have to make to know Him?