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Remember the story of many people trying to define the elephant, one saw the trunk, one saw the leg, one saw the tail, one saw the ear. Each person claimed that the part they were looking at was the whole elephant. One said the elephant was long with an open end, one said the elephant was big and round and flat, etc. Who was right? They were all right because each part they described was part of the whole elephant.

I define God as I perceive him, but I am only describing part of him. You may perceive a different aspect of God depending on your perception of him, your perception is based on the aspects of God you define and know. We will never completely know every aspect of God, portions like with the elephant.

My heart and soul are in this post. Disagree or criticize, I will be happy because that means you read my work. Opinions are more than welcomed, I don't think I'm wrong.

Hello imforone,

Perhaps this will help.

When a child is born, the child has no knowledge nor understanding of who or what it is; what anything is in it's environment; what "parents" are. The child does not "know" the parents.

The child cries out when hungry or thirsty and is given food or drink but has no understanding of this matter.

Only in time, time being spent with a parent, does the child begin so recognize a parent. It is a long time later before the child begins to see who and what a parent is and what the relationship is between the child and the parent. Even as the child grows. the child learns more about it's parents as the parents reveal more to the child because of the child's maturity.

Remember the joke; The child goes to college and is amazed at how much smarter the parents became while the child was gone.

Only a mature child "knows" it's parents and then not completely unless the parent has totally revealed the entirety of what is in the mind of the parent to the child.

So it is with God. As a spiritual infant, all a person knows is they call out to God and are comforted. When they hunger or thirst for knowledge nd understanding, it is revealed to them. In time, as they continue this "walk" with God, they learn more and more about God as God reveals His mind. Only when being the mature Son of God, is God known, but then not completely for a person learns a lot more about God when passing on from the physical.