That’s right.
Knowledge of the fact of God’s existence is separate and different from knowing God personally.
>>Knowledge of the fact of Gods existence is separate and different from knowing God personally.
Exactly. Knowledge of the existence of a higher being or sentient order in the universe is not a knowledge of God. If they were the same thing, then (as the Universalists say) every road really would lead to the mountaintop or all rivers would flow to the sea.