>>Knowledge of the fact of God’s 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.
Knowing the fact of God’s existence is knowledge of God.
Knowing God personally is knowledge of God.
Two different kinds of knowledge regarding the same person.