“It
is one thing to know about God and another to know him. We know about
him when we learn that he is a personal being in whose image man is
created; when we learn that the Son is in the express image of his
Father’s person; when we learn that both the Father and the Son possess
certain specified attributes and powers. But we know them, in the sense
of gaining eternal life, when we enjoy and experience the same things
they do. To know God is to think what he thinks, to feel what he feels,
to have the power he possesses, to comprehend the truths he understands,
and to do what he does. Those who know God become like him, and have
his kind of life, which is eternal life” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. [1965–73], 1:762).
