God came into the world as a human, showing us the reality of God in a new way as Father, Son and Spirit.  Now, God encounters us personally through Jesus and by his Spirit, enabling us to know him in this new way. We now know him as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father in union with Jesus, by the Spirit.  

We just did not see God this way before.  We always had vague notions of God. But as Jesus, the beloved Son, stands before us in the Spirit, we find ourselves standing before him and seeing in him the unveiling of God as Father, Son and Spirit. The new way of seeing God has been made new to us personally within our own hearts and minds. We see the new unveiling of God with new eyes, the eyes of our new hearts.  It is not going too far to speak of a seismic reconstruction in the way we see God and believe in him. It is altogether new!

This new way of knowing God in the fullness of his Triune love and light and life conflicts with our generally accepted beliefs. It brings new ways of seeing and believing. God himself encounters us in his Son by the Spirit. In this encounter, we see God as we have never seen him before. We do not add to what we believed before so that we now have an upgrade in our knowledge of God. God brings new ways of seeing, new ways of believing. Our knowing of God is altogether new. And we only break through into this new way of knowing of God as he encounters us through Jesus by his Spirit.