Until now, everything we have said about the ideal has been couched in the individual’s present understanding. However, God is not limited to what you understand about him. He exists and is how he is independent of anyone’s beliefs about him.
God is at least as good as the amalgamation of the best you can imagine a person being across all situations.
Anyone’s idea of God will necessarily be less than the real thing, because their understanding of him will be less than his understanding of himself until and unless they know everything he does. This does not invalidate any point made so far. In fact, it is an important feature of this line of reasoning, not a flaw.
The target—your idea of God—is not fixed. It is capable of improving in accuracy over time, like a rifle scope can be zeroed through adjustment after noticing where the shots land.
We do not have to speculate about the process of increasing our understanding of God.
The Lord said he was both the path and its fulfillment:
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
By learning about and becoming like the Son, we learn about and become like the Father. We will return to this later.