Ultimately only God can tell us who we are, so if you imagine a video game and different avatars are born into different families and nations, they would perceive themselves to be those families or nations, but it takes the creator to come down and tell the avatars who we truly are – and in essence, we and the creator are one and the same, though in physical dimensions and in the time and space dimensions (location, family etc.) we were born into, we are who we thought we were