This is a question that doesnt get defined in Genesis. It says let us make man in our image and likeness, but then it define how. So it has become a philosophical question to the believer as to wha that means.
When I first started pondering this I thought, huh. God must be a Bi-Ped with two arms and two legs. But over time I hear it tossed around some and have to believe that, it's more than that. Or maybe not even that, who knows? But what else could it be?
Ding! And I got it. I think, lol. It's not that He is a Pi-Ped with two arms & legs but of a deeper nature. One nature where we are...in Christ. And what did He say? emulate me, do as I do. Take on my nature, my character and define yourselves thusly. We shall be able to do all that Christ ever did on earth and more, it says so in scripture.
SO I think being created in His image and likeness means to take on the character of Jesus. Then that which we cant see, (the spiritual) is that we begin to look like Christ. And let your light so shine!
Maybe I'm right and maybe I'm not?
I suggest that you look to the Bible, especially Paul's letters, for the support for your view, which is basically accurate:
1Co_15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the
image of the man of heaven.
2Co_3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2Co_4:4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Col_1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Col_3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
You are right!
