The "likeness" is the spiritual aspect. None of us have seen God and none of us know what He looks like so none of us can say that we are the physical "likeness" of God. However, we do know that God is a spirit and we were created with a spirit.
Our "likeness" to God is our spiritual aspect, not the physical aspect.
Our “likeness” to God is our spiritual aspect, not the physical aspect. . . .
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I realize that is what everybody says, but, the scripture in Genesis makes no such differentiation.
I think that God sets up in the very first scriptures He give us of just what He is and what we are.
My personal feeling is that Since Christ says if you have seen Him then you have seen the Father and that we will all be one with Him and in Him like He is one with the Father. This has to mean that at some point we will be like the Father. Since the angels that stood by while Jesus ascended into heaven told us not to marvel because Jesus would come back in just the same way He left. Not as a Spirit, He made that perfectly clear several times, but as flesh. Christ is Flesh and we will be resurrected in the flesh as Job says and join Christ and be like Him.
There is so much of plain facts that are ignored in the Bible. If we ignore facts then we can make whatever we want be true. I know it is easy to say that seminarians who have studied this are a lot smarter than me and understand what the Bible writers “really” meant and how I don’t understand the “real” meaning.
I personally believe in the God of Abraham who had a Son who meant as much to Him as Issac did to Abraham and that that same God allowed this favorite Son to be sacrificed to pay for my sins because He loves me and my kind too.
We are the offspring of a heavenly being. God is our Father. We will be like our Father when we grow up.
Our likeness to God is in all three aspects, otherwise there would be no need for the resurrection body. Our soul is also being sanctified through faith in Christ by His work through our human spirit.