“I respectfully disagree. Christ’s blood doesn’t merely “cover over” the stink of sin. Rather, it allows the Holy Spirit to re-make us into God’s “image and likeness” as Adam was before the Fall. “Image” means form, “likeness” means substance. We have a new substance with the Holy Spirit. We re-gain the attributes of God. He “makes us to shine like the sun.” We truly are “new creatures” in HIm.
Christ’s sacrifice not only covered over the cost of Original Sin, but actually makes it possible for us to really be transformed into the holy ones of God.”
You’re seriously arguing that Adam was omnipresent and God-like in the garden! You even have him shining like the sun! God does not have a body that we are a projection of. We are not the image of His form, because a Spirit has no bones or flesh that can give it form. To be made in the likeness and image of God can only apply to the soul, in its nature and disposition, though certainly not exact, otherwise it would be impossible for us to sin. We were innocent, though we still fell as any of the angels did through willful disobedience. None of this can possibly imply that mankind, once exalted, will become Little Gods.
Isa_43:10 ... before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
We are not equal to God as He is infinite. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t share in His substance.