God created humanity in His own image— not in bodily form, but in spiritual form

God did not create humans to “look like” God in a physical sense, as though God resembled a primate.

What God created was a spiritual life-form. Our original life was spiritual, always with God, and like Him in its qualities: infinite, effortless, selfless, eternal, and at peace.
But once Adam and Eve left Eden, they received physical bodies. From that point on, human life became divided into two layers:

the bodily life—temporary, fragile, and transient; and
The spiritual life—the true, eternal life God creates.

Human birth after Eden reverses the original order. We now come into existence through physical reproduction, and only at birth does God “breathe” into us the spirit—the Holy Spirit.

This Spirit is God’s own likeness projected into the physical world, the point of connection between the Creator and the creature.

Every form of goodness, creativity, wisdom, and our capacity to understand reality—it all comes from the Holy Spirit. So if we wish to know “what God is like,” we look toward the nature of the Spirit within us.

Yet once humans arrive in this world, the physical body must be maintained and reproduced. The self-concept and the judging mind grow. Social structures, relationships, personal unconscious patterns, and the collective unconscious all accumulate.

And for most people, for most of their lives, these layers cover and obscure the Holy Spirit within.