In God's Own Image

Though according to Genesis 1:27, "God created man in his own image", the only reference to this kinship in subsequent passages seems to be at Gen. 3:22, with the common feature the knowledge of good and evil, that Adam has just attained.  In contrast, there is, notably, no obvious evidence that God is likewise constituted by the "dust of the ground", as Gen. 2:7 describes Adam.  Now, the God-human heterogeneity is more clearly expressed by the standard theological representation of it as incorporeal-corporeal.  So, the one prominent system that seems most faithful to the passage at 1:27 is, ironically, that associated with the pioneering of a metaphorical interpretation of these texts, namely Spinozism, in which humans are defined as 'modifications' of God's attributes.  Spinoza thereby solves a fundamental problem facing orthodoxy--explaining how an incorporeal deity can create corporeal existence, let alone how the latter can be "in the image" of the former.