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Yes, we were created in His likeness, after His image, but we were still a grouping of chemicals and atoms, like dolls are a grouping of plastic molecules and atoms, and robots are a collection of metal molecules and atoms, and like dolls and robots we were subject to perish.

When Jesus wrapped himself in flesh, we became connected to Him in a way previously unheard of. Not just as a mass of chemicals and atoms, likely to perish, but now with the ability to be eternally in the presence of God as the sons of God. Jesus became the bridge, the way to God. Jesus said so himself, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me."

It was the act of wrapping Himself in a flesh body, and paying for the sins of the flesh, that joined us to Him, and that gives those, that accept His sacrifice, hope of forgiveness and eternal life. At least that is the way I see it.

It was the act of wrapping Himself in a flesh body, and paying for the sins of the flesh, that joined us to Him...

I can agree a bit more with your expanded explanation: a Spiritual joining rather than physical.

(I tend to think that this human body is just a placeholder for our spirit; and who KNOWS what we will end up with in Heaven. After all, flesh and blood can't inherit it.......)