God-likeness And God-nearness

We are all like God. He created us in his image so we love like He does, of course we don't lust like he does. But in any event we are like Him but not necessarily near him. C.S. Lewis gives an example:

... Perhaps an analogy can help. Let us suppose that we are doing a mountain walk to the village which is our home. At mid-day we come to the top of the a cliff where we are, in space, very near it because it is just below us. We could drop a stone into it. But as we are no cragsmen we can't get down. We must go a long way round; five miles, maybe. At many points that detour we shall, statically, be farther from the village than we were when we sat above the cliff. But only statically. In terms of progress we shall be far "nearer" our baths and teas.