Source. Times of Israel
Technically the Gemara is addressing a stylistic challenge in the text. For every other act of creation in Genesis 1, the Torah tells us, “God said, ‘Let there be’ … And there was…” In the case of the creation of humankind alone, there is a preface, a prelude. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness …” Who is the “us”? And why the preamble?
In their seemingly innocent and childlike — actually subtle and profound — way, the sages answered both questions by saying that with (to quote Hamlet) an enterprise of this pith and moment, God consulted with the angels. They were the “us.”
But now the question becomes very deep indeed. For, in creating humans, God brought into existence the one life form with the sole exception of Himself, capable of freedom and choice. That is what the phrase means when it says, “Let us make mankind in our image after our likeness.” For the salient fact is that God has no image. To make an image of God is the archetypal act of idolatry.
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For centuries, theologians and philosophers have been looking at religion upside down.
Alas you could have mentioned the Prophets also. Theologians and Philosophers will never be able to give you a satisfactory answer about God. The prophets and chosen one can. True followers with real trust in God can also feel His living presence. Some one correctly said, it is blessing to be a human being relative to an angle but it requires hard work to be a true human being.