On creation: from 'Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World' by Robin Fox

God had taken clay and fashioned man: then he "breathed into his face the breath of life and man became a living soul..." By his very nature, each man possessed this personal puff of divinity. It resided in him and linked him potentially to God. This element had not been forgotten by its Jewish heirs. St. Paul's contemporary the Alexandrian Philo still maintained a lively sense of it in his many books on Scripture. A breath of divine Spirit, he believed, lived in all men from birth as their higher reason. It was allied to their inner conscience, the presence of which "accused" and "tested" them and made them aware of their own misdeeds.

I particularly like this line: "By his very nature, each man possessed this personal puff of divinity. It resided in him and linked him potentially to God."

It speaks of an intimacy of man and God, demonstrated then betrayed (but not obliterated) in Genesis 3:8.