Suppose I were to mention someone you know very well and ask you to tell me what he is like. You would probably describe his physical features. You might also tell me what kind of an individual he is, including some of his most prominent characteristics. The description would represent your idea of what he is like. It could help me identify him. But that's still not a complete or accurate representation of the facts of his being.
We learn in Christian Science that to know what man really is, he must be understood as God's image and likeness, or reflection. God is infinite Spirit. Then, if His reflection is Godlike, man must be totally spiritual.
But that's not the way he appears to be. The physical impression is that man is a material being with a mortal personality. We've learned in Science that such a concept is a limited, counterfeit sense of the real man, God's man, because the physical senses can't see beyond a matter-based view.
