You hit the nail on the head, but you did it from the sidelines. We were created in the image of God when He breathed the breath of life into us. (Breath means Spirit - His Spirit). Being in the image of God, with His Spirit activating our whole life and everything we are and do, we can choose to fail. And we all have chosen failure to some extent. The evidence is that we die. God is perfect. He can't take failure. So, He sent His ONLY BEGOTTEN Son, Jesus, Who took the punishment we all deserve for our imperfection, thereby restoring perfection. The limits of our greatness are evident in the fact that the universe is extremely much 'higher' than all we can do. Will we ever get there? Or will Jesus return, first.