Maybe both versions are true, one can consider it. But you have to think outside the box.
We are all born in the image and likeness of God, what does that mean exactly?
Maybe we are God, and we are not God.
Maybe Jesus was born of God, and because he never sinned, he stayed of God, and therefore was God, while his body/flesh was not God.
If you paint me blue, and I stay painted blue forever, then you can say that I am blue, even though I am not blue, but I am blue. Logic doesn't have the answers, illogical intelligence has the answers.
I drive a car, therefore I am a car driver. But when I am not driving a car, I am still a car driver, even though I am not driving a car.
Maybe God is in our make up. And to say that, I am God, is not necessarily saying I am THE God, but I am a part of God, I am part God. Or maybe God is not in our make up in the slightest, not one single part of us, and then one could say I am not God, because I am not a part of God, I am not partly God.
But it is our free will which defines this. If we say that we are not God, then what our ego does without us knowing, is it defines Self as God. And people may come with their opinions and thoughts, not discerning where it came from; God or themselves.
I personally believe God is in our make up, otherwise we would be incapable of love. God is Love. So if you have pushed love out of your make up of self, then you have pushed God out of your life, no matter how righteous you believe your self to be (self-belief).