Created to be like God

"You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
-Ephesians 4:20-24

I think that last line is interesting. "...created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." It seems like a lot of atheists/humanists/postmodernists/etc. all find joy in making themselves gods. I'm no expert, and so I could completely be wrong here, but it seems like that is what they do. They intellectually kill God so that emotionally they can lift themselves up to that elevated status. They glorify man for all his wonders, and give him credit even though man would be dust without God.

And so I think it is interesting that we were created "to be like God" but wait, it doesn't stop here. We were created to be like God "in true righteousness and holiness." Ephesians will explain in a little more detail what that means later on. Hopefully this will be beneficial to think about today. Hopefully we press on toward some idea of righteousness and holiness, knowing that this was God's intended purpose for us so that we could be on the same level of awesomeness as God. (Although still beneath God, because he is infinitely more awesome than we are.)

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
-Genesis 1:27