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# Why Do I Still Want to Be Like God Today?
- URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/why-do-i-still-want-to-be-like-god/
- Published: 2026-07-09T15:23:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T01:05:17.000Z
- Description: You will be like God…” Genesis 3:5
- Author: Airton Humber
- Tags: #en, #de-por-que-eu-ainda-hoje-continuo-querendo-ser-como-deus

For days now one single question has not left my mind.

It is not a question about the world.

It is a question about me.

Why do I still want to be like God today?

When I meditate on the beginning of the Bible, I am always struck to realize that the first temptation was not just disobeying God.

It was wanting to be like God.

> “You will be like God…”Genesis 3:5

I notice that this ancient voice still finds an echo inside me.

I still trust my own intelligence.

My ability.

My plans.

My conclusions.

My goodness.

Then I find a saying of Jesus that seems to answer that ancient voice from Eden directly:

> “No one is good, except one, who is God.”Luke 18:19

Do I really believe this?

The Bible speaks to my heart; so, before the flood:

> “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man had increased on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.”Genesis 6:5

And after the flood, the diagnosis remains:

> “…the inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood…”Genesis 8:21

Paul does not speak from a distance either.

He says:

> “I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.”Romans 7:18

It is not enough to recognize that the world needs God.

I need to recognize that I need God.

That is why Jesus said:

> “Without me you can do nothing.”John 15:5

At some point I realize that the question changes.

It stops being:

How can I be like God?

And it becomes:

Am I allowing God to live in me?

As I meditate on the Scriptures, God keeps revealing to me what he always wanted to do in me.

In Eden, I still try to take God's place.

In the gospel, God comes to meet me to form Christ in me.

> “My children, I am again in the pains of childbirth for you, until Christ is formed in you.”Galatians 4:19

Then Paul reveals the mystery:

> “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”Colossians 1:27

Not that I become God.

But that Christ be formed in me.

True freedom perhaps begins when I stop trying to occupy a place that was never mine.

The problem was never just wanting to do evil.

The problem is wanting to live as if God were not the only one who is truly good.

For many years, I tried to get closer to God.

Today I begin to realize that, from the beginning, God always wanted to get closer to me.

Since Eden, a voice insists on saying:

“You will be like God.”

But through the gospel, the Holy Spirit keeps revealing to me:

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Why do I still want to be like God today?