There is simply no other creature in the world that harbors the ambition to "be like God;' except for image bearers. Next time you are at the zoo, try approaching an elephant, cheetah or crocodile and whispering to them, "You shall be like God." Not only will they regard you with indifference (or possibly faint stirrings of hunger), you will have a hard time not laughing. For all their grandeur and power, the world's creatures just do not give the faintest evidence of wanting to be something other than a well-fed version of what they already are. (I will admit there is a partial exception—cats. But cats give every sign of already considering themselves equal to God, and thus they are supremely, serenely free of petty human traits like ambition.)