Man's choice is to be in favor of God or against Him. God will not be defamed. Jesus took care of that. All that is left is to let those who don't want salvation - who don't want to maintain godness within themselves - to set themselves up for losing God in the Hell that awaits them. The choice is made by people when they believe and accept the salvation of Jesus.
I agree that we are created in Gods image however if you look into the world and see all the destruction I think we rather behave like the devil rather than God. The "godness" is just restored through his "goodness" when he sent Jesus for us. In him we are a new creation, with God dwelling inside of us and wanting us to do good. That makes us more and more "godlike".