Read the Psalm "IN CONTEXT" and maintain the SUBJECT MATTER. "gods" with a small 'g' is describing the LAW GIVERS (the Levite/judges, kings/princes etc., those in power) as being 'gods' because they present the laws of God to Israel and hold the full power and authority and are abusing that authority.......this Psalm reveals that GOD is the final judge of these 'gods' because they are men who will die and be judged themselves. This is no way means that men will become GODS as your cult is suggesting.
This is not the context in which Jesus Christ himself used this verse when the quoted it to the Jews who accused him of blasphemy for saying he was the Son of God.
John 10:31-36
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,
I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
Here Jesus counters the Jews charge that he was committing basphemy by claiming he was the Son of God by referring back to Psalms 82:6 saying that He himself (the God of the Old Testament) said, "Ye are gods" showing the Jews that their own law states that their Lord claimed that we are all gods, even children of the Most High. He is saying that if we are all gods, how can you be opposed to me claiming that I am the Son of God. Jesus is telling us in what context he used this phrase as the God of the Old Testament. He is saying that it was used to say that we, as the literal offspring of God the Father, are gods and not judges or bearers of the world of God, etc, etc. The context is used to counter the Jews claim that it was blasphemy to consider yourself as a god. Jesus clearly points out that the God of the Old Testament considers all his children to be gods and thus it is not blasphemy for Jesus to claim to be the Son of God. Here Jesus himself clears up the issue as God himself of the Old Testament as to what this verse really means. We as the literal offspring of God the Father are his children, and as you yourself have pointed out, that makes us all gods in the sense that we are his offspring and children.
Acts 17:28-29
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto
gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Here the Apostle Paul teaches us very clearly also that we are the offspring of God. It's not that there are no other gods which are the offspring of the Father but that there are no other Gods that are the ruler of Heaven and Earth and the only one whom we should worship and consider as our supreme leader. The Apostle Paul also gave us the following:
1 Corinthians 8:4-6
4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Here Paul tells us that we know that idols are nothing in the world. So outright he establishes that he and those to whom he is speaking to know that idols are not gods and are nothing in the world. He then goes on to tell us that there are those who are called gods both in heaven and on earth (just as Jesus has called us gods) and clarifies that there are gods many and lords many that do exist. But then he puts all these other gods that exist in place of how we should treat them in relation to the one we should honor and worship by telling us that to us there is only one God the Father and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him. Thus clarifying that, yes, there are gods many and lords many but there is only one whom we should honor and worship as the Father of our spirits and the creator of all things.
If you are suggesting that men will become 'gods'.........then you must agree there can be more than "1" God....if not, why not? Your own lack of logic brings this doctrinal "paradox" upon yourself. The scriptures make it clear. "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." -- Eph. 4:5-6
We are already gods. That is what Jesus tells us in John 10:34. In the sense that we are the offspring of God the Father, we are gods. Can we progress to become like our Father in heaven? I think there are a few verses in the New Testament that tell us that we can become like our Father in Heaven.
Matthew 5:48
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Why would Jesus command us to be as perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect if it were not possible?
John 17:20-23
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Here Jesus pray that those who believe in him can become one with the Father and Jesus even as they are one that we can be made perfect in one. How is Jesus one with the Father? What does it mean to become one even as Jesus is one with the Father? Combine this with Matthew 5:48 and yes, I believe that our Father in heaven has provide a means whereby we can become one as Jesus is one with the Father and that we can become pefect even as the Father himself is perfect.
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