[fishtank]

I'm sorry, but I really think that too many OT & NT passages contradict this idea.

When you read Revelation, for example, the redeemed saints there are all bowing down to worship the Lamb Jesus, they are not all getting up on a throne to be adored, which they would have the right to do if they really were little gods.

Jesus was being sarcastic, as was the Psalmist.

[Technocrat]

I have to disagree here (somewhat). Mormons do not believe that men shall become Gods immediately after death, or even in some short period of time thereafter. They believe that life and death are two very small and very vital steps in that immeasurably long process, and that all men shall bow down before God at the judgement day and when they are resurrected, just as small children bow down in obedience before their own fathers. God will continue to instruct man, and all that God has will become ours in due time if we continue in obedience to Him.

In Psalms, David seems to be lamenting the fact that humanity, with such divine potential (as literal children of the Most High), could walk in darkness and be so corrupt. He reminds us that even though we can become as out Father, we have a very long path yet to trod, including death. In John, Jesus was responding to the outrage of the Jews when he declared himself as the Son of God. It looks like he is reminding the Jews that they have a spark of divinity inside them, and that they should not shortchange themselves (before he goes on to remind them how much greater He is than they are at this point).