simpleas;12779228:
Gary Sheldrake;12775468:
Good evening Simpleas: I think we see ourselves as being separate from God because that’s how we’re trained to see it. Mindsets that are developed and reinforced over a lifetime are hard to overcome. You make a good reference to Jesus saying that we are Gods. It’s a passage that you won’t hear much from pulpits. The situation was that he was being questioned for telling people he was God. When they asked how he responded to the charge his answer was “Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods”’? Basically, he didn’t deny the charge but reminded them that the scriptures said that we all are that which he claimed to be.
As far as trying to be like Jesus, well that wouldn’t be a bad thing I suppose, but I have never met him so I couldn’t say. I rather think my life is about being like me.
All the best,
Gary
Thanks, just for reference here are the passages :
Psalm 82
God presides in the great assembly;
he renders judgment among the “gods”:
2 “How long will you[a] defend the unjust
and show partiality to the wicked?**
3 Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
4 Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 “I said, ‘You are “gods”;
you are all sons of the Most High.’
7 But you will die like mere mortals;
you will fall like every other ruler.”
8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
for all the nations are your inheritance.
John 10:33-35**
33The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” 34Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS '? 35"If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),…
Jesus makes a reference to himself and man being “Gods” and for that people wanted to kill him. The Psalm was written to the “Judges” who were thought of as Gods I think, so we aren’t GOD, but “Gods”. We are to think of the bible as speaking to us here in the present and not just to the people of that time.
But what about Genesis 3:2-5
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
While we can not become GOD, were Adam and Eve as “Gods” knowing the spritual knowledge of good and evil. The serpent doesn’t say they would become Gods, but God. Trying to become GOD by the temptation of all that, that holds what is God.
If they were not “Gods”, why would Jesus say what he did in John, and quote the Psalm?
I’m trying to think of a time I did here this scripture read at church, it is interesting to learn.
Thanks
Others say animals are just as smart in their own way. 
Catholicism says that humans are smart enough to seek joy eternal. 