As far as your references, with the possible exception of John 10:34-35, I don't believe any of them support us being on the same par as God the Father. I was thinking about this as I was mowing the grass. According to the Orthodox understanding of the fillique of the Nicene Creed, there is God the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from God the Son, who proceeds from God the Father. If I'm not mistaken the Orthodox sees a very pronounce organizational structure in the Godhead. (Personally I agree with this interpretation btw.) Now, which level of the Godhead would you say we are to become like.
“According to the Orthodox understanding of the fillique of the Nicene Creed, there is God the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from God the Son, who proceeds from God the Father.”
Nope. The Creed as established by the Council Fathers says that the HS proceeds from the Father; most definitely NOT from the Son though perhaps one can say “through” the Son. In Orthodoxy there is no “filioque”. That is a later Roman innovation imposed on The Church there by the Franks.
“Immortality is a gift of God whether we want it or not-just like all God’s gifts.”
Then in Calvinist theology, the soul is indeed immortal...whether we or the soul wants it to be or not? Do you mean that God imposes immortality on the soul or that the soul is immortal by nature? That’s not at all what The Church taught, though various heretical sects based in Platonism did. Like I have said before, we believe very different things, more different than I would have suspected a few years ago.
That is not so, HD. The Orthodox doctrine is that the Son is not the source (cause) of the Spirit; also the Son is begotten; He does not "proceed" (the Greek word is mora akin to "well") from the Father. Big difference. The confusion is in the Latin word procedere which does not imply an origin. A perfect example how a bad translation can lead to catastrophic theological errors!
The monarchy of the Father is absolute: He is the only one who is neither begotten nor proceeds from anything; the only one Who IS without a cause.
But before you cry "Mormons" again, remember that the Son is eternally (without beginning) begotten and the Spirit (as regards His existence) eternally proceeds from the Father. The Father is the cause of everything and all, including the divinity.