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It's not that we become "gods". We don't become God the father. We don't become Christ, the son. That's blasphemy. But we DO become part of God's royal ruling family and joint heirs of EVERYTHING with our older brother Christ.
Tsk, tsk doug, you don't even know the deeper teachings of your group. In a little booklet titled "What Is Your Destiny?" on page 15 it states "But we must be careful here. Human beings are not literally gods—not yet, at any rate. . . . Another aspect of this is that man has the ultimate potential of becoming the same kind of beings the Father and Christ now are.

Thank you for mentioning the booklet What Is Your Destiny

It makes a clear, scriptural case that God is family, and that we, as his children, are entitled to inherit all things. This shouldn't be a surprise...God modeled earthly things after heavenly things. Earthly families resemble, or should resemble, the heavenly family.

1Jn 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1Jn 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Why do you disagree with John?

Rom 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Rom 8:17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
Rom 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;
Rom 8:21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Dogs beget dogs, humans beget humans, spirit begets spirit. God is spirit.

Why do you disagree with John?

No, just your misinterpretation of the passage. homoios is not ontologically the same as being 'God'.

t makes a clear, scriptural case that God is family, and that we, as his children, are entitled to inherit all things. This shouldn't be a surprise...God modeled earthly things after heavenly things. Earthly families resemble, or should resemble, the heavenly family.

Well then since you are endorsing "What is you destiny", you accept polytheism.

Dogs beget dogs, humans beget humans, spirit begets spirit. God is spirit.

How mormonesque again, do you believe that you were a spirit child too - is there a god-mother?
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

We are children by adoption - not by procreation. We are not god-material. A clay bowl is not ontologically equivalent to the Creator.