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Christ is not saying there that he is some creature metaphorically called a god, he is claiming to be THE God, the Jews know this, and Christ knows that they know this. If he quotes the 81st Psalm for the purpose that you say he does, then he is deliberately missing the point. It is not therefore a semantic argument about what can be called a god or a son of god, in fact the Holy Ghost through the Psalmist is not referring to a merely nominal divinity either, but real and effective sanctification and deification, in agreement with St. John's Gospel: dedit eis potestatem filio Dei fieri, his qui credunt in nomine ejus: qui non ex sanguinibus, neque ex voluntate carnis, neque ex voluntate viri, sed ex Deo nati sunt. He is pointing out that by denying the Incarnation, the Jews are denying the law and the prophets. The angels and saints are true partakers of the one divinity. It would remain to explain why pagan idols should not enjoy the same status, but this is worked out, e.g., in De Civitate Dei, VIII-X, and has almost everything to do with the type of rite and action considered pleasing to the deity, as well as whether the honor given to that deity constitutes dulia or latria.