Many Early Christian Fathes interpreted Psalms 82:6 to mean the deification of man.
Deification of man - FAIRMormon
I said " you are gods, all of you sons of the most high.’ let Eunomius hear this, let
Arius, who say that the son of God is son in the same way we are. That we are gods is not so by
nature, but by grace. "but to as many as receive Him he gave power to becoming sons of God" I
made man for that purpose, that from men they may become gods. We are called gods and
sons!...(Christ said) "all of you sons of the Most High," it is not possible to be the son of the
Most High, unless He Himself is the Most High. I said that all of you would be exalted as I am
exalted. (Jerome (340 A.D.-420 A.D.) the
homilies of Saint Jerome pg. 106-107)
Mark Nispel has recently studied the extensive use of Psalm 82.6 (ye are gods) in early Christological contexts, and has suggested that this may be the origin of the idea of deification. The evidence of the Latin authors, who know of becoming god only in the context of the Christological argument of Psalm 82 indicates that the theology of Christian deification, while drawing upon Hellenistic ideas, arose chiefly out of the exegetical debate over Psalm 82.6 (Mark D. Nispel, Christian Deification and the Early Testimonia, Vigiliae Christianae 53 (1999): 302).
Arthur Darby Nock writes that the concept of deification admitted of a wide range of variations and was often expressed with a boldness which surprises moderns who have been brought up to think of the category of >divinity as infinitely remote. It had its roots in Gen. 1.26 and Psalm > 82.6 (A. D. Nock, review article, Journal of Religion 31 (1951): 214-6).