I apologize for hitting you with a concept that may feel foreign and even dangerous, but it needs to be said. And regardless that we lack proper definitions for such concepts, it's true.

I'll also remind you that there's nothing sacrilegious about saying this: David, the great Psalmist, was bolder than I, flatly stating, "You are gods." He even used the Hebrew word elohim, the same word used in "God created the heaven and the earth." And Jesus repeated the line without reservation.

Two Reasons Why
#1: All of Earth's creatures have innate abilities; humans have the ability to create abilities.

We can't fly like the birds, but we've created and built flying machines that go orders of magnitude higher and faster. We can't run like a deer, but we have machines that convey us far faster and for far greater distances, safely and reliably. More than that, we are creatures who create willfully, and to this creative ability there seems no fundamental limit.

So, yes, demi-gods.

#2: Aside from a few sociopaths, humans don't openly do evil. Normal humans must be confused and seduced into doing evil. Something in human nature resonates against openly evil actions. So much so that the first and irreplaceable action of our abusers must be to portray their plans as servicing goodness.

To operate successfully in humans, evil must be disguised as good. Among the vast majority of us, evil is unable to win a straight-up comparison with goodness. (For more depth on this, see The Epoch of Confusion.) 

And so again, demi-gods.

How This Can Feel So Wrong

So, if we're really these noble creatures, why does the idea of being demi-gods strike nearly all of us as wrong and dangerous… as something we must put down?

There are several reasons, but we'll start with this: It paints a target on your back. Calling yourself a demi-god is like calling yourself righteous: Say such a thing and people will start coming after you right away, because they don't want to feel less. Envy, after all, is a powerful and dangerous thing.