Deification or the self

People's concept of God differ from person to person. Whereas some believe that God is one almighty supernatural being who controls every other thing in the universe, some others like Spinoza, have identified God with nature. Some pluralists believe that there is a spark of godness in everything. In fact, Leibniz claims that matter can be reduced further than atom to its ultimate unit which is monad or spirit, and each monad is a windowless world of its own.
However, there are others who believe that the self is an irreducible being in itself, and therefore, a god on its own. History has shown us how some persons claim to be god. You may not blame them for believing so since even the Bible affirms that we are gods the sons of the most high God.
Hence, the question that should be raised is "what is in the self that makes it a god?" or alternatively, "what is the concept of being god, that makes the self a god?"
To be god is to be self-sufficient. Is the self self-sufficient? According to Rene Descartes, a substance is a thing that does not need any other thing but itself to exist. Then he went further to claim: cogito ergo sum - I think therefore, I exist. This implies that the self exists simply by virtue of its thinking of which it does not need any other thing to do. If the self needs nothing but itself to think, then, it needs nothing but itself to exist. And if this be the case, then the self is self-sufficient. If being god is being self-sufficient, then the self-sufficient self is god.