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There is indeed only one true God, the Father. And there are also little gods. Both things are true and both things are taught by scripture.
The way you explain the 'little gods' evokes some Asian understanding of Chi or Prana. Meaning a 'force' can transmit its life force to others making them a form of the originator. Understand this is not Biblical at all as only God can be God. Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 6 again come to mind.
What I have presented in multitude of Biblical passages is that there is only One True God and His Name is YHWH. No other can be named as God YHWH not even higher or lesser created beings. What I presented with the various OT passages where God says "He is One and His Name is YHWH and worship no others He is a jealous God", is present what is an absolute.
What you are presenting is an inductive approach where you take 'particulars' of certain words and attributes and try to reverse engineer the Nature of God and then present this as the correct understanding. Based on this reverse engineering, or inductive approach you have given divine attributes to entities that are not God, and reduced clear absolutes of the Nature of God clearly declared in the Bible (eg. Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 6).
Start with the absolutes first and then work on understanding the particulars. The absolutes are very clear in the Bible.
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