Hebrews 2:11 - If we are brothers of Jesus and share in our Father's inheritance, and Jesus is God, does that imply we also are God?

Hebrews 2:10-11

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering. For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.

If we are brothers with Christ and fellow co-heirs with him, and Jesus is God, wouldn't that make us God too?

The more literal reading is what is known as Theosis, and it is taught in various forms in some Christian denominations today. Examples here and here. Other denominations reject this understanding of Theosis.

One of the prominent early Christian expressions of this idea is found in the writings of Clement of Alexandria, who wrote in the late 2nd century:

the Word of God became a man so that you might learn from a man how to become a god (Exhortation to the Greeks, 1)

If we are brothers with Christ and fellow co-heirs with him, and Jesus is God, wouldn't that make us God too?

Yes, it would.

The idea that man will become God appears throughout the scriptures:

Hebrews 2:9-12 (NLT):

9 … and because he suffered death for us, he is now ‘crowned with glory and honor.’ Yes, by God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone. 10 God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation. 11 So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. 12 For he said to God, ‘I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among your assembled people.’

Romans 8:29–30:

29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.

2 Corinthians 6:18:

And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty

John 10:34–36:

34 Jesus replied, "It is written in your own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’ 35 And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’ 36 why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? …

Psalm 82:6:

I say, ‘You are gods; you are all children of the Most High.

The understanding that mankind's ultimate destiny is to become part of God's family, and therefore literally become God, has continued through the ages, as echoed by Tertullian in AD 200 ("we will be even gods"), and C.S. Lewis in the 1940s ("He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god").

Justin Martyr, 2nd century:

deemed worthy of becoming gods and of having power to become sons of the highest.

Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th century:

Augustine, 5th century:

If then we have been made sons of god, we have also been made gods.

Present day:

God’s intention that we as His children become the same kind of beings He is will surprise many. Yet it’s clear that early “church fathers” — not so far removed in time from Jesus Christ and the apostles — did understand this truth. Notice the remarkable explanation of the early Catholic theologian Tertullian, writing around A.D. 200:

“For we will be even gods, if we deserve to be among those of whom He declared, ‘I have said, “You are gods,”’ and ‘God stands in the congregation of the gods.’ But this comes of His own grace, not from any property in us. For it is He alone who can make gods” (Against Hermogenes, chap. 5).

More recent authors have also grasped this biblical truth. C.S. Lewis, perhaps the most popular Christian writer of the last century, wrote: “He said (in the Bible) that we were ‘gods’ and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him — for we can prevent Him, if we choose — He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature … The process will be long and in parts very painful; but that is what we are in for. Nothing less. He meant what He said” (Mere Christianity, 1996, p. 176).

— When God Became Man so Man Could Become God | United Church of God

We are dealing with analogy here. An analogy is where a comparison is drawn between two different objects, and that comparison is highly focussed. There is a sameness in one respect, but not overall, and we must be careful not to extend that comparison beyond what was intended.

So when the psalmist says this:

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. (Psalm 18:2 NIV)

...a comparison is made between God and a rock. What is the comparison? We should no doubt think in terms of a rock having strength, stability, and lasting nature. But we should not think in terms of size. God is not the size of a rock. Nor should we think in terms of impersonal. It's not saying that God has the intelligence of a rock. We must be careful not to press the analogy too far.

So the question here is: When Jesus calls me his brother, what kind of comparison is being made? To me it's obvious that this is analogy. Brother here is a real relationship, but it's not a normal human literal relationship of blood. So it has to be some kind of analogy. To repeat, the relationship is real, but we must be cautious in describing the scope of this real relationship.

I read in this passage a strong sense of difference as well as similarity. Note that it says in the quoted verse:

The one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family.

Same family, different means of entry. So yes, we share in God's nature, but not by nature. It is because by God's mercy we are drawn into a family that we never belonged to. Elsewhere in the New Testament we read about being adopted into God's family (eg Ephesians 1), and about a God who will glorify us all (eg, Romans 8). So in the fulness of time salvation will include a greatness of humanity that at present I can hardly imagine. But at no point does that mean that I am actually God, or even a god. I know myself too well to go down that path.

To expand on Peter Kirkpatrick's cogent answer, the elevation of humans to "become gods" is well-known among various religions. We even find it in the Bible here:

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” - Genesis 3:4,5 ESV

So, by disobeying God, we can become like God, a possibility not available before Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the "forbidden" tree? There's at least one cult that teaches God expected and wanted Adam and Eve to transgress.

Isn't that amazing!

Perhaps The Fall adds more context to what Paul said of Jesus to the Philippians:

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. - Philippians 2:5-7 ESV

So, if Jesus humbled himself to become a servant, how much more should we also do the same, not grasping at a high position in the kingdom of God, but serving one another in humility!

And look at how the elders behaved in Revelation 4:

. . . the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” - Revelation 4:10,11 ESV

They didn't heap praise on themselves, proudly wearing their crowns in splendor, congratulating each other as having been elevated as gods.

But rather, note how Jesus warned his disciples.

But many who are first will be last, and the last first. - Matthew 19:30 ESV

To answer the question directly, an inheritance comes either by birth or by adoption into a family. The relationship we have in that family is as children with a Father and an eldest Son. This doesn't make us equal to the Father. Furthermore, regarding the Son of God

And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” - Revelation 5:2-5 ESV

No one else was worthy!

Without clarifying questions, my answer is plainly, no. Hebrews 2:10-11 does not imply this. There is no verse which implies that “we” or anyone else is or will become capital G, God. God is described as One or Echad Strongs #H259.

You’ve posed a conditional question. If your conditions are not true, I don’t think you arrive at the same question.

Another point should me made if it hasn’t been made already; IF you share in your Father’s inheritance AND Jesus IS God-assuming you’re referencing “Father’s inheritance” to mean God; does that make you brother to God, the Father?

Jesus lays out a definition of who his Father, brother and sister and mother are in Matthew 12:50 KJV “For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

This also serves as evidence that Jesus is NOT God; supported by John 14:10 KJV “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”

Dealing with “gods”. To use a reference to Psalms 82:6 KJV “ I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.” If your question is asking whether you will be a god Strongs #430 defined as a leader, ruler or judge depending on your belief sure. When looking at the Hebrew word as those who first used the word would have looked at it; the word is comprised of hey-waw-lamed-aleph and carries the meaning of “The power or might of one who rules or teaches. One who yokes with another. Often applied to rulers or a god." according to "The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon" by Jeff A. Benner

If the question is whether Hebrews 2:10-11 implies what’s in your question, I would have to say no to that as well. It then becomes a matter of theology because the letter is addressed to the Hebrews; which can easily get beyond the scope of your question and BH altogether.

One clarifying question is "gods" in what way? Is it the changing of the nature of believers into glorified bodies as described in 1st Corinthians 15:50 KJV “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.” Reading the entire chapter adds more context but this is declarative; if that’s the right word.