Jesus as God or Jesus as a child of God?

If you believe that Jesus was in fact God, well then you would look to the sources that were closest to him for information. But... if you believe that Jesus was not the 'only son of God', that we are all equal children of God and that Jesus set an example of how we should be/behave, then you would believe that we all have the potential to love as greatly as he did. If God is in every one of us as he was in Jesus, then empathizing with Jesus may bring one closer to him than reading about him would.