Not so fast - that concept is mentioned in passing in Psalms 82:6, in Isaiah, and by Jesus Himself in John 10:34.
John 10:29-32 reads, "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? "
Nowhere in scripture do we see Jesus equating anyone other than himself with God. Jesus is "exclusively" equal with God. This is the common and orthodox Christian view, but it is not shared by Mormonism.
You are right, the "World" is common, we area peculiar people