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Correct. Mortality was a learning experience for Christ as it was for us and He came through through victorious.
Luke 2:52 (KJV) And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Hebrews 5:8 (KJV) Though he were a Son, yet **learned he obedience **by the things which he suffered;
Hebrews 5:9 (KJV) And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Mark 14:33 (KJV) And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed (astonished), and to be very heavy;
A fully divine being doesn’t grow in wisdom, learn obedience, become perfect, and become astonished at something.
LDS like to point out that prior to His crucifixtion he commanded in Matthew 5:48 (KJV) “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” He did not claim perfection yet. However, when preaching to the ancient Americans He commanded in the Book of Mormon in 3 Nephi 12:48 “Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.”
D&C 93:5-18 sums up beautifully Christ’s progression until receiving the fulness of the Father.
5 I (Christ) was in the world and received of my Father, and the works of him were plainly manifest.
6 And John [the Baptist] saw and bore record of the fulness of my glory, and the fulness of John’s record is hereafter to be revealed.
7 And he bore record, saying: I saw his glory, that he was in the beginning, before the world was;
8 Therefore, in the beginning the Word was, for he was the Word, even the messenger of salvation—
9 The light and the Redeemer of the world; the Spirit of truth, who came into the world, because the world was made by him, and in him was the life of men and the light of men.
10 The worlds were made by him; men were made by him; all things were made by him, and through him, and of him.
11 And I, John, bear record that I beheld his glory, as the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, even the Spirit of truth, which came and dwelt in the flesh, and dwelt among us.
12 And I, John, saw that he received not of the fulness at the first, but received grace for grace;
13 And he received not of the fulness at first, but continued from grace to grace, until he received a fulness;
14 And thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first.
15 And I, John, bear record, and lo, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Ghost descended upon him in the form of a dove, and sat upon him, and there came a voice out of heaven saying: This is my beloved Son.
16 And I, John, bear record that he received a fulness of the glory of the Father;
17 And he received all power, both in heaven and on earth, and the glory of the Father was with him, for he dwelt in him.
18 And it shall come to pass, that if you are faithful you shall receive the fulness of the record of John.
I hope this helps…
