Follows an extension of an off-topic tangent from another thread. One reads in Gospel Principles (GP): I take from this that mortality is necessary to eternal the process of eternal progression. I take from this that, in order to become like God, one must follow Godâ??s plan for us to pass through mortality. Without this step, further progress was impossible. Yet, consider the following claims (and feel free to disagree with them): (1) Jesus Christ progressed to the status of deity prior to tak