Luke 2:
[52] And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.
And it was necessary for God to increase in wisdom and.....?
EXACTLY! While He was God He manifested in the flesh. He had to come as ‘man’ to take back what ‘man/Adam’ had lost.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, OVER ALL THE EARTH, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Mankind was given an unconditional authority over this earth. There was no restriction or fine print. Man/Adam transferred our God-given power and authority over to satan.
Jesus, the sinless man, had to reclaim what sinless ‘man/Adam’ HAD and sinful ‘man/Adam’ LOST.
I shy away from questions of "Jesus' messianic self-consciousness," but if He's human his brain takes time to come 'on-line." Not all intellective functions mature at once. In some they don't mature at all. But if one looks at temporality as a kind of projection of eternity one can imagine the perfect revelation of God would not be the same in every respect at every instant.
But yes, it blows my mind.
And it was necessary for God to increase in wisdom and.....?
Certainly stature. Babies are such little people; Jesus is depicted as at least average height, if not a little more. And does even God know how to deal with a Jewish mother?