Question: Some have taught that Christ eventually "discovered" that He was the Messiah and Son of God. That He had a personal epiphany. This is actually a form of Arianism - a denial of His divine nature. Christ was communicating with the Holy Trinity even in the womb and He knew Who He was/is. He always knew that He was the Second Person of the Trinity. Have you ever been taught that Christ was ignorant of His mission or identitybelow: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm#470
472 This human soul that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son of God could, when he became man, "increase in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man",101 and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience.102 This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking "the form of a slave".103
473 But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person.104 "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God."105 Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father.106 The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts.107
474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.108 What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.109
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