TANYA - What does it mean when scriptures say Christ descending below all things?

JOEL - When Christ sufffered for our sins in the Garden of Gesthemane He experienced all the pain and torment that everyone on this earth has or will experience through their sinful and unsinful acts and experiences. There is not one person on this earth who has felt more suffering than Christ did. Neal A. Maxwell explained it best:

"Revealed truths reassure us that we are enclosed in divine empathy. As Enoch witnessed, we worship a God who wept over needless human misery and wickedness (see Moses 7:28-29, 33, 37). Jesus’ perfect empathy was ensured when, along with His Atonement for our sins, He took upon Himself our sicknesses, sorrows, griefs, and infirmities and came to know these - according to the flesh- (Alma 7:11-12). He did this in order that He might be filled with perfect, personal mercy and empathy and thereby know how to succor us in our infirmities. He thus fully comprehends human suffering. Truly Christ “descended below all things, in that He comprehended all things” (D&C 88:6). (Neal A. Maxwell, “Enduring Well,” Ensign, Apr. 1997, 7)

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