In the LDS eisegesis, yes, they do.
we allow it to stand as it is.
Leaving the text as it reads, but re-interpreting what it states is not allowing the text to stand as it is.
Jesus was in the "form of God", but until he went through his mortal mission and was resurrected and exalted, he was only in the "form of God". After his mission and resurrection he sat down on the right side of the Father and was a God in his own right.
This is what I mean, by the above responses.
The Son, was not merely in "the form of God", for if you notice He was not a "servant" until taking on the "form of a servant" (flesh of mankind), which means that the phrase "form of God", means He already was eternally God, as John 1:1, "the Word was God", as Genesis 1:7, "God made" says, and so on.
Proverbs 8, again declares that the Son was eternally by the side of the Father, "as one brought up with him" (Pro. 8:30). In Genesis 17-19, of which we have already spoken of, you acknowledged that the Son was there specifically called "The LORD" (JEHOVAH; Gen. 19:24), which previously Abraham said, "the Judge of all the Earth" (Gen. 18:25). When the Son met Moses at the burning bush, the Son said of Himself, "I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" (Exo. 3:6), and "I am come down" (Exo. 3:8), and "I AM THAT I AM ... I AM" (Exo. 3:14), etc. You also acknowledged that the Son was in Genesis 1.
The name Jesus, means JEHOVAH is salvation (H3444), see Gen. 49:18.
So Jesus went from 'form of God' in his pre-mortal glory, to 'mortal being', humbling himself even unto death, and then being resurrected and exalted, and took on the full glory of God, or 'a God'.
The only issue is that the Son had "full glory" before taking upon Himself the form of a servant, as Jesus so says:
Joh_17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Read Phil 2 carefully.
We also can be one with Jesus and his Father:
John 17:20-21 King James Version (KJV)
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Yes, but being "one", that is to say "at-one-ment" with God, in His character, does not grant the person of mankind the status or nature of Deity. We will always be finite creations of the Creator, JEHOVAH Elohiym, who alone is "immortal", having "life" within, being "Life" itself. We will always be deriving our life from God, since we always borrow life from God. God borrows life from no one:
Joh_11:25 Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
No creature could says that, and it not be blasphemy. Only Deity can say that and it not be blasphemy.
IOW, everything Jesus thought was not robbery to be like God, normal humans can have those same thoughts.
Jesus was not merely "like God" in character, for Jesus is and ever has been the "express image" (Heb. 1:2) of His Father, and thus is not merely like God (Deity), but actually is God (Deity), just not the Person of the Father.