Thank You Pilgrim. You showed me that I was trying to understand something which can only be taken by faith. I had read Ray Stedman's commentary on Phil2:5-11 and that is what he said. I am paraphrasing but essentially that: never once in the 33 yrs.That Jesus was on earth, did He operate out of His own power but, solely depended on the Father's power working through Him to do everything including miracles. This said to me that Jesus could still be fully God and choose not to use His own powers but operate fully as a human being totally dependent on the Father for everything. To me, this did not diminish His being fully God one bit. Obviously I and Ray Stedman are wrong.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you. John Owen