{"id":10861,"date":"2019-12-05T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10861"},"modified":"2019-12-05T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:57:28","slug":"philippians-25-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10861\/philippians-25-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippians 2:5-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This week\u2019s memory verse for David\u2019s class is this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cIn your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u202d\u202dPhilippians\u202c \u202d2:5-6\u202c \u202dNIV\u202c\u202c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We know that Jesus is not equal to God, so what is this verse saying? Am I misreading it? I read it that it was saying that he did not consider using it to his advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Carrie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Carrie:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>That\u2019s the Trinitarian perversion of that scripture from Philippians. The correct translation is below (Phip. 2):<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">5. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">6. who, although existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be grasped after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! This week\u2019s memory verse for David\u2019s class is this: \u201cIn your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;\u201d \u202d\u202dPhilippians\u202c \u202d2:5-6\u202c \u202dNIV\u202c\u202c We know that Jesus is not equal to God, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}