um, i don't know if 15 pages have been able to go by without someone mentioning it, but you might want to look at the context of Philippians 2:6.
Jesus, although He did not think it blasphemous to be considered equal to God (He forgave sins, and did not rebuke men who openly worshiped Him) - although it is right for Him to be thought equal to God, He set aside His glory and stepped down to become flesh, and pitch His tent among us.
that is why the preceding sentence is about meekness, and self-sacrifice, no?
If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing,
nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.
For, let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus,
who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God,
but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,
wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that [is] above every name,
that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth --
and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(Philippians 2:1-11, YLT)