consubstantial

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"One in being with the Father" becomes "consubstantial with the Father" in the Nicene creed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

For, if physical and mental processes are everywhere consubstantial, or identical in kind, it can make no difference whether we regard their sequences as objective or ejective, physical or spiritual.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John

He subscribed the Nicene Creed, apparently with some reservations, as to the word consubstantial.

From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

Certain persons, who confessed God the Son consubstantial to the Father, denied the divinity of the Holy Ghost.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban