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

They added to the tenets and symbols the words consubstantial with the Father; and concluded by anathematising the Arians.

From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Mitchell, Logan

And I am sure that if the field-tent had had to be set up in a field in a hurry, the hold-all and the sleeping-bag would have arisen and insisted on their consubstantial rights.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

There is "something eternal," "a seminal infiniteness," in the soul, its native Root and Bottom, consubstantial with it and inseparable from it.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew