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

Here it may be asked: If soul is manifested only as consubstantial with God, why this laboured effort to exhibit the recognition?

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

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

The very diversity in taste proves its deep-down reality: preference and antipathy being consubstantial with the soul—nay, inherent in the very mechanism and chemistry of the body.

From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Lee, Vernon