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

Of a consubstantial Trinity the Cathars naturally had never heard.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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

He was born about the middle of the 3rd century, and taught that God the Son was not equal to God the Father, being neither consubstantial nor co-eternal with the Father.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous