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

The content of each is wholly immanent, and there are no transitions with which they are consubstantial and through which their beings may unite.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

But table and non-table, since they are given to our thought together, must be consubstantial.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

Thence came Macedonius, who denied the Godhead of the Holy Spirit, consubstantial with the Father and the Son.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)