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 Council decided, in the year 325, that Christ was consubstantial with the Father.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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
Born of the Father before all ages, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father .
From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
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