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

He denied having said it, but, at any rate, the general feeling of his followers was that Christ's physical nature was divine and therefore not consubstantial with ours.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

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)

Eutyches said: I have never yet presumed to speculate concerning the nature of my God, the Lord of heaven and earth; I confess that I have never said that He is consubstantial with us.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen