consubstantial
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"One in being with the Father" becomes "consubstantial with the Father" in the Nicene creed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Archbishop Flavian said: Do you confess that the one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, is consubstantial with His Father as to His divinity, and consubstantial with His mother as to His humanity?
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
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
The council decided 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