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 very diversity in taste proves its deep-down reality: preference and antipathy being consubstantial with the soul—nay, inherent in the very mechanism and chemistry of the body.

From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Lee, Vernon

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

Florentius, the patrician, said: Since the mother is consubstantial with us, doubtless the Son is consubstantial with us.

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