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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At last he was God consubstantial with God.
From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles
For the truth is that our affirmations and negations do not stand on the same footing at all, and are anything but consubstantial.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy 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