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Because even at that time there were men who asserted the Son to have been brought into being out of the non-existent, the term homoousion was adopted, to extirpate this impiety.
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The teaching of Arius was condemned by the Council of Nicaea, and the word homoousion adopted as the touchstone of orthodoxy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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While not expressly repudiating the Lucianic formulas, it nevertheless objected to the terms homoousion and homoiousion as being alike unscriptural.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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And after other explanations of our common faith, it says, Born not made, of one substance with the Father (which in Greek they call homoousion).
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The second reason that you added was that our fathers, when Paul of Samosata was pronounced a heretic, also rejected the word homoousion, on the ground that by attributing this title to God he had taught that He was single and undifferentiated, and at once Father and to Himself.
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The Samosatene was wrong in using the word homoousion; does that make the Arians right in denying it?
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Is not the meaning here of the word homoousion that the Son is produced of the Father's nature, the essence of the Son having no other origin, and that both, therefore, have one unvarying essence?
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Council of Nicaea adopted the word homoousion 'He who does so, must necessarily like its rejection by the Arians.
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The meaning which they profess to detect in the word homoousion, and in the assertion of the eternity of the Son, is detested, rejected, denounced by the Church.
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I believed this before I knew the word homoousion but it greatly helped my belief.
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