Definition of coeternal in English:
coeternal
adjective kəʊəˈtəːn(ə)lˌkoʊəˈtərn(ə)l
Existing with something else eternally.
creation is not coeternal with God
Example sentencesExamples
- For Arius, the Son could not be coeternal with the Father.
- Since God's power is coeternal with God himself, it is immutably the same.
- They were not coeternal with him, yet they were foreknown, foreseen, and foreordained by him.
- Christians believe in a complex God, three coeternal persons living a single enduring communion.
- The Deity is coeternal with Time and Space, and has all his attributes infinite.
Derivatives
adverb
Arius did not reject the idea that the Son was fully God, but merely asserted that he had not been God coeternally with the Father.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Scripture states clearly that the triune Godhead operates coequally, coeternally, and coexistently, as one Being.
- Latter-day scriptures and other sources do not explicitly state that eternal law exists independently or coeternally with God.
- These three Persons are coequally and coeternally God and share the same authority and attributes.
- Man exists coeternally with God as the temporal manifestation of His power and goodness.
Definition of coeternal in US English:
coeternal
adjectiveˌkōəˈtərn(ə)lˌkoʊəˈtərn(ə)l
Equally eternal; existing with something else eternally.
the Deity is coeternal with Time and Space
Example sentencesExamples
- For Arius, the Son could not be coeternal with the Father.
- They were not coeternal with him, yet they were foreknown, foreseen, and foreordained by him.
- The Deity is coeternal with Time and Space, and has all his attributes infinite.
- Since God's power is coeternal with God himself, it is immutably the same.
- Christians believe in a complex God, three coeternal persons living a single enduring communion.