Another powerful objection the Origenists had to the word homoousios was that it could be taken to mean that the divine ousia (nature) had been split apart into two – that Father and Son had the same ousia in the sense that two coins are made of the same metal. But the divine nature is not like a lump of metal which can be split up into two coins. Of course, this was not what the Nicenes meant. They believed that there was only one divine nature which was possessed equally by Father and Son. An illustration of this would be one country shared equally by two races or tribes: not a splitting up
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