Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Full legal son-status with inheritance rights.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Burmese customary adoption is culturally well understood; the emphasis needed is that this sonship is full and permanent, with complete inheritance rights, not a probationary status.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Never conflate with ကံဇာတာ (astrologically fixed fate/destiny), a common Burmese folk-religious frame for a person's life path.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A relational, binding bond initiated by God; more than a negotiated agreement (သဘောတူညီချက်).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established Myanmar Bible proper-name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit OT background teaching; there is no analogous royal-line covenant concept in Burmese religious tradition.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: Co-equal, eternal divine nature; not an enlightened human teacher elevated to a Brahma-realm deity through accumulated merit.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call must be distinguished from ကံဇာတာ (fixed karmic destiny) and from a revocable invitation a person can simply decline.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not karma-fixed destiny (ကံဇာတာ) or fatalism.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not ကံဇာတာ/ကံကြမ္မာ (karma-fixed destiny determined by accumulated past-life actions).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
CRITICAL: Never substitute ဗြဟ္မာ (Brahma, a high but impersonal deity-realm in Buddhist cosmology).
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
ဘုန်း alone is ambiguous in everyday Burmese, doubling as the accumulated merit-power that elevates a monk's or king's standing (ဘုန်းကံ).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: ဘုရား alone (phaya) is the everyday word for a Buddha image, a pagoda, or the Buddha himself, and နတ်သခင် evokes the ranked nat-spirit pantheon.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: Never use မိတ္တေယျ (Metteyya, the future Buddha of Theravada expectation).
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Must not be conflated with Theravada expectation of Metteyya (မိတ္တေယျ), the future Buddha.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and fulfillment of the Davidic covenant promise.
ROM.9.5