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
過繼 (transferring an heir within a clan, historically common in Pearl River Delta single-surname villages to continue ancestor-worship obligations) is instrumental rather than relational.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full relational son-status with complete inheritance rights; distinguish from clan-succession adoption (過繼) practiced to continue ancestor-worship obligations, and from the unrelated folk custom of dedicating a child as a temple deity's 'godson' (認契仔).
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
NEVER use 命中注定 (destined by fate, a phrase drawn from Cantonese fortune-telling and astrology culture, e.g.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
NEVER use 命運 (impersonal fate) or 緣分 (jyun4 fan6, a predestined fortuitous connection, a very common concept in Cantonese popular romance/friendship idiom).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Relational, divinely initiated covenant bond.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard Cantonese Bible proper name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation; no directly analogous perpetual-lineage covenant concept exists in Cantonese/Pearl River Delta clan tradition, where lineage continuity is maintained through adoption-for-succession rather than an unconditional divine promise.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal, eternal divine nature, not a spiritually powerful or wish-granting local deity of the kind found at Hong Kong temples.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
Must be kept distinct from birth-chart astrology (八字) and fatalistic destiny language still commonly consulted in Hong Kong.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not a birth-chart-determined fate (八字注定).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
NEVER use 命運 (impersonal fate) or 八字注定 (baat3 zi6 zyu3 ding6, 'fixed by one's birth-chart', referencing the still-common Cantonese practice of birth-time astrology).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal, caring Father.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
Avoid 面子 ('face'/reputation) and 威水 (wai1 seoi2, Cantonese colloquial for 'impressive/flashy success') — both reduce God's radiant divine glory to human social status or showy achievement, concepts with strong currency in Hong Kong's status-conscious commercial culture.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: this Language Package standardizes on 神 for Protestant curriculum consistency.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: established transliteration of 'Christos'.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: must not be conflated with Maitreya (彌勒) or with the wish-granting savior framing popularly attached to Wong Tai Sin.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.
ROM.9.5