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
Filipino adoption custom is culturally well understood; the emphasis needed is that this sonship is full, permanent, and comes with complete inheritance rights.
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
Noun form for the act/state of being called; standard term.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A relational, binding bond initiated by God; established term (as in Bagong Tipan, New Testament).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established Filipino Bible proper-name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background teaching; no significant competing folk concept.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
Already affirmed in Filipino Catholic catechesis; risk is devotional dilution through disproportionate attention to Mary or particular saints rather than outright denial.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's personal call should be distinguished from swerte/kapalaran (luck/fate), a common folk-fatalistic framing.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not swerte/kapalaran (luck/fate).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not swerte/kapalaran (luck/fate), common folk-fatalistic framing for how life outcomes are determined.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal, relational Father.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor and majesty; standard, well-established term.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
Diyos (from Spanish Dios) is shared across Catholic and Protestant Filipino usage with well-established, non-ambiguous doctrinal content.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term; the unique, exclusively fulfilled OT promise.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
Filipino Catholic tradition has no rival messianic figure; the teaching task is connecting Mesiyas back to its OT roots rather than guarding against a competing concept.
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