Salvation

CRITICAL: this is the actual New Testament word, unchanged for two thousand years — a translation gap of zero, unique among every Language Package in this pipeline. The risk is not a wrong word but accreted meaning: Greek Orthodox theology, developed continuously in the Greek language by the Cappadocian Fathers, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas, has folded σωτηρία into the doctrine of θέωσις (theosis) — participatory deification, becoming partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) — a theological development a Modern Greek reader accesses directly, without translation, unlike readers of any other language in this pipeline. Preserve Romans’ own emphasis on salvation decisively received by faith without either flattening or contradicting the theosis framework a Greek Orthodox reader brings to the same word.