Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; kept as transliteration alongside પિતા.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Emphasizes full son-status and inheritance; the colloquial verb phrase 'to take in adoption' can imply reduced or provisional status.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; must not be read through any social framework of graded or provisional family 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
Noun form for the act/state of being called; pair with તેડાયેલા for the participle.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
કરાર is an established Gujarati word for a binding relational agreement, used in both Bible translation and everyday legal speech; સમજૂતી (mutual understanding) is too weak for a divinely-initiated covenant.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established proper name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation; no true structural parallel exists in either the Hindu or Jain traditions common in Gujarat.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal, undiminished divine nature, not a divinely-elevated human teacher — the closest available category for Jain hearers, who venerate the Tirthankaras as perfected humans rather than an eternal creator.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's initiating, sovereign call must be set apart from Gujarat's culture of guru-disciple initiation (diksha), common to both Swaminarayan bhakti and Jain monastic entry, where the aspirant typically seeks out and petitions the teacher.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the one called; not the impersonal, self-executing cause-and-effect of Jain karma theory, where consequence follows action automatically with no personal caller involved.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not નસીબ/નિયતિ (fate/destiny) or the impersonal, mechanical cause-and-effect of Jain karma theory, which allows no place for a personal chooser at all.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; avoid abstract creator-titles that lack relational warmth.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor; avoid light-only imagery that could merge with Hindu divine-light or Jain kevala-jnana ('infinite light of omniscience') associations.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: ભગવાન is extremely common colloquially in Gujarat for any Hindu deity, and among Jains is often applied to the Tirthankaras — perfected, liberated human teachers rather than an eternal creator.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: transliterated term; the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of many avatar-descents.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: the Messiah is the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of Vaishnav Krishna's many avatars (especially salient given Dwarka's location in Gujarat) and not one of the Jain lineage of twenty-four Tirthankaras, each arising independently across cosmic time.
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