Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity is located in union with Christ, not in mystical self-perfection (kasampurnan) or inherited priyayi social status.

  ROM.6.1-11

• Doctrine

  Grace

  CRITICAL: Grace as unearned favor cuts against kasekten (earned spiritual potency), wahyu (a conferred mandate), and utang budi (the reciprocal social debt of gratitude Javanese ethics obligates a person to repay).

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: Never use kasekten (spiritual/magical potency attributed to sacred objects or ascetics), wahyu (the mystical mandate-light believed to legitimize a ruler), or utang budi (a reciprocal debt of gratitude that Javanese social ethics obligates a person to repay).

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Set apart for God and morally pure.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: Never use dhemit or lelembut (categories of folk spirits/unseen beings in Javanese belief).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: Never use titisan (the Javanese belief that an ancestor's or deity's spiritual quality is reborn or manifested in a later descendant or chosen figure, often invoked in royal-legitimacy narratives) or reinkarnasi.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: Bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, not a self-directed ascetic discipline aimed at attaining kasampurnan (mystical perfection).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinct from ritual purification practices performed before slametan ceremonies.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with the ascetic withdrawal (tapa, tirakat) practiced in Javanese mysticism to attain spiritual perfection.

  ROM.6.22