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
Javanese customary adoption 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
Katimbalan (being personally summoned, drawn from Javanese court protocol for a ruler summoning a subject) conveys a personal, relational call.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the state of being called.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A relational, binding bond initiated by God; needs context to carry more weight than an ordinary negotiated agreement.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established Indonesian-archipelago Bible proper-name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit OT background teaching; the closest cultural analogue, a wahyu-legitimized royal line, actually risks importing the wrong (impersonal, transferable) framework rather than clarifying the covenant's relational, promise-based nature.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: Co-equal, eternal divine nature; not a wahyu-elevated ruler or a spiritually attained state achievable by any devotee.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's personal call must be distinguished from wahyu, the impersonal mystical mandate-light Javanese tradition holds can legitimize a ruler's authority.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not the impersonal, transferable wahyu believed to legitimize rulers.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not wahyu, the impersonal mystical mandate believed to legitimize a Javanese ruler's claim to the throne.
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
Never use wahyu (a transferable charismatic mandate-light) or kasekten (earned spiritual potency) for divine glory.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: The compound joins the Javanese honorific Gusti (lord/master) with Allah.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: Never use Satrio Piningit (the 'hidden knight' of Javanese Jayabaya prophecy, expected to arise and restore justice to Java).
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Must not be conflated with Satrio Piningit, the 'hidden knight' of Jayabaya's Javanese prophecy expected to restore justice to Java.
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