Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; kept as transliteration alongside ತಂದೆ.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Emphasizes full son-status and inheritance, and a permanent, personal, ongoing relationship — not a stage on the way to eventual merger or dissolution of identity.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights, in an ongoing, personal, distinct relationship with the Father — not a preliminary stage on the way to eventual absorption into the divine.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance rests in God's unchanging character; distinguish from the uncertain, incremental progress of the Lingayat shatsthala path, where a devotee's advancement toward Aikya is a matter of ongoing spiritual attainment rather than a settled, gifted status.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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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.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called; pair with ಕರೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟ for the participle.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity is found in union with Christ while remaining a distinct person in relationship with him, not caste, community, or progress toward eventual dissolution of the self.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's initiating, sovereign call must be distinguished from the devotee-initiated path of Lingayat spiritual ascent (the shatsthala stages, entered and progressed through by the devotee's own discipline) and from the Haridasa bhakti pattern of a devotee choosing to become a 'dasa' (servant) of a chosen deity.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the one called; not the devotee's own progressive advance through the Lingayat shatsthala stages, nor the impersonal working-out of karma.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign, personal choice, not ಹಣೆಬರಹ ('forehead-writing', the vivid Kannada idiom for a predetermined fate) or ವಿಧಿ (impersonal destiny).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father, using the everyday Kannada word for father rather than the more distant, abstract ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಕರ್ತ (creator).
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER ಅವತಾರ, especially salient for readers formed by coastal Karnataka's Haridasa Krishna-bhakti tradition centered at Udupi.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER ಅವತಾರ — highly salient for readers formed by coastal Karnataka's Haridasa Krishna-bhakti tradition (centered at Udupi).
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer on behalf of others; standard term.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
Relational peace with God through justification, not the inner tranquility (ಮನಶ್ಶಾಂತಿ) sought through bhakti devotion or Lingayat meditative discipline.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational peace secured through justification; not the inner tranquility sought through bhakti devotion or Lingayat meditative discipline.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God through Christ; distinguish from bhakti puja/kirtane directed toward a chosen personal deity and from the meditative discipline of engaging the ishtalinga.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive governance.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive governance.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: NEVER ಪುನರ್ಜನ್ಮ.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required; conveys eternal, unique Sonship, not a divinely-elevated human teacher such as a great Sharana poet-saint.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship; not a title of honor bestowed on an especially devoted or enlightened figure.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29