Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; kept as transliteration alongside ತಂದೆ.
ROM.9.4
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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.9.4
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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.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 ಕರೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟ for the participle.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Established Kannada Christian term for a binding relational bond; ಒಪ್ಪಂದ (a mutual agreement/contract) is too transactional 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 structural equivalent exists in Haridasa bhakti or Veerashaiva tradition.
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 Lingayat category, a Sharana who reached Aikya) and not one devotional lord among several chosen personal deities in a Haridasa devotee's practice.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor; avoid light-only imagery that could merge with devotional divine-light or mystical-illumination associations from the Aikya path.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: ದೇವರು is the standard Kannada Bible term for God, but avoid ಭಗವಂತ (a broad, generic honorific for any deity) in doctrinally precise contexts.
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 the Haridasa tradition's Krishna-avatar associations, and not an exceptionally realized human teacher such as a Sharana poet-saint.
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