Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically; iman by Islamic default names confessional submission to Allah and his messengers as a system, not necessarily trust in a specific atoning mediator.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
ایمان (a core Arabic-derived Islamic theological term, one of the pillars of Islamic religious vocabulary) must have its object made explicit -- personal trust in Christ specifically -- since by Islamic default ایمان names confessional submission to Allah and his messengers as a system, not necessarily personal trust in a specific mediator's atoning work.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament fulfillment in Christ), not the Quranic prophetology model of each revelation superseding the last.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; a descriptive rendering built on قوم (people/nation), a term already familiar from regional political and religious discourse.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Must be distinguished from mainstream Islamic deeds-weighing mercy AND from Kashmir Shaivism's shaktipat (the awakening of divinity already dormant within a person) -- two distinct wrong frames, not one.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
CRITICAL: فضل (an Arabic-derived term for favor/grace, attested in Islamic vocabulary) must be explicitly taught as unearned favor apart from human merit, guarding against two distinct wrong frames at once.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Standard proper name; note the modern nation-state of Israel shares this name, so context should clarify when the biblical people/covenant referent, not the contemporary state, is meant -- a distinction of particular sensitivity given regional geopolitics.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
شریعت (an Arabic loanword sharing its root with Islamic Sharia) is the standard term for the Mosaic Law/Torah and law generally.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
A standard descriptive term for prophetic declaration; distinct from astrology or folk fortune-telling.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
گناہ (an Arabic/Persian-derived term shared with Islamic usage) is well established.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Must be taught with theological clarity rather than mapped onto the region's own communal history, which addresses a different (political/social) kind of division from the one Romans is resolving.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before a personal, distinct God; retain universal language without softening, and note explicitly for Trika-shaped readers that this presupposes a real self-other distinction their own non-dualist framework does not grant by default.
ROM.3.23