Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15 (아바 아버지).
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Traditional Korean adoption (양자, historically adopting a male heir when no biological son existed) was primarily instrumental — its central purpose was continuing the family's Confucian ancestor-memorial rites (제사, jesa), not primarily relational belonging.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Traditional Korean heir-adoption existed primarily to continue Confucian ancestor-memorial rites (제사), an instrumental rather than relational purpose.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance rests on God's unchanging character, not on an ongoing fortune-seeking exchange (기복신앙) that could always still be judged insufficiently maintained.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
NEVER use 팔자에 정해진 ('fixed by one's birth-chart/fate,' referencing the still-common Korean folk-astrology practice of saju-paljja, Four Pillars of Destiny).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
NEVER use 운명 (unmyeong, impersonal fate) or 팔자 (paljja, one's fixed life-lot per birth-chart astrology).
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in family/clan lineage status, social achievement (출세), or ritual loyalty performance.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
Must be kept distinct from saju-paljja birth-chart astrology (사주팔자), still commonly consulted in Korea.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not a birth-chart-determined fate (팔자) or competitive-selection outcome.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
Avoid 팔자 (birth-chart-determined fate) or 운 (luck/fortune).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
CRITICAL: Korea's rigorous Confucian filial piety (효, hyo) tradition and ancestor-memorial rites (제사, jesa) historically created the sharpest doctrinal collision in Korean church history — 18th-19th century Korean Catholic converts were persecuted and martyred specifically for refusing to perform jesa rites toward deceased parents/ancestors as idolatrous.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
NEVER 화신 (a Buddhist avatar/incarnation-of-a-buddha concept describing a provisional, repeatable manifestation).
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
Established Korean theological term ('holy flesh-becoming').
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer on behalf of others addressed directly to God through Christ.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
KRV uses 화평 for the relational peace-with-God sense in Romans 5:1, distinct from the more general well-being greeting sense of 평안 (pyeongan).
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, covenantal peace through justification (화평), kept distinct from the general well-being greeting sense of 평안.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from a mudang's ritual mediation between the living and spirits during a gut ceremony.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care, not a birth-chart-determined fate (팔자) from the still-common saju-paljja folk-astrology system.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
NEVER use 팔자 (paljja, one's fixed fate per birth-chart astrology, from the still-common saju-paljja folk-astrology system) or 운명 (unmyeong, impersonal destiny).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
NEVER use 환생 (hwansaeng, rebirth) or 윤회 (yunhoe, the reincarnation cycle).
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
부활, not 환생 (rebirth) or 윤회 (reincarnation cycle).
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
Korea's own founding myth (the Dangun legend) tells of Hwanung, described as the son of the heavenly god Hwanin, descending to found Korea's first kingdom — a real but comparatively low-intensity echo (mythological/legendary rather than a living state ideology, unlike historic Chinese or pre-1946 Japanese imperial-divinity doctrines).
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
Korea's own founding myth (Dangun/Hwanung as son of the heavenly god Hwanin) offers a real but comparatively low-intensity echo, being legendary rather than a living state ideology.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29