Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15 (아바 아버지).
ROM.9.4
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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.9.4
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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.9.4
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Korean Christian usage already maintains a clean structural distinction unavailable in some of this pipeline's other languages: 언약 (relational, divinely initiated covenant) is kept distinct from 계약 (gyeyak, an ordinary secular/commercial contract).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard KRV proper name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation; Korean already distinguishes 언약 (covenant) cleanly from 계약 (commercial contract), which helps rather than hinders this doctrine's clarity relative to some other languages in this pipeline.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal, eternal divine nature — not a spiritually powerful shamanistic deity or ancestor-spirit granted elevated status.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
Must be kept distinct from saju-paljja birth-chart astrology (사주팔자), still commonly consulted in Korea.
ROM.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
Avoid 팔자 (birth-chart-determined fate) or 운 (luck/fortune).
ROM.9.11-12
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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.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
Avoid collapsing into 명예 (secular honor/reputation) or 출세 (chulse, career/social success), both prominent in Korea's intensely status-and-achievement-conscious culture.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: this package standardizes on 하나님 (Protestant usage, popularized through the late-19th-century Korean Bible translation tradition, built on 하나 'one' plus the honorific 님, emphasizing explicit monotheism).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
그리스도 (transliteration of 'Christos') is the KRV standard, used consistently.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
Korea's high existing Christian literacy makes this comparatively lower-risk than in Japan; still avoid conflating with 미륵 (Maitreya, the future Buddha of Korean Buddhist eschatology, historically invoked by Korean folk-millenarian movements).
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