Passage
Romans 6
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in tribal (aşîret) lineage or ethnic-national identity, both unusually strong organizing categories in Kurdish social and political life.
ROM.6.1-11
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Doctrine
Grace
The Sufi 'keramet' concept reserves extraordinary graces for elevated saints; grace here must be taught as freely given to all believers, not a mark of spiritual rank.
ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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Glossary Term
Grace
Kurdistan's rich Sufi heritage (the Naqshbandi revival led by the Kurdish Sheikh Mawlana Khalid) uses the cognate 'keramet' for miracles granted specifically to elevated Sufi saints as marks of spiritual rank.
ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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Glossary Term
Holy
The standard, extremely common native Kurdish word for holy/sacred (Kitêba Pîroz, the Holy Book).
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: shares the same Quranic phrase and mainstream tafsir identification with the angel Jibril (Gabriel) found regionally - the created-being-versus-divine-Person distinction must be made explicit at every occurrence.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: shares the Quran's crucifixion-denial (4:157) with the region's mainstream Sunni Islam.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: shares the Quran's crucifixion-denial with the region's Sunni majority; distinctly, minority Yazidi belief in reincarnation ('kiras guhertin') creates a separate, indigenous risk of conflation not present in mainstream regional Islam.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, not ritual purification.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
Pakkirin ('to purify,' from pak, clean) risks reading as ritual cleanliness; teqdîs keeps the specific theological sense of the Spirit's ongoing moral transformation.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the hereditary, shrine-centered spiritual elite status of a Sufi 'pîr'; biblical separation is devoted engagement with the world by all believers, not an elevated office for a few.
ROM.6.22