Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic intimacy-term preserved as in Romans 8:15.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
CRITICAL: the same Quranic restriction on adoption (33:4-5) applies across Sunni and Shia Kurdish communities alike.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
CRITICAL: the shared Quranic restriction on adoption is reinforced by Kurdish tribal (aşîret) lineage structures; Romans 8's full inheritance must be taught explicitly against this default.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Mainstream Islamic piety treats certainty of one's own final salvation as presumptuous; Romans 8's assurance, grounded in God's unchanging character, must be taught deliberately against this default.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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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.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
A native compound word for invitation; the direction of address (God calling a person) still needs to be made explicit.
ROM.8.28-30
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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.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
Generally everyday invitation-vocabulary; still needs the direction of address (God calling a person) made explicit.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
Hilbijartin, the standard word for choosing/election, is also the modern word for democratic elections; God's sovereign choice must be distinguished from a vote or democratic process.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
Also the standard modern Kurdish word for democratic elections (hilbijartinên giştî, general elections), given the region's recent embrace of electoral politics (KRG elections, Rojava's political experiments).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
CRITICAL: a native Kurdish word, sharing the region's tawhid-anthropomorphism objection to Father-language for God.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: shares the tawhid objection with Arabic.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: shares the tawhid objection with Arabic and Persian.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
A transparent native compound ('the work of being in-between').
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
Aştî is the region's standard word for high-profile political peace processes (e.g.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
An asset: aştî's resonance with real, hard-won regional peace processes; the specific connection to justification must still be made explicit.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Shares the region's general shafa'at-adjacent theological complexity; Kurdish tribal reconciliation customs offer a modest but less institutionally developed parallel than found elsewhere in the region.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care; keep distinct from folk qadar fatalism.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive governance; keep distinct from folk qadar fatalism found regionally.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: shares the Quran's crucifixion-denial (4:157) with the region's mainstream Sunni Islam.
ROM.8.11
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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.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: the same Quranic denial (112:3, 19:35) applies.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: the same Quranic denial applies, but Kurdish Sufi 'wahdat al-wujud' philosophy and Yazidi divine-manifestation belief create a distinct inverted risk - too-ready assimilation into a mystical-absorption or repeated-manifestation framework rather than Christ's unique, eternal, ontological sonship.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29