Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- Penjelmaan
- Transliteration
- pen-jel-MAHN
- Rejected alternatives
- Tuhan yang menyamar sebagai manusia (God disguising himself as a human)
Incarnation
CRITICAL: Penjelmaan (‘taking on form’) shares its root with penjelmaan dewa, an avatar-like concept surviving from the pre-Islamic Hindu-Buddhist civilizational layer of the Malay Archipelago (the historic Srivijaya and Majapahit era). Teaching material must clarify this is the eternal Son permanently, not temporarily or repeatably, taking on true human nature — not a deity’s episodic appearance in a Hindu-Buddhist avatar sense.