Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved untranslated in Romans 8:15.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Anak angkat (adopted child) is a culturally comfortable, unstigmatized concept in Malay society, which gives this doctrine an unusually low-friction cultural bridge compared to most terms in this package.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
A legal-relational status change with full inheritance rights.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
CRITICAL: Islamic soteriology generally withholds certainty about final standing until Judgment Day; Romans 8's present-tense assurance grounded in Christ's finished work is a categorically different and theologically audacious claim that must not be softened into probabilistic hope.
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
Noun form for the act/state of being called by God.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in the constitutionally significant fusion of Malay ethnicity and Islam in Malaysian law and popular usage, which makes leaving Islam feel to many Malay readers like leaving one's ethnic identity itself.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call must be distinguished from takdir-style impersonal fate and from a merely optional religious invitation one may decline without consequence to God's purpose.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign, personal call that secures the salvation of the called, distinguished from takdir-style impersonal predetermination.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign, personal choosing for salvation.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
CRITICAL: Calling God 'Father' can register as implying literal offspring, which tawhid forbids.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently taking on true human nature.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
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).
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
CRITICAL: Syafaat Nabi Muhammad is not a fringe folk belief but a standard, formally taught article of mainstream Sunni eschatology in Malaysia.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, damai sejahtera is relational, whole-life peace with God through justification, echoing the fullness of Hebrew shalom well.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, whole-life peace secured through justification by faith, not merely psychological calm (ketenangan) or a routine greeting-register use of 'sejahtera.'
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
CRITICAL: Syafaat Nabi Muhammad (the Prophet Muhammad's intercession on Judgment Day) is a standard, formally taught article of mainstream Sunni eschatology in Malaysian Islamic education, not a fringe or folk-only belief.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care, at real risk of collapsing into takdir-style fatalism rather than the specifically good, Father-hearted purpose Romans 8:28 asserts.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive care, especially Romans 8:28.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: Must affirm real bodily death followed by bodily resurrection.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: Qur'an 4:157 denies Jesus actually died on the cross.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: Full phrase required, never softened.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: Qur'an 112:3 states Allah 'neither begets nor is begotten.' This is the doctrine at the center of the global 'Son of God' Bible translation controversy; this Language Package explicitly forbids euphemistic substitution and requires Anak Allah to be taught as eternal, non-physical Sonship within the Godhead.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29