Passage
Romans 10
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Kerala's churches have long-established, socially accepted evangelistic and mission traditions; risk here is comparatively lower than in most other languages in this pipeline.
ROM.10.14-15
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; distinguish from generalized devotional reverence (ഭക്തി).
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust in Christ.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament); an established doctrinal framework in Malayalam Christian teaching with low ambiguity.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
NEVER ജാതികള് for this doctrinal sense, despite its use in some older Bible translations: ജാതി is also the ordinary Malayalam word for "caste," and Kerala's own social history includes some of India's most rigid historical caste stratification.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Vocabulary is settled and unambiguous, but the doctrine's consequence if mistranslated remains severe enough to require theologian review; the operative risk is AI-generated paraphrase drift, not competing religious vocabulary.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Established across all Malayalam Christian traditions (Syro-Malabar, Malankara Orthodox, Latin Catholic, and Protestant/Evangelical), reflecting over a millennium of continuous Christian presence in Kerala.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Romans 8:26-27 describes the Spirit's direct intercession for believers.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Israel
Established proper-name form.
ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Jesus
CRITICAL: the standard modern Malayalam Bible (Satyavedapustakam) form, used ecumenically across Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Malayalam Christianity.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Justification
Established Malayalam theological compound for the forensic, declared-righteous sense.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic law; an established, long-settled Malayalam Bible term.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Lord
Established across all Malayalam Christian traditions.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Lordship of Christ
CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 is the salvation confession.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Romans emphasizes the Spirit's direct intercession; note the Catholic/Orthodox Malayalam tradition's parallel practice of seeking intercession through Mary and canonized saints as an internal denominational-emphasis distinction to teach, not a doctrinal error to correct.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
NEVER ധര്മ്മം, the Malayalam cognate of Sanskrit dharma, carrying the same cosmic-duty connotation found elsewhere in South Asia.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Salvation
DISTINCT FROM OTHER LANGUAGES: this is the only language in this batch where salvation is not Critical risk.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Salvation
രക്ഷ (protection/rescue/deliverance) has been the settled Malayalam Christian term for close to two millennia, since the Saint Thomas Christian tradition predates most later Sanskrit-influenced Hindu vocabulary layers now common elsewhere.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Use ജനതകള്, not ജാതികള് (which reads as "castes"), given Kerala's own caste history and the documented internal caste-heritage stratification within Malayalam Christianity itself.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Kerala's own Christian community carries an internal version of this tension: the ancient Saint Thomas Christian (Syrian Christian) community historically held elevated, caste-like social status comparable to upper-caste Hindu communities, while more recent Dalit converts from 19th- and 20th-century mass movements have faced, and in places still face, social stratification within Malayalam Christianity itself.
ROM.10.12-13