Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; kept as transliteration alongside ପିତା.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Emphasizes full son-status and inheritance rather than a reduced or provisional status.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; must not be read through any hereditary, caste-linked framework of graded family or ritual status, such as the hereditary seba rights of temple-service families at Puri.
ROM.9.4
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called; pair with ଆହୂତ for the participle.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
ନିୟମ is the established Eastern Indian (Bengali-Odia) Christian term for covenant, as in 'ପୁରାତନ ନିୟମ' (Old Testament) and 'ନୂତନ ନିୟମ' (New Testament); ଚୁକ୍ତି (a mutual contract) is too transactional for a divinely-initiated covenant.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established proper name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation; no structural equivalent exists in Odia Vaishnav devotional tradition.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: co-equal, undiminished divine nature — not a wooden ritual image periodically renewed, and not one deity among the region's several venerated forms (Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra worshipped together at Puri).
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's initiating, sovereign call must be distinguished from a devotee's own vow-taking or pilgrimage undertaken to Puri, and from the technical, sign-based ritual process by which temple authorities identify a new sacred image during Nabakalebara.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the one called; not fate (ଭାଗ୍ୟ) and not the technical, sign-based selection ritual used to identify a new sacred image during Nabakalebara.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign, personal choice — not fate (ଭାଗ୍ୟ/ନିୟତି), and distinct also from the sign-based ritual selection process (locating the sacred neem tree bearing the correct marks for Nabakalebara) by which Puri temple priests identify a new image; God's election is a personal choice of a person, not a technical ritual-omen procedure.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; avoid the more distant, abstract ସୃଷ୍ଟିକର୍ତ୍ତା (creator).
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor; avoid light-only imagery that could merge with generic divine-light devotional associations.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: never ଠାକୁର (the everyday devotional name for Jagannath specifically, as in 'ବଡ଼ ଠାକୁର') or ଭଗବାନ (broad generic-deity term).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: transliterated term; the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of many avatar-descents.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: the Messiah is the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of Jagannath's own avatara associations with Vishnu/Krishna, and not a periodically-renewed sacred figure.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.
ROM.9.5