Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Persian Shia iman includes belief in the Imamate as a core article; must be anchored as personal trust in Christ specifically, not creedal assent to a succession doctrine.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Shares the same six-pillars creedal-assent structure as Arabic iman, with a further Shia-specific layer: belief in the Imamate (the divinely-appointed succession beginning with Ali) is itself a core article of Shia iman.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Naskh (abrogation) doctrine, shared across Sunni and Shia Islam, treats later revelation as superseding earlier revelation; Romans' fulfillment argument needs deliberate framing against this default.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  امت‌ها (ommat-ha) shares the loaded Ummah root; the more neutral descriptive غیریهودیان ('non-Jews') avoids that association.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Feyz's Persian philosophical loading (divine emanation, an automatic ontological overflow) must be corrected toward a freely willed, personal gift secured through Christ, apart from merit.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Feyz carries a distinct Persian philosophical loading: in Illuminationist and Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Theosophy, 'feyz' denotes divine emanation - being automatically overflowing from God into creation, a metaphysical process rather than a freely willed, unmerited gift.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Iran's state ideology maintains an unusually intense, officially propagandized anti-Israel stance as a pillar of foreign policy, arguably even more totalizing for an Iranian audience than the general Arab-world association.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  CRITICAL: some existing Persian Bible translations (Tarjome Ghadeem, Mojdeh) do use شریعت (shari'at) for the Mosaic Law, unlike Arabic Bible tradition's deliberate avoidance of the shari'a-cognate word.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  Low independent risk beyond the prophet entry's own note.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Native pre-Islamic Persian word.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Requires careful pastoral framing given Iran's officially propagandized anti-Israel political stance; Romans 9-11's redemptive-historical argument must not be flattened into or read as commentary on present state politics.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  Islamic fitrah doctrine and Zoroastrianism's own Chinvat Bridge deeds-weighing independently reinforce a strong Persian cultural default toward innate goodness balanced against deeds, rather than inherited guilt in Adam.

  ROM.3.23