Passage

Romans 10

• Doctrine

  Evangelism

  In a religious landscape with fast-growing Evangelical/Pentecostal movements alongside historic Catholic majority and mainstream Kardecism, use language of proclamation and witness rather than confrontational or sectarian framing.

  ROM.10.14-15

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ, not generic belief in the spirit world or confidence in one's own moral progress.

  ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ, not generic belief in 'the spirit world' or confidence in one's own moral and spiritual progress, both common framings in Brazilian folk religiosity.

  ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament); requires OT background many nominal Catholic or culturally Christian readers were never catechized in.

  ROM.10.11

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Standard term.

  ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  Must be distinguished from Allan Kardec's widely known 'O Evangelho Segundo o Espiritismo,' which reframes the term as ethical teaching compatible with reincarnation.

  ROM.10.15-16

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Standard term shared by Catholic and Protestant Portuguese Bibles.

  ROM.10.15-16

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Romans 8:26-27 and 8:34 describe the Spirit's and Christ's direct intercession.

  ROM.10.1

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Standard proper name.

  ROM.10.12

• Glossary Term

  Jesus

  Standard across all Portuguese Bible traditions; the risk is not the name but the doctrinal content around it (see Messiah, Incarnation).

  ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: a forensic declaration of righteousness received by faith (Romans 3-5), not a gradual process of moral or spiritual improvement — a reading both Tridentine Catholic and Kardecist Spiritist frameworks would independently suggest by analogy to their own systems of gradual merit.

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic law/Torah.

  ROM.10.11

• Glossary Term

  Lord

  CRITICAL: Romans 10:9, 'Jesus é o Senhor,' is the salvation confession.

  ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Lordship of Christ

  CRITICAL: Romans 10:9, 'Jesus é o Senhor,' is the salvation confession.

  ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  CRITICAL: the Spirit and Christ intercede directly for believers (Romans 8:26-27, 8:34).

  ROM.10.1

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, not psicografia, the well-known Kardecist practice of mediums transcribing messages purportedly from the dead.

  ROM.10.11

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: right standing before God granted through faith.

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: reconciliation with a personal God received by faith, not the Kardecist 'evolução espiritual' achieved gradually across many reincarnations through the spirit's own moral effort.

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: the single highest-risk term in this Language Package.

  ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Brazil's own history of racial and social stratification (rooted in its colonial and slaveholding past, the largest in the Americas) gives Romans' 'no distinction' claim direct social weight distinct from the caste dynamics relevant in South Asia or the indigenous/Afro-descendant hierarchies relevant elsewhere in Latin America.

  ROM.10.12

• Doctrine

  Universal Scope of the Gospel

  No ethnic, racial, or class barrier to the gospel; retain unqualified universal language.

  ROM.10.12-13