Passage

Romans 11

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Established, unambiguous term.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Apóstolo is unambiguous and consistent across Portuguese Christian traditions.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; avoid collapsing into a merit-earned status accumulated across lifetimes.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign personal choice, not a status earned through accumulated merit across lifetimes as in Kardecist doctrine.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Standard term.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor received by faith; must be distinguished from Kardecism's doctrine of merit accumulated through moral effort across successive reincarnations.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor received by faith.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Standard proper name.

  ROM.11.17-24

• 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.11.11

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; Romans 8:28 is especially vulnerable to being read through the Kardecist 'lei de causa e efeito,' an impersonal karma-like moral law governing a spirit's progress across reincarnations.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance, not the Kardecist 'lei de causa e efeito,' an impersonal moral law governing a spirit's progress across reincarnations that functions similarly to karma but originates in 19th-century French Spiritism rather than Hindu thought.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: right standing before God granted through faith.

  ROM.11.11

• 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.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

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

  ROM.11.11

• 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.11.17-24