Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ, not generic belief in the spirit world or confidence in one's own moral progress.
ROM.3.22-28
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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.3.22-28
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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.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Standard term.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor received by faith; must be distinguished from Kardecism's doctrine of merit accumulated through moral effort across successive reincarnations.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Unmerited favor received by faith.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Standard proper name.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic law/Torah.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, not psicografia, the well-known Kardecist practice of mediums transcribing messages purportedly from the dead.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression before a personal, holy God requiring atonement in this life, not a correctable 'erro' to be worked off across future incarnations as Kardecism frames moral failure.
ROM.3.23
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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.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God in this life; retain unqualified universal language rather than a Kardecist reading where accountability is distributed and resolved across multiple lifetimes.
ROM.3.23