Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15, paired with 'Pai' following Almeida precedent ('Aba, Pai').
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; lexically unambiguous.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; lexically clear, though the full-heir status should be taught explicitly.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
CRITICAL: assurance grounded in God's unchanging character and Christ's finished work stands in sharp, direct contrast to the Kardecist framework, in which a spirit can never be fully certain of its standing and must continue working out its evolution across future lives.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: Romans 1:1 (called to apostleship), 1:7 (called to be saints), 8:28-30 (effectual calling to salvation).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
As in other Catholic-heritage Romance languages, 'vocação' in Luso-Brazilian culture narrows to a call to the priesthood or consecrated religious life.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited cultural Catholic identity by birth or in a spirit's accumulated moral standing across past lives.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call to every believer must be distinguished from the narrow Catholic-culture sense of 'vocação' as a call to priesthood or religious life.
ROM.8.28-30
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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.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not a status earned through accumulated merit across lifetimes as in Kardecist doctrine.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; standard and unambiguous.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: in Brazilian Portuguese, 'encarnação'/'encarnar' is the everyday Kardecist term for a spirit taking a body for one of its successive lives, creating a direct terminological collision unique to this Language Package.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: unlike Spanish, where 'encarnação'/'encarnación' carries essentially no rival meaning, in Brazilian Portuguese 'encarnação'/'encarnar' is the everyday Kardecist term for a spirit taking on a body for one of its many successive lives.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Romans 8:26-27 and 8:34 describe the Spirit's and Christ's direct intercession.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
Relational peace with God through justification, not merely inner calm.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, covenantal peace through justification, not merely emotional tranquility.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
CRITICAL: the Spirit and Christ intercede directly for believers (Romans 8:26-27, 8:34).
ROM.8.26-27
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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.8.28-30
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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.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: NEVER reencarnação.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection, sharply distinct from the mainstream Brazilian Spiritist doctrine of reincarnation.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not the adoptive 'filhos de Deus' sense Romans 8 applies to believers.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29