Passage

Romans 8

• Glossary Term

  Abba

  Preserve the Aramaic transliteration in Romans 8:15.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Glossary Term

  Adoption

  ਗੋਦ ਲੈਣਾ (the common word for adopting a child) can imply reduced status; ਦੱਤਕ ਪੁੱਤਰਤਾ emphasizes full son-status with complete inheritance rights.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Adoption into God's Family

  Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; guard against a lower-status reading of adopted children drawn from customary family practice.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Assurance of Salvation

  Assurance rests in God's unchanging character, not in the uncertain, gradual progress toward mukti through accumulated meditative merit and Guru's grace over possibly many lifetimes.

  ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39

• 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

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  Noun form for the act or state of being called by God.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, qaum-identity, or family religious heritage — a high-stakes claim where Punjabi religious identity is usually inherited and communal.

  ROM.8.1

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's sovereign, personal call must be distinguished from a devotee's self-initiated spiritual seeking and from impersonal ਕਿਸਮਤ (fate).

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; distinguish from ਕਿਸਮਤ (impersonal fate) and from generic submission to divine order.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign, personal choice; never ਕਿਸਮਤ (fate), a Perso-Arabic loanword used constantly in everyday Punjabi regardless of the speaker's religion.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Father

  God as personal Father.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: never ਅਵਤਾਰ.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use ਅਵਤਾਰ.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Mediating prayer on behalf of others before God.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification.

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace secured through justification, not the meditative equipoise (ਸਹਿਜ) attained through Naam-simran.

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God in Christ's name, distinct from petitioning through a Guru's mediation or at a Sant's dera.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER use ਪੁਨਰ-ਜਨਮ or ਆਵਾਗਵਣ — the latter is the specific Gurbani term for the cycle of transmigration from which Sikh ਮੁਕਤੀ liberates.

  ROM.8.11

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.8.11

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: full phrase required.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship, and not a spiritual lineage relationship analogous to a Guru's chosen successor.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29