Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as a transliteration alongside apu (Romans 8:15), following the pattern used by related regional Bible translations.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
A provisional descriptive compound ('given/treated as a child'); formal legal adoption is not a well-documented category in traditional Santal clan (paris) kinship structure, which is organized around exogamous patrilineal clans.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights, which must be explicitly taught since formal legal adoption is not a well-documented category in traditional Santal clan (paris) kinship structure, which is organized around exogamous patrilineal descent.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance based on God's unchanging character; not on maintaining an ongoing cycle of ritual offerings to the bongas to secure favor and protection.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called, kept structurally parallel to balaw kana (called).
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not clan (paris) lineage, village ritual-community standing, or Adivasi ethnic identity as such.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call must be distinguished from a person being ritually summoned by a bonga through an Ojha or Naeke, and handled with care given the serious social sensitivity of witchcraft-accusation (daain) language in Santal communities.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not an inherited communal ritual relationship with a particular protective bonga.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign, personal choice; must be distinguished from any sense of a village or clan being under a particular bonga's protection by tradition, which is a matter of inherited communal ritual relationship, not personal, relational choice by a sovereign God.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; apu is the ordinary Santali word for father, chosen for its warmth and intimacy rather than an existing bonga-elder title such as Marang Buru.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: must be sharply distinguished from bonga possession, in which a spirit is understood to temporarily seize or work through a human medium during an Ojha's ritual.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: a provisional descriptive compound ('came in a human body') stands in for a single fixed theological term, which does not exist in currently available Santali Christian literature.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer/petition made on behalf of others (Romans 8:26-27); must be kept distinct from petitions traditionally carried to the bongas through a Naeke's sacrifice or an Ojha's ritual mediation on a household's or village's behalf.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the community and ritual harmony with the bongas and the jaher that Sarnaism's offerings are meant to maintain.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, judicial peace through justification, not the community and ritual harmony with the bongas and the jaher maintained through offerings.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from petitions traditionally carried to the bongas through a Naeke's sacrifice or an Ojha's ritual mediation.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care; Romans 8:28 should be taught as relational confidence in a personal God, not attributed to maintaining good standing with the bongas through consistent ritual observance.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive care; Romans 8:28 should be taught as relational confidence in a personal God, not attributed to maintaining good standing with the bongas through consistent ritual observance.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: a provisional descriptive phrase ('rising alive again from death') rather than a single fixed technical term, reflecting the thinner translation tradition.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required, built on Isor (see 'god' entry).
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not a lesser spirit-being's offspring as might be assumed within a populated bonga pantheon that includes many recognized nature and ancestor spirits.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29