Passage
Romans 9
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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.9.4
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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.9.4
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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.9.4
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called, kept structurally parallel to balaw kana (called).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A provisional descriptive compound ('a given word/promise') for a relational covenant bond; confirm this rendering's exact naturalness with a Santali-speaking theologian, as no crystallized single covenant-theology term is attested in currently available Santali Christian literature.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper-name transliteration, following regional Bible-translation convention; confirm exact Santali form against a current published Santali Scripture edition.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Sarnaism, though the strong Santal cultural emphasis on clan (paris) lineage gives 'seed of David' language a point of natural resonance to build from.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: full, co-equal divine nature; must not be softened into 'a great bonga' or 'a specially favored spirit within the jaher pantheon.'
ROM.9.5
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor and presence.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: Isor (a regional loanword ultimately from Sanskrit-derived Ishwar, attested in Christian usage across several Munda and Adivasi-language Bible translations) is used here provisionally rather than the indigenous high-god candidates Marang Buru or Sing Bonga, to avoid presenting the biblical God as simply an existing bonga under a new name.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: transliterated term, following regional Bible-translation convention.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus; it must not be presented as one figure among the many bongas recognized in Sarnaism's spirit-world.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; a provisional descriptive phrase conveying physical lineage, resonating with the strong Santal cultural emphasis on clan (paris) and lineage identity, but requiring explicit Old Testament covenant background since there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Sarnaism.
ROM.9.5