Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not assent to the pillars of Islamic iimaan in the abstract.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Iimaan is shared with Islamic vocabulary (the pillars of belief).
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment culminating in Christ contrasts with a pattern of successive, largely self-contained prophets each restating the same core message; Romans' cumulative, converging OT argument needs explicit unpacking.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Quruumaha ('the nations,' i.e.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor apart from camal wanaagsan (good deeds).
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Nimco conveys unearned favor apart from merit.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Somali Bible form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
HIGH: Somali lacks a clean separate word the way some languages distinguish civil/secular law from Islamic law; sharci is used for both.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration pointing to Christ.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Dembi is the standard shared term, but Islamic anthropology (fitrah, humans born sinless) resists inherited universal sinfulness; Romans 5:12-19's doctrine of inherited sin needs explicit teaching support.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Elevated above Medium in this Language Package because clan (qabiil) division, not ethnicity in the abstract, is the primary social fault line Somali readers will map this doctrine onto; a soft or vague rendering risks being heard as an abstract theological point rather than the direct challenge to clan hierarchy Paul intends.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
Islamic anthropology (fitrah, humans born sinless) resists inherited, universal sinfulness; Romans' 'all have sinned' must be taught as a deliberate claim, not softened into 'most people sin sometimes.'
ROM.3.23