Passage
Romans 6
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited cultural Catholic or Christian identity by birth ('soy cristiano de nacimiento') or in accumulated religious merit.
ROM.6.1-11
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor received by faith alone.
ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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Glossary Term
Grace
Gracia is standard across all Spanish Bible traditions, but Catholic catechesis historically frames grace as infused and increased through sacramental cooperation and merit, while Reina-Valera (Reformation-descended) usage stresses unmerited favor received by faith alone.
ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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Glossary Term
Holy
Set apart for God and morally pure; must be applied to all believers, not filtered through the popular-piety sense reserved for the canonized.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
Must be taught as the personal third Person of the Trinity, explicitly distinguished from ancestral or 'guide' spirits invoked in Espiritismo and Santería, both live folk-religious frameworks in parts of the Caribbean and Latin America.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
No confusion in mainstream Hispanic Catholic usage, but Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean contexts with active Espiritismo (Kardecist spiritism) and Santería, which teach the return or reincarnation of spirits, create a live syncretism risk.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; must not collapse into a penitential or purgatorial framework where holiness is progressively earned through religious acts.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; must not collapse into a penitential/purgatorial framework (indulgences, works of penance) that frames holiness as earned through accumulated religious acts.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Risk of conflation with the Catholic category of 'vida consagrada' (consecrated religious life) as a specially set-apart class, rather than the calling of every believer.
ROM.6.22