Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not assent to the six pillars of Islamic iman in the abstract.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
İman is an Arabic loanword shared with Islamic vocabulary, where it denotes assent to the six pillars (Allah, angels, books, prophets, last day, qadar).
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT promise fulfilled uniquely in Jesus) contrasts with the Islamic pattern of successive, largely self-contained prophets each restating the same basic message; Romans' argument depends on cumulative, converging OT promise, which needs explicit unpacking.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Uluslar ('nations,' i.e.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor given apart from salih amel (righteous deeds).
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Lütuf conveys unearned favor given apart from merit.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Turkish Bible form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
Refers to the Mosaic law.
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
Günah is the standard shared term, but Islamic theology holds humans are born sinless (fitrah) and only become accountable at the age of reason through individual bad deeds; Romans' doctrine of universal, inherited sinfulness (5:12-19) needs explicit teaching support, since günah alone will not automatically carry that inherited dimension for a reader from this background.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Less socially loaded here than in caste-based contexts, but still needs to be translated with full theological clarity given contemporary geopolitical sensitivity around Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
Islamic anthropology (fitrah, humans born sinless) resists the idea of inherited, universal sinfulness; Romans' 'all have sinned' must be taught as a deliberate claim, not softened into 'most people sin sometimes.'
ROM.3.23