Passage
Romans 5
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Doctrine
Faith
ایمان is shared vocabulary with the six articles of Islamic faith; every occurrence must make explicit that the object of saving faith is personal trust in Christ specifically, not creedal assent to a list of beliefs.
ROM.5.1-2
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Glossary Term
Faith
ایمان is shared vocabulary with Islamic theology (belief in Allah, his angels, his books, his messengers, the last day, and divine decree -- the six articles of iman) and is not rejected, since it is also the settled Urdu Christian Bible term; however, every occurrence must make the object of faith explicit (trust in Christ specifically), since ایمان's Islamic usage names assent to a creedal list rather than personal trust in a specific mediator.
ROM.5.1-2
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor apart from works, distinguished from the Islamic soteriological framework in which Allah's rahmat (mercy) operates alongside a deeds-weighed-at-judgment (mizan, the scales) system rather than apart from it.
ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21
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Glossary Term
Grace
فضل is the established Urdu Christian Bible term for unmerited divine favor.
ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21
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Doctrine
Humanity of Christ
Islamic theology broadly affirms Isa's full humanity (he is a human prophet, born miraculously of Mary but not divine); this doctrine is comparatively low-friction on its own, but must not be used to imply agreement on Christ's nature overall, since Christian orthodoxy holds full humanity AND full deity together, which Islamic theology rejects.
ROM.5.15
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational and forensic peace with God through justification.
ROM.5.1
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, forensic reconciliation through justification -- a useful point of linguistic contact with salaam/islam's own root meaning (submission/peace), but the specific mechanism (justification through Christ) goes beyond that root-word association.
ROM.5.1