Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in Uzbek national/ethnic identity, which is widely fused with cultural Muslim identity in popular usage, making conversion feel like a rejection of one's people, not only a change of personal belief.

  ROM.6.1-11

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor apart from yaxshi amallar (good deeds).

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Inoyat conveys unearned favor apart from merit.

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Muqaddas = set apart for God, morally pure; the established term across Uzbek religious registers.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: 'Ruh al-Qudus,' the same phrase, is widely explained in Islamic commentary as referring to the archangel Jabroil aiding Jesus, not a co-equal divine Person.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: Must affirm real bodily death followed by bodily resurrection.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: Qur'an 4:157 denies Jesus actually died on the cross.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinguished from ritual purification (poklanish) and from Sufi ascetic self-purification practices.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Sufi asceticism or shrine-centered devotion (mazor ziyorati) practiced widely in Uzbek folk religion.

  ROM.6.22