Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Full legal son-status with inheritance rights.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Because Vietnamese family relationships are strongly shaped by Confucian filial duty (hiếu), this doctrine needs explicit framing that sonship here is grounded in grace and intimacy, not primarily hierarchical obligation.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance rests on God's unchanging character, not on an uncertain karmic outcome or on maintaining ancestor-veneration obligations.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
Never conflate with số phận (fixed fate/destiny), a common folk framing for a person's life path.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity is located in union with Christ, not in ancestral lineage, family religious obligation, or accumulated merit.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's personal call must be distinguished from số phận (fixed fate/destiny), a common folk framing.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not số mệnh (fixed fate) or nghiệp (karma).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not số mệnh (fixed fate/destiny).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal, relational Father.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently taking on human nature, once.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER use hóa thân alone, the standard Vietnamese Buddhist term for a bodhisattva's or deity's manifestation into a body, understood as one instance among many possible manifestations.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
CRITICAL: Never model this on cầu xin tổ tiên (petitioning deceased ancestors for blessing and protection at the family altar), a central and frequent practice in Vietnamese ancestor veneration (thờ cúng tổ tiên).
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not merely the inner calm sought through Buddhist meditation practice.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, covenantal peace secured through justification, not the inner calm sought through Buddhist meditation practice.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
CRITICAL: Never modeled on cầu xin tổ tiên (petitioning deceased ancestors for blessing at the family altar), a central and frequent Vietnamese practice.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care; never số trời (impersonal fate-dispensing 'Heaven') or nghiệp (karma).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive care; never số trời (an impersonal, fate-dispensing 'Heaven') or nghiệp (karma).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: NEVER use sự đầu thai or luân hồi (rebirth/reincarnation into a new existence within the cycle of samsara, central to Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist cosmology).
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: Bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: Full phrase required.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not a title claimed by a deified ancestor or folk-hero spirit.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29