Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not primarily in clan, lineage, or ethnic identity, however culturally significant these legitimately remain.

  ROM.6.1-11

• Doctrine

  Grace

  CRITICAL: umusa is also the everyday word for kindness within ubuntu, the deeply held ethic of reciprocal communal obligation, in which kindness shown is typically understood within a web of mutual expectation.

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: umusa is the correct and established term, but is also the everyday word for kindness, graciousness, and generosity within ubuntu, the deeply held Zulu and broader Southern African ethic of reciprocal communal obligation ('umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu' — a person is a person through other persons).

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  -ngcwele is the established, well-recognized Christian term for holy/sacred.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  uMoya oNgcwele is the settled Trinitarian term and must always be used in full.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  ukuvuka kwabafileyo ('the rising of the dead') is the established, doctrinally precise phrase.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  No competing native reincarnation doctrine exists, though the ongoing presence of amadlozi (ancestors) as active spirits among the living should not be confused with Christ's unique, bodily, historical resurrection.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  CRITICAL: must be sharply distinguished from ukuhlanjwa, traditional ritual cleansing performed to remove spiritual defilement or the influence of harmful spirits, often administered by an inyanga or isangoma — an external ritual process quite different from the Spirit's internal, ongoing moral transformation described in Romans 6-8.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  CRITICAL: ukungcweliswa (the process of being made holy by the Spirit) is correct, but must be sharply distinguished from ukuhlanjwa, the traditional Zulu ritual cleansing performed to remove spiritual defilement or the influence of harmful spirits, often administered by an inyanga or isangoma.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be read through the lens of traditional initiation processes (such as the training and setting-apart of an isangoma following ubizo).

  ROM.6.22