Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as a transliteration in the Zulu Bible text of Romans 8:15 ('Abha, Baba').
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
The compound phrase ('to be received/found as a child') captures full incorporation into the family.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Zulu extended-family and clan structures already carry a strong cultural sense of full belonging once someone is received into a family, a genuine asset for teaching Romans 8:15-17's full-inheritance-rights sense.
ROM.9.4
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
CRITICAL: ubizo is the correct Zulu Bible term for a divine calling, but this exact word (specifically 'ubizo lwamadlozi,' 'the calling of the ancestors') is also the standard term in traditional Zulu religion for the ancestral summons a person receives, often experienced through illness or vivid dreams, to become an isangoma (diviner-healer).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
isivumelwano ('agreement/covenant') is the standard term.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard Zulu Bible proper name form.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT narrative background explanation; the strong Zulu cultural weight placed on lineage and clan descent (inzalo) is a genuine point of contact for teaching the Davidic covenant's emphasis on descent and promise.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
No specific competing native doctrine to defend against; risk is precision of exposition, well supported by over a century of settled Zulu Bible translation tradition.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
CRITICAL: 'ubizo' is also the specific traditional term for the ancestral summons (often experienced through illness or dreams) to become an isangoma (diviner-healer).
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
CRITICAL: shares the same ubizo-terminology risk documented under Divine Calling; God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called must be kept distinct from the traditional ancestral summons to become an isangoma, and from inhlanhla (luck/fortune).
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
ukukhethwa ('to be chosen') is God's sovereign personal choice.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
uBaba (capitalized) for God as Father is standard and doctrinally clear, and resonates strongly with Zulu family and clan structures, including the honored role of a father as provider and protector, a genuine relational bridge for Romans 8's adoption language.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
inkazimulo (radiant splendor) is standard and well established.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
uNkulunkulu is the settled, universally recognized Zulu Bible term for God, but originated as a traditional high-god concept ('the Great-Great One') generally understood in indigenous belief as a distant creator largely uninvolved in ongoing daily affairs, with amadlozi as the active intermediaries.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
uMesiya is transliterated directly; uKristu (Christ) is the more common everyday title, functioning largely as Jesus' surname.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
uKristu functions as Jesus' effective surname in everyday Zulu usage; this curriculum should explicitly re-surface the specific Jewish messianic-fulfillment sense rather than assume readers still hear it in ordinary usage.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; 'inzalo kaDavide' ('offspring/lineage of David') is the recognized Bible-register form conveying physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment, resonating with the strong Zulu cultural weight placed on lineage and clan descent.
ROM.9.5