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      "label": "Romans 6 explicitly connects baptism into Christ with participation in his death, burial, and newness of life.",
      "classification": "SIGN",
      "definition": "Romans 6 explicitly connects baptism into Christ with participation in his death, burial, and newness of life.",
      "not_always": "This establishes the death-burial-new-life relationship in Romans 6; it does not reduce baptism to a bare symbol or establish every later baptismal theory.",
      "scope_note": "This establishes the death-burial-new-life relationship in Romans 6; it does not reduce baptism to a bare symbol or establish every later baptismal theory.",
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          "scope_limitation": "This establishes the death-burial-new-life relationship in Romans 6; it does not reduce baptism to a bare symbol or establish every later baptismal theory.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.",
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            "SANCTIFICATION"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000207",
              "osis_start": "Rom.6.3",
              "osis_end": "Rom.6.4",
              "display_label": "Romans 6:3-4",
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              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000230",
      "label": "Legacy phrase \"burial of old lifestyle\" requires refinement",
      "classification": "ANALOGY",
      "definition": "Romans 6 and Colossians 2 relate baptism to burial with Christ in his death and to resurrection/newness of life; the legacy phrase is too reductive.",
      "not_always": "This claim states the explicit death-burial-new-life relationship without resolving every sacramental or baptismal-system question.",
      "scope_note": "This claim states the explicit death-burial-new-life relationship without resolving every sacramental or baptismal-system question.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000230",
          "statement": "The inherited wording should be reclassified and expanded: Paul does not merely say that a lifestyle is buried; he describes believers as buried with Christ through baptism into death and raised to new life.",
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          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "This claim states the explicit death-burial-new-life relationship without resolving every sacramental or baptismal-system question.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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            "SOTERIOLOGY",
            "SANCTIFICATION"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000396",
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            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000397",
              "osis_start": "Col.2.12",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Colossians 2:12",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000101",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible translators and Bible.org conservative commentary contributors",
              "title": "NET Bible / Bible.org contextual controls for TSP-S3 Batch 4",
              "publication_data": "Online lexical, cultural, and contextual notes accessed 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://bible.org/",
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}