Passage
Romans 1
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Glossary Term
Apostle
Established Assamese Christian term for an authorized, sent messenger.
ROM.1.1
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Doctrine
Apostleship
Risk: reducing apostleship to a generic Satradhikar (guru-successor) or spiritual-teacher role within the Ekasarana institutional structure.
ROM.1.1
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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.1.1, ROM.1.6-7
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called by God.
ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ, not merely social association or Satra-community membership.
ROM.1.12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Relational covenant bond, more than a business contract (চুক্তি).
ROM.1.3
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Glossary Term
David
Established Assamese Bible Society proper-name form.
ROM.1.3
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; there is no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept in Ekasarana or wider Assamese Vaishnavite tradition.
ROM.1.3
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: Co-equal divine nature, not divine promotion, guru-elevation, or a highly realized devotee.
ROM.1.4
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's sovereign call must be distinguished from a devotee's own initiative in taking naam (the Ekasarana practice of formally adopting devotion to the one deity) and from karma-determined destiny.
ROM.1.1, ROM.1.6-7
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use সোঁৱৰোৱা/মিনতি (entreaty) for beseeching; উৎসাহিত কৰা (encourage) for building up.
ROM.1.12
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the devotional surrender (bhakti) practiced toward any chosen deity within the Ekasarana naam tradition.
ROM.1.17
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust placed in a specific object (Christ/God); must always be tied to its object in context.
ROM.1.17
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; সমাজ (society/community) is too generic-civic for this theological sense.
ROM.1.12
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern in which a deity repeatedly descends age after age to restore dharma.
ROM.1.2-4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant presence and honor.
ROM.1.4
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Glossary Term
God
ঈশ্বৰ is the standard Assamese Bible Society term for the one true God.
ROM.1.4
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from ordinary good news or an Ekasarana Dharma naam-proclamation.
ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Established Assamese Bible Society (ABS) term, shared with the Bengali-Assamese Christian tradition.
ROM.1.1, ROM.1.16
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Doctrine
Humanity of Christ
Real, physical human nature, not a temporary appearance or illusory form as some Puranic avatar narratives describe a deity's assumed body.
ROM.1.3
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature, once.
ROM.1.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER অৱতাৰ.
ROM.1.3
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the Ekasarana tradition's own foundational text, the Bhagavata Purana as rendered in Sankardev's Assamese Bhagavata -- itself treated with near-canonical devotional authority in Namghar worship.
ROM.1.2
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Glossary Term
Jesus
Assamese Bible Society standard form, in continuous use since the 1819 Serampore Assamese New Testament.
ROM.1.4
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Glossary Term
Justification
Compound phrase required; no single Assamese word carries the forensic 'declared righteous' sense.
ROM.1.16
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Glossary Term
Law
Torah/Mosaic law.
ROM.1.2-4
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Glossary Term
Lord
Established Assamese Christian term.
ROM.1.4
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Doctrine
Lordship of Christ
CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 -- 'Jesus is Lord' is the salvation confession.
ROM.1.4
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term, established across Assamese Christian usage.
ROM.1.3-4
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.
ROM.1.3-4
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Glossary Term
Mission
Describes the activity plainly (proclaiming the good news) rather than importing মিছন, which in Assam carries loaded associations with 19th-century American Baptist Mission institutions among tribal populations and can read as foreign/colonial to a Hindu-Assamese audience.
ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Cultural sensitivity: American Baptist Mission history among Assam's tribal populations gives 'mission' loaded institutional connotations for a Hindu-Assamese audience.
ROM.1.5, ROM.1.13-14
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.1.12
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Doctrine
Obedience of Faith
Obedience that flows from faith, not naam-dharma ritual observance or duty-based religious compliance that earns standing.
ROM.1.5
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Glossary Term
Obedience Of Faith
Romans 1:5 and 16:26.
ROM.1.5
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Glossary Term
Power Of God
Unlike Hindi, Assamese শক্তি does not carry as dominant a personified-goddess (Shakti-worship) association in ordinary register and is the natural, unavoidable word for 'power' in Assamese theological usage; still, always pair with ঈশ্বৰৰ (of God) to anchor it to God's own power rather than an impersonal cosmic force.
ROM.1.16
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Doctrine
Power of God for Salvation
Always paired with ঈশ্বৰৰ (of God) to anchor to God's own power, not an impersonal or personified cosmic force.
ROM.1.16
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological calculation (গণনা).
ROM.1.2-4
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson; distinguish from astrologer/fortune-teller (জ্যোতিষী).
ROM.1.2
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: NEVER পুনৰ্জন্ম (rebirth into a new body within সংসাৰ, the rebirth cycle).
ROM.1.4
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection.
ROM.1.4
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
CRITICAL: Never ধৰ্ম -- in Assamese as in Hindi/Bengali this denotes cosmic/social duty (and in the Ekasarana context, the specific religious order founded by Sankardev).
ROM.1.16
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Doctrine
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
All believers are saints; not an elite class of especially devoted bhaktas or ascetic Satra residents.
ROM.1.7
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Doctrine
Salvation
CRITICAL: Never মুক্তি or মোক্ষ.
ROM.1.16
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Glossary Term
Salvation
CRITICAL: NEVER মুক্তি or মোক্ষ -- both denote liberation from the cycle of rebirth (সংসাৰ), the goal shared across Assamese Vaishnavite, Shaivite, and Shakta practice.
ROM.1.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.
ROM.1.3
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the Satra tradition's monastic renunciation (celibate bhakats who withdraw from ordinary life within a Satra institution).
ROM.1.1
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression before a personal God, distinguished from ritual impurity (অশুচিতা) and from an impersonal karmic debt.
ROM.1.18
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required.
ROM.1.4
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship.
ROM.1.4
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Doctrine
Spiritual Gifts
Spirit-given enablements, not merit-earned boons (বৰ) granted for austerity or devotion.
ROM.1.11
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Glossary Term
Spiritual Gifts
বৰ alone carries the Puranic sense of a boon granted for austerity or devotion; always pair with আত্মিক (spiritual) to mark it as a Spirit-given enablement, not an earned or bargained-for boon.
ROM.1.11
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Doctrine
Thanksgiving
Standard term.
ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21
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Glossary Term
Thanksgiving
Standard term; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.1.8, ROM.1.21
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste-based spiritual hierarchy.
ROM.1.18
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Doctrine
Universal Scope of the Gospel
No caste, tribal, or ethnic barrier to the gospel.
ROM.1.16