Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the devotional surrender (bhakti) practiced toward any chosen deity within the Ekasarana naam tradition.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust placed in a specific object (Christ/God); must always be tied to its object in context.

  ROM.3.22-28

• 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.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews; established Bible Society term.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts both a karma-merit worldview and the boon-for-devotion transaction (বৰ) common in Puranic narrative.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor apart from human merit.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; established Bible Society form.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  Torah/Mosaic law.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological calculation (গণনা).

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God, distinguished from ritual impurity (অশুচিতা) and from an impersonal karmic debt.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste and ethnic spiritual hierarchy still present in Assamese Hindu social structure.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste-based spiritual hierarchy.

  ROM.3.23