Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of filial intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; retain the transliteration rather than reducing it to formal পিতা alone.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Common Assamese পোহনিয়া (fostering/rearing) can imply a lesser domestic-help or informal status; the fuller phrase makes clear this is full son-status with complete inheritance rights, not an informal arrangement.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance based on God's unchanging character, not karmic uncertainty about one's accumulated merit or the outcome of one's next rebirth.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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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.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called by God.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, tribe, or accumulated karmic-spiritual status.
ROM.8.1
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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.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not karma-determined destiny or impersonal fate.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not fate (ভাগ্য/কপাল) or karma-determined destiny.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature, once.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER অৱতাৰ.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer offered on behalf of others through a single mediator, Christ.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the meditative calm sought through naam-kirtan or japa.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational covenant peace through justification, not the meditative or devotional calm sought through naam-kirtan and japa.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from ritual worship (puja) directed at an image or from petitions channeled through a Satradhikar.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care, not impersonal karma-law or fate.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive governance.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: NEVER পুনৰ্জন্ম (rebirth into a new body within সংসাৰ, the rebirth cycle).
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29