Passage
Romans 9
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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.9.4
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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.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights.
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
Noun form for the act/state of being called by God.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Relational covenant bond, more than a business contract (চুক্তি).
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Established Assamese Bible Society proper-name form.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: Co-equal divine nature, not divine promotion, guru-elevation, or a highly realized devotee.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not fate (ভাগ্য/কপাল) or karma-determined destiny.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant presence and honor.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
ঈশ্বৰ is the standard Assamese Bible Society term for the one true God.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term, established across Assamese Christian usage.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.
ROM.9.5