Passage

Romans 11

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  Established Bengali Christian term: an authorized, sent-out messenger with delegated apostolic authority, not a generic messenger.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Risk of reducing apostleship to a generic spiritual-guide role resembling a Sufi pir or Hindu guru rather than an authorized, sent apostolic office.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not karma-determined destiny, nor an impersonal decree divorced from relationship.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign, personal choice; not karma-determined fate (ভাগ্য/নিয়তি/কর্মফল).

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jewish peoples generally; established Bengali Bible term.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor contradicts both a Hindu karma-merit accounting framework and an Islamic salvation-by-weighed-deeds framework; must always reinforce "apart from human merit."

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor from God, apart from human merit.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Established proper-name form.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Compound phrase required; no single Bengali word carries the forensic "declared righteous" sense.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care, not fate (নিয়তি/ভাগ্য) and not an impersonal predetermination read apart from relationship with God.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance of all things; never fate (ভাগ্য) or impersonal destiny (নিয়তি).

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: NEVER use ধর্ম.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: never মুক্তি, মোক্ষ, or নাজাত.

  ROM.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use মুক্তি or মোক্ষ — these carry the Hindu sense of liberation from the cycle of rebirth.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste and communal-identity hierarchy; must be translated with full theological clarity, not softened into vague tolerance language.

  ROM.11.17-24