Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ, not creedal affirmation of tawhid (ঈমান) or generalized devotional reverence (শ্রদ্ধা).

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament), not the cyclical cosmic ages of Hindu cosmology.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jewish peoples generally; established Bengali Bible term.

  ROM.3.29-30

• 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.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor from God, apart from human merit.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Established proper-name form.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic law.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

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

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God, distinct from ritual impurity (অশুচিতা) or accumulated bad karma.

  ROM.3.23

• 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.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God undermines both caste-based spiritual hierarchy and the assumption that religious-community membership alone confers safety.

  ROM.3.23