Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

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

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically.

  ROM.5.1-2

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor from God, apart from human merit.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not an illusion (as in some Hindu readings) and not the purely prophetic, non-crucified appearance Islamic Christology holds.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God secured through justification, not merely psychological calm or contentment.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace secured through justification, not Sufi-mystical inner tranquility or meditative calm.

  ROM.5.1