Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited caste, religious community of birth, or family honor status — a high-stakes claim in a region where religious identity is usually inherited and communal rather than individually chosen.

  ROM.6.1-11

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor from God, apart from human merit.

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Set apart for God and morally pure.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: Never ব্রহ্ম (the impersonal Hindu Absolute) or পরমাত্মা (the universal Self).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER use পুনর্জন্ম (reincarnation into a new body within the samsara cycle).

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, not Hindu ritual purification (shuddhi) or Islamic ritual cleanliness (taharah).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; distinct from Hindu ritual purification (shuddhi).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Hindu sannyasa (world-renunciation) or Sufi ascetic withdrawal.

  ROM.6.22