Passage

Romans 8

• Glossary Term

  Abba

  Preserve the Aramaic transliteration in Romans 8:15.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Glossary Term

  Adoption

  দত্তক নেওয়া (the common word for adopting a child) can carry a sense of reduced or provisional status in Bengali family custom; দত্তকপুত্রতা emphasizes full son-status with complete inheritance rights.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Adoption into God's Family

  Full son-status with complete inheritance rights.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Assurance of Salvation

  Assurance rests in God's unchanging character, not karmic uncertainty about a future rebirth nor the orthodox Islamic position that one's final judgment outcome cannot be known with certainty before death.

  ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39

• Glossary Term

  Called

  Context-sensitive: Romans 1:1 = called to apostleship; 1:7 = called to be saints; 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  Noun form for the act or state of being called by God.

  ROM.8.28-30

• 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.8.1

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's sovereign call must be distinguished from Sufi-inflected notions of a mystical spiritual calling and from a Hindu soul's dharma-path unfolding.

  ROM.8.28-30

• 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.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Election

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

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Father

  God as personal Father.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: the eternal Son permanently assuming human nature.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use অবতার (a Hindu deity's temporary, repeatable descent).

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer on behalf of others before God.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Glossary Term

  Peace

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

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

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

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God in Christ's name.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Doctrine

  Providence

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

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Providence

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

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

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

  ROM.8.11

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

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

  ROM.8.11

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: Full phrase required.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not biological descent.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29