Passage
Romans 10
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Should be framed as proclamation and witness rather than confrontation, given that Bathou and Brahma Dharma communities alike are also actively engaged in their own contemporary identity-preservation and reform efforts.
ROM.10.14-15
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically; the object of faith must always be named, since बिश्वास alone could be read as devotion transferable to Bathoubwrai or the wider Kherai pantheon.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Glossary Term
Faith
बिश्वास (a Sanskrit/Assamese loan already established in Bodo Christian usage) covers belief and trust.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament fulfillment in Christ) has no ready parallel in Bathou oral tradition and should not be assimilated into Brahma Dharma's own progressive-reform narrative of Bodo religious history.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; renders 'nation/community' (जुथुद/jothaí) with a negating prefix.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from Brahma Dharma's own reform 'good tidings' rhetoric of a return to Sanskritized purity; the gospel is specifically the proclamation of salvation through Christ's death and resurrection, not a call to religious reform.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Gospel
मंगल खबर ('auspicious/good news,' built on the widely understood Assamese-Sanskrit loan मंगल) is preferred over a direct Hindi सुसमाचार borrowing, since this curriculum should read as Bodo, not as Hindi-with-Devanagari-spelling.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer/petition made on behalf of another.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Jesus
जिसु follows the Bodo Bible's established form (paralleling Assamese যীচু, Zisu).
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Justification
CRITICAL: a descriptive compound ('the declaration of being made righteous') is required; no single Bodo word carries the forensic, once-for-all legal-declaration sense.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Law
बिथान (law/rule/ordinance) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Lord
CRITICAL: प्रभु (a Sanskrit/Assamese loan already used in the Bodo Bible) is preferred specifically because it is not one of the honorific elder-titles (बर'ऐ/बुरहा, 'great old one') applied to Bathoubwrai and other Kherai-pantheon deities.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Lordship of Christ
CRITICAL: exclusive, supreme Lordship.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from petitions traditionally carried to Bathoubwrai or the Kherai pantheon through a doudini or ओझा ritual specialist.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration of what is to come; distinct from divinatory pronouncements made by a doudini in trance or an ओझा in folk-ritual practice.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
CRITICAL: धार्मिकता (built on the same Sanskrit root Brahma Dharma uses for its own reformed religious-duty system) must be explicitly defined in this curriculum as right standing before God received through faith, not the reformed community's structured code of right conduct.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Salvation
CRITICAL: this is a genuine conceptual gap, not a wrong-existing-word problem.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Salvation
CRITICAL: फोरायनाय ('being rescued/delivered') is preferred because Bathouism itself has no developed eschatological salvation concept at all -- its ritual life (Kherai puja, household sijou offerings) is oriented toward securing protection, harvest, and household prosperity in this life, not deliverance from sin or an afterlife destiny.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Must be taught with theological clarity rather than folded into contemporary Assam-region ethnic-unity rhetoric, which addresses a different (political/territorial) kind of division from the one Romans is resolving.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Universal Scope of the Gospel
No ethnic or clan barrier to the gospel; retain unqualified universality even though Bodo identity in contemporary Assam is closely tied to ethnic and territorial belonging.
ROM.10.12-13