Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory; not humanitarian or educational service divorced from the gospel, a distinction worth stressing given the historical association of mission work with schools and clinics among the Bodo.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; not merely village- or clan-based social association.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
मण्डली (a Sanskrit/Assamese loan established in Bodo Christian usage) refers to the gathered assembly of believers.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community, not a village ritual institution or a reform-movement organizational structure of the Brahma Dharma type.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A relational covenant bond, built on gwsw (heart) and thari (a binding/tie); confirm this compound's exact naturalness with a Bodo-speaking theologian, as no crystallized single covenant-theology term is attested in currently available Bodo Christian literature.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper-name transliteration, following regional Bible-translation convention.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Bathou tradition, though the strong Bodo cultural value placed on clan (afad) lineage gives 'seed of David' language a point of natural resonance to build from.
ROM.15.12
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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.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use for encouragement/building up; use बिनयनाय for entreaty/pleading contexts.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
A descriptive term for shared heart/mind and mutual participation in Christ; confirm regional naturalness with native speakers given limited established Bodo Christian devotional vocabulary for this specific sense.
ROM.15.24
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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.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; renders 'nation/community' (जुथुद/jothaí) with a negating prefix.
ROM.15.7-12
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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.15.19-20
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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.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
पबित्र (an Assamese/Sanskrit loan) conveys moral purity and being set apart for God.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: पबित्र आत्था must always be used in full.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Bathou tradition has no fixed written scripture (its teaching is oral and ritual); Brahma Dharma, by contrast, produced its own reform literature.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer/petition made on behalf of another.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel; must be distinguished from territorial-political framing given Bodo identity's strong contemporary association with the Bodoland Territorial Region.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; should be explicitly distinguished from any territorial or ethnic-political framing, given the Bodoland Territorial Region's own strong contemporary association of Bodo identity with territorial political claims.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
बिथान (law/rule/ordinance) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term, following regional Bible-translation convention.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus; it must not be presented as one figure among the many deities and spirit-mediators recognized in the Bathou pantheon.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
'The task/responsibility of the good news.' Given the history of American Baptist mission work among the Bodo (from the mid-19th century) becoming entangled in local memory with colonial-era administration, frame evangelism as the church's own ongoing calling rather than as a foreign historical project.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Given the history of American Baptist mission work among the Bodo becoming entangled in local memory with colonial-era administration, frame evangelism as the church's own calling rather than a foreign historical project.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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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.15.30-32
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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.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson; must not be confused with ओझा, a shamanic ritual specialist/diviner figure recognized in traditional Bodo village religious life, distinct from the doudini's Kherai-specific oracular role.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; distinct from the external, occasional ritual purification performed before Bathou and Kherai ceremonies.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; distinct from the household and courtyard cleansing rites that precede Bathou and Kherai ceremonies, which are ritual/external rather than internal and moral.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; a descriptive phrase conveying physical lineage, resonating with the strong emphasis on clan (afad) and lineage identity in traditional Bodo kinship structure.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the ritual purity separations surrounding Kherai puja preparation, which are occasional and ceremonial.
ROM.15.16
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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.15.7-12