Passage
Romans 3
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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.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
बिश्वास (a Sanskrit/Assamese loan already established in Bodo Christian usage) covers belief and trust.
ROM.3.22-28
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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.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; renders 'nation/community' (जुथुद/jothaí) with a negating prefix.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor cuts against two live currents at once: traditional Bathou/Kherai offerings understood as reciprocal exchange for divine protection, and Brahma Dharma's reformed merit-based ethic.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
CRITICAL: a descriptive compound meaning roughly 'freely-given gift' is required because both live comparative frameworks pull toward a transactional reading: traditional Bathou practice offers goods to Bathoubwrai and the Kherai pantheon in exchange for protection and prosperity (a reciprocal do-ut-des logic), while Brahma Dharma's reformed ethic frames divine favor in terms of accumulated पुण्य (merit).
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
बिथान (law/rule/ordinance) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.3.21
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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.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
गुनाह (a widely borrowed term across Assam-region languages) conveys moral transgression before a personal God.
ROM.3.23
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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.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God; retain universal language without softening, even where it sits uneasily alongside reformed Brahma Dharma teaching that frames spiritual progress as an achievable communal reform project.
ROM.3.23