Passage

Romans 5

• 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.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  बिश्वास (a Sanskrit/Assamese loan already established in Bodo Christian usage) covers belief and trust.

  ROM.5.1-2

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Christ's full, real humanity must not be diluted into a temporary spirit-medium's altered state as in Kherai trance possession, where the human host's own identity recedes during the ritual.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the household harmony and protection from misfortune that Bathou and Kherai offerings are meant to secure.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, judicial peace with God through justification, not the household harmony and protection from misfortune traditionally sought through Bathou and Kherai offerings.

  ROM.5.1