Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as a transliteration alongside आफा (Romans 8:15), following the pattern used by related regional Bible translations.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
A descriptive compound ('being brought into the heart/family') stands in for formal legal adoption, which is not a settled Bodo kinship category the way it is in Western law; traditional Bodo clan (afad) identity and inheritance run through birth lineage.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights, which must be explicitly taught since formal legal adoption is not a settled category in traditional Bodo clan (afad) kinship structure, where inheritance runs through birth lineage.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance based on God's unchanging character, not on maintaining an ongoing cycle of ritual offerings to secure divine favor and protection as in traditional Bathou/Kherai practice.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the state of being called.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in clan (afad) lineage, ethnic-territorial belonging, or reformed-community membership.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
Must be distinguished from a doudini being ritually 'called'/seized by a deity during Kherai trance.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; must not be reheard as भागी (impersonal fate), a framing familiar from both folk belief and Brahma Dharma's ethic.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign, personal choice; must be distinguished from भागी, a fate/fortune framing familiar from both folk belief and Brahma Dharma's Hindu-influenced ethic, which is impersonal rather than relational.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father; आफा is the ordinary Bodo word for father, chosen for its warmth and intimacy rather than an inherited deity-elder title such as बाथौबुरै.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: must be sharply distinguished from the doudini's Kherai-trance possession, in which a deity is understood to temporarily seize and speak through a human medium.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: a descriptive compound ('taking on a human body') is required.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer/petition made on behalf of another.
ROM.8.26-27
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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.8.6
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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.8.6
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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.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care; never भागी (fate).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive care; never भागी (fate).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: a descriptive phrase ('turning back to life') avoids फिन जोनोम, the rebirth/reincarnation vocabulary that entered Bodo religious discourse through Brahma Dharma's Hindu-influenced reform teaching.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection, not फिन जोनोम (rebirth), a rebirth/reincarnation concept absorbed into Bodo religious discourse through Brahma Dharma's Hindu-influenced reform teaching.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required, built on ईश्वर (see 'god' entry).
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not a lesser spirit-being's offspring as might be assumed within a populated Bathou pantheon that includes many divine and semi-divine figures.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29