Passage
Romans 9
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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.9.4
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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.9.4
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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.9.4
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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.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the state of being called.
ROM.9.11-12
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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.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper-name transliteration, following regional Bible-translation convention.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: full, co-equal divine nature; must not be softened into 'a great spirit-being among the Kherai pantheon' or 'a specially favored elder-spirit.'
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
Must be distinguished from a doudini being ritually 'called'/seized by a deity during Kherai trance.
ROM.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.11-12
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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.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
God's radiant honor and presence.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
CRITICAL: ईश्वर (a Sanskrit/Assamese loan, standard across most Bodo Christian usage) is deliberately preferred over बाथौबुरै (Bathoubwrai, the aniconic supreme deity of traditional Bathou worship, represented by the sijou plant), to avoid presenting the biblical God as simply the existing Bathou high god under a new name.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term, following regional Bible-translation convention.
ROM.9.5
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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.9.5
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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.9.5