Passage
Romans 10
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Use language of proclamation and witness rather than confrontation, given the strong existing devotional identity of the Duggar region's temple and pilgrimage culture.
ROM.10.14-15
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; the object of faith must always be specified, distinct from generalized religious devotion (shraddha) directed at any of the region's actively worshipped deities.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Glossary Term
Faith
भरोसा (trust/confidence) is preferred over श्रद्धा because it more naturally takes a specific personal object in everyday Dogri usage.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament); not a cyclical cosmic pattern and not analogous to a vow-and-boon fulfillment cycle.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; established descriptive rendering.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from general positive news and from the specific 'good news' of a granted wish at a shrine; the gospel is the unique proclamation of salvation through Christ crucified and risen.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Gospel
खरी खबर ('true/good news,' using Dogri's own everyday word for 'true/genuine') is preferred over borrowing सुसमाचार directly from Hindi Christian usage.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer made on behalf of others; must be kept distinct from the mediated petitionary practice associated with pilgrimage vows at regional shrines.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Jesus
यीशु follows regional North Indian Bible-translation convention; confirm against the BSI Dogri Bible for the exact settled form.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Justification
CRITICAL: a compound phrase is required to carry the forensic, once-for-all legal-declaration sense; it must never be abbreviated to mere forgiveness, which loses the 'declared righteous' dimension central to Romans 4.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic Law/Torah.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Lord
CRITICAL: प्रभु is preferred over महाराजा (maharaja), the title of the historic Dogra rulers who patronized the Raghunath Mandir and Bahu Fort temple; using a dynastic royal title for Christ risks framing his Lordship as a political-historical kind of rule rather than exclusive, supreme divine Lordship.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Lordship of Christ
CRITICAL: exclusive, supreme Lordship.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from mediated petitionary practice associated with pilgrimage and shrine vows.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; distinct from astrological prediction.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
CRITICAL: धरमीपन must be explicitly taught as right standing before God received through faith, not धरम in the sense of the inherited social and lineage-bound duties historically associated with Dogra Rajput identity and honor (izzat).
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Salvation
CRITICAL: never मुक्ति (liberation from rebirth) and never framed as a wish granted through a shrine vow.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Salvation
CRITICAL: उद्धार (deliverance by God through Christ) must never collapse into मुक्ति (liberation from samsara) or into the boon-granting logic of the Vaishno Devi mannat economy, in which a wish is fulfilled in exchange for a vow or pilgrimage.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges caste and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy; must be translated with theological clarity, not softened to accommodate honor-culture sensitivities.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Universal Scope of the Gospel
No caste, lineage, or honor-rank barrier to the gospel; retain unqualified universality even against Dogra Rajput culture's strong lineage-honor (izzat) stratification.
ROM.10.12-13