Passage

Romans 5

• 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.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  भरोसा (trust/confidence) is preferred over श्रद्धा because it more naturally takes a specific personal object in everyday Dogri usage.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor must be distinguished from the mannat (vow) economy surrounding the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage, in which a wish is granted in exchange for a vow or offering -- an unusually concrete, currently active transactional model in this region.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: a descriptive compound ('favor given without being earned') is required because Duggar popular devotion has an unusually concrete and active transactional model close at hand: the mannat (vow) economy surrounding the Vaishno Devi shrine, where devotees pledge offerings or pilgrimages in exchange for a granted wish.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not a temporary appearance-form as in an avatar-descent narrative.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the sense of a wish or worry resolved through a granted vow at a shrine.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, judicial peace through justification, not the resolution of a personal worry through a granted vow.

  ROM.5.1