Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust placed in Christ specifically, not the devotional reverence (bhakti/shraddha) a devotee might direct toward any chosen deity or Tirthankara.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; શ્રદ્ધા and ભક્તિ both carry devotional-reverence connotations from Gujarat's strong bhakti (Swaminarayan, Vaishnav) tradition that do not require the specific object of trust that વિશ્વાસ requires.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, one-time historical fulfillment, not the cyclical cosmic time shared by both Hindu yuga cycles and Jain cosmology's beginningless, endless wheel of rising and falling ages.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; વિદેશીઓ (foreigners) is too narrowly national.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor stands against both the karma-merit economy of popular Hindu devotion and the Jain doctrine of nirjara, the shedding of karmic matter through the practitioner's own austerity; grace must be taught as favor received, not effort rewarded.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
CRITICAL: કૃપા is the standard Gujarati Christian term, but in Gujarat's bhakti devotional speech it also names a guru's or deity's favor cultivated through devotion, and Jain merit-language has no concept of unearned favor at all.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
Torah/Mosaic law.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological forecasting (ભવિષ્યફળ).
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression against a personal God who judges and forgives.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges caste and community-based spiritual hierarchy; must be translated with full clarity, not softened.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty and equally invited; undermines caste-based and attainment-based spiritual hierarchy alike.
ROM.3.23