Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity is found in union with Christ, not in caste, community, or accumulated karmic merit.

  ROM.6.1-11

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Set apart for God and morally pure; શુદ્ધ leans toward ritual or ascetic purity (relevant given Jain purity practices) rather than relational holiness.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: never પરમાત્મા (Hindu Universal Self) or બ્રહ્મ (Brahman).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER પુનર્જન્મ.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, not tapa (self-imposed ascetic austerity), the primary Jain mechanism for purifying the soul.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  Spirit-worked holiness, not ritual purification or તપ (ascetic austerity) — the Jain path to purifying the soul is precisely self-imposed austerity, the opposite mechanism from sanctification by the Spirit.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be read through Jain sannyasa/diksha, the formal renunciation of worldly life through vows and monastic ordination.

  ROM.6.22