Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ; not generalized religious devotion to any deity.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Trust in a specific person (Christ/God); not generalized religious devotion.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (OT → NT); not cyclical cosmic fulfillment as in Hindu yuga cycles.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews; established BSI term.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts karma worldview.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Must convey unmerited favor apart from any human merit.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; BSI established form.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  Torah/Mosaic law.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration; distinct from astrological predictions (भविष्यफल).

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste/ethnic spiritual hierarchy.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste-based spiritual hierarchy.

  ROM.3.23