Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not generalized devotional reverence (भक्ती) toward any chosen temple deity.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in a specific object (Christ), not generalized devotional reverence.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern of repeated avatar-descent found in Goan temple devotional narrative.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews; established Konkani/Marathi Bible term.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts a karma-merit worldview.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Deliberately different from Hindi, which rejects कृपा as too weak and prefers अनुग्रह; in the Konkani/Marathi Bible tradition कृपा is the established, doctrinally load-bearing term for unmerited grace and carries no weaker connotation here.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; established Bible-translation form.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  Torah/Mosaic law.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological prediction (भविष्यफळ).

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God, distinguished from ritual impurity (अशुद्धता) and from an impersonal karmic debt.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy present in Goan Hindu social structure (including Goud Saraswat Brahmin and other caste groupings) and any lingering Hindu-Catholic communal division.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

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

  ROM.3.23