Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

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

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

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

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts a karma-merit worldview.

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

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not a temporary divine appearance as in some Puranic avatar narratives.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not meditative or devotional calm.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational covenant peace through justification, not meditative or devotional calm achievable through ritual practice.

  ROM.5.1