Passage

Romans 8

• Glossary Term

  Abba

  Aramaic term of filial intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; retain the transliteration rather than reducing it to formal पिता alone.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Glossary Term

  Adoption

  The fuller phrase ('taking as a full/adopted son') is preferred over the bare verb दत्तक घेणें to foreground complete inheritance rights, since Konkani inheritance custom can otherwise read an adopted child as lower-status.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Adoption into God's Family

  Full son-status with complete inheritance rights.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Assurance of Salvation

  Assurance based on God's unchanging character, not karmic uncertainty about one's accumulated merit or next rebirth.

  ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39

• Glossary Term

  Called

  Context-sensitive: in 1:1, called to apostleship; in 1:7, called to be saints; in 8:28-30, effectual calling to salvation.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  Noun form for the act/state of being called by God; shares its verb root with 'called' for consistency.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, community (Hindu/Catholic), or accumulated karmic-spiritual status.

  ROM.8.1

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's sovereign call must be distinguished from human religious seeking and from karma/fate-determined destiny (नशीब/प्रारब्ध), both common in Goan Hindu religious idiom.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not karma-determined destiny or impersonal fate.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign personal choice, not fate (नशीब/प्रारब्ध) or karma-determined destiny.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Father

  God as personal Father.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature, once.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER अवतार.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer offered on behalf of others through Christ as sole mediator; शिफारस (recommendation/patronage-favor) is too socially transactional for this theological sense.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Glossary Term

  Peace

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

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

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

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from ritual worship (puja) directed at an image and, for Catholic-background readers, from petitions directed to saints.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care, not impersonal fate or karma-law (नशीब/प्रारब्ध).

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive provision and governance -- the established Konkani/Marathi theological term.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation within the rebirth cycle).

  ROM.8.11

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.8.11

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: full phrase required, using the Konkani masculine possessive -चो (distinct from Marathi -चा/Hindi -का).

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29