Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the region's Ram-Sita or Shiva bhakti devotional reverence, however sincere.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Trust placed in a specific person (Christ), not generalized devotional reverence.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern (yuga cycles) in which a deity periodically descends to restore dharma, as in the region's own Ram-avatar narrative.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts a karma-merit worldview and must also resist being explained through Sita's self-sacrificial virtue, which is an achieved-merit exemplar rather than a picture of unearned favor.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Must convey unmerited favor apart from human merit, directly countering the karma-merit worldview common to Maithil Vaishnava and Shaiva devotional practice alike.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; follows 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 (भविष्यफल).

  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 and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy embedded in Maithil Brahmin social structure.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

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

  ROM.3.23