Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

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

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

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

  ROM.5.1-2

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• 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.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 the domestic-harmony ideal (gharelu sukh-shanti) associated with the Sita-Ram household model held up regionally as the picture of peace.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational covenant peace through justification, not the domestic-harmony ideal associated with the celebrated Sita-Ram household.

  ROM.5.1