Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; distinguish from generalized devotional reverence (ഭക്തി).
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust in Christ.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament); an established doctrinal framework in Malayalam Christian teaching with low ambiguity.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
NEVER ജാതികള് for this doctrinal sense, despite its use in some older Bible translations: ജാതി is also the ordinary Malayalam word for "caste," and Kerala's own social history includes some of India's most rigid historical caste stratification.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
കൃപ is shared vocabulary with Kerala's Hindu bhakti devotional tradition, where a deity's favor toward a devotee is also understood as gift-like; every occurrence must keep the source of grace explicitly Christ's finished work, not cumulative devotion.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
കൃപ is the settled Malayalam Christian term, but it is a Sanskrit-derived word also used in Kerala's Hindu bhakti devotional tradition for a deity's favor toward a devotee.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Established proper-name form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic law; an established, long-settled Malayalam Bible term.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression before a personal God; an established, low-ambiguity term in Malayalam.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Use ജനതകള്, not ജാതികള് (which reads as "castes"), given Kerala's own caste history and the documented internal caste-heritage stratification within Malayalam Christianity itself.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines any residual caste-linked spiritual hierarchy, including within Kerala's own Christian community history.
ROM.3.23