Passage
Romans 10
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Frame as proclamation and witness rather than confrontation, given the active, currently practiced state of both Sanamahi revival and Vaishnava devotional life in the Imphal Valley.
ROM.10.14-15
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; the object of faith must always be named, distinguished from ভক্তি (bhakti), the specific devotional-love practice central to Manipuri Vaishnavism.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Glossary Term
Faith
থাজবা (belief/trust) is preferred over ভক্তি because Manipuri Vaishnavism's ভক্তি names a specific, well-developed devotional practice (as expressed in Ras Lila devotion to Krishna) rather than the personal, saving trust in Christ Romans describes.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament fulfillment in Christ); not a cyclical avatar-sequence pattern as in Vaishnava theology, in which further divine descents remain conceptually open.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; a descriptive rendering built on ফুরুপ (clan/community), a category with real weight in Meitei social organization, so use with awareness that 'other peoples' language can resonate with existing clan-identity categories.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from festive announcements associated with the Vaishnava devotional calendar (e.g.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Gospel
নুংঙাইবগী পাউ ('joyful/good news') is a plain descriptive rendering.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer/petition made on behalf of others (Romans 8:26-27); must be kept distinct from petitions traditionally carried to the Umang Lai through a maibi or maiba on a community's behalf.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Jesus
জিসু follows the existing Manipuri Bible's established form; confirm against a current printed edition before this curriculum is finalized.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Justification
CRITICAL: a descriptive compound ('being made/declared righteous') is required to carry the forensic, once-for-all legal-declaration sense; must never be abbreviated to mere forgiveness, which loses the 'declared righteous' dimension central to Romans 4.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Law
য়াথাং (rule/law/command) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Lord
CRITICAL: মপু ইবুংগো ('Lord/Master,' an existing respectful Meitei title) is preferred over ঠাকুর, which carries strong devotional association with Krishna specifically in Manipuri Vaishnava practice (as venerated through Ras Lila devotion); using ঠাকুর risks framing Christ as one more object of bhakti devotion within the existing Vaishnava system rather than exclusive, supreme Lord.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Lordship of Christ
CRITICAL: exclusive, supreme Lordship.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from petitions traditionally carried to the Umang Lai through a maibi or maiba on a community's behalf.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; distinct from a maibi's trance utterances during Lai Haraoba.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
CRITICAL: right standing before God received through faith, not ধর্ম-style religious duty.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Salvation
CRITICAL: never মোক্ষ (Vaishnava liberation) and never framed as a devotee's hoped-for eternal union with or nearness to Krishna's presence.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Salvation
CRITICAL: অহানবা ('being rescued/delivered') must never collapse into মোক্ষ (Vaishnava liberation) or into a bhakti-devotee's hoped-for eternal nearness to or absorption into Krishna's presence in Vaikuntha/Goloka, a real and specific aspiration within Manipuri Vaishnava devotional life.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Must be taught with theological clarity rather than mapped directly onto contemporary Manipur ethnic-community relations, which address a different (social/political) kind of division from the one Romans is resolving.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Universal Scope of the Gospel
No clan (yumnak), caste, or ethnic barrier to the gospel; retain unqualified universality, a point of particular sensitivity given Manipur's contemporary inter-community tensions.
ROM.10.12-13