Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory; not humanitarian or educational service divorced from the gospel, a distinction worth stressing given the historical association of mission work with schools among Manipur's hill communities.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; not merely clan (yumnak) or social association.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
কলিসিয়া (transliterated) refers to the gathered assembly of believers.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community; not a temple institution, a Sanamahi sacred-grove community, or an ethnically-segregated assembly.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A relational covenant/promise bond; confirm this rendering's exact naturalness with a Manipuri-speaking theologian, as no crystallized single covenant-theology term is attested in currently available Manipuri Christian literature.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper-name transliteration, following existing Manipuri Bible-translation convention.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Sanamahi tradition, though the Meitei cultural emphasis on royal lineage (the Pakhangba descent claim of historic Meitei kingship) gives 'seed of David' language a point of natural, if distinct, resonance.
ROM.15.12
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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.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use for encouragement/building up; use হায়জবা (entreaty/pleading) for beseeching contexts.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ, conveying togetherness/companionship; confirm regional naturalness with native speakers given limited established Manipuri Christian devotional vocabulary for this specific sense.
ROM.15.24
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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.15.8-12
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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.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from festive announcements associated with the Vaishnava devotional calendar (e.g.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
নুংঙাইবগী পাউ ('joyful/good news') is a plain descriptive rendering.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
অসেংবা conveys moral purity and being set apart for God.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: থাওয়াই অসেংবা must always be used in full.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
The historical burning of indigenous Meitei religious manuscripts (puya) in the 1729 Puya Meithaba means this curriculum should teach the God-breathed, providentially preserved character of Scripture with particular sensitivity to Meitei cultural memory around lost sacred texts.
ROM.15.4
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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.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel; must be distinguished from the historic Meitei kingship's own royal-divine-lineage political framing.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; should be distinguished from the historic Meitei kingship tradition itself, in which the king (ningthou) was understood as descended from the divine serpent-ancestor Pakhangba, a distinctly local royal-divine-lineage concept.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
য়াথাং (rule/law/command) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term, following existing Manipuri Bible-translation convention.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus; it must not be presented as one figure among Vishnu's recognized avatar sequence, culminating in some Vaishnava schemes with Krishna.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
'The task of spreading the news.' Given the history of American Baptist mission work in the Manipur hills (among neighboring Naga and Kuki-Zo communities) becoming entangled in regional memory with colonial-era administration and, more recently, with sensitive inter-community relations within Manipur, frame evangelism as the church's own calling rather than a foreign or ethnically-coded project.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Given the historical association of Christian mission work with colonial-era administration and, more recently, with sensitive inter-community relations within Manipur, frame evangelism as the church's own calling rather than a foreign or ethnically-coded project.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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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.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; distinct from a maibi's trance utterances during Lai Haraoba.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson; must not be confused with মৈবা, the male ritual specialist and healer recognized in traditional Sanamahi religious practice, or with a মৈবী (maibi) priestess's oracular role.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; not ritual purification before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinct from ritual purification before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; a descriptive phrase conveying physical lineage, which can resonate with the Meitei cultural emphasis on royal and clan (yumnak) descent lines, but requires explicit Old Testament covenant background to avoid being read as merely a genealogical claim of the Pakhangba-lineage type.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the ritual preparations undertaken before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.
ROM.15.16
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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.15.7-12