Passage
Romans 3
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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.3.22-28
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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.3.22-28
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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.3.21
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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.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor must be distinguished from Vaishnava bhakti's কৃপা (Krishna's favor, typically understood as responsive to a devotee's devoted service), a live and well-developed devotional framework, not a distant abstraction.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
CRITICAL: a descriptive compound ('favor given without needing to be earned') is required.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
য়াথাং (rule/law/command) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; distinct from a maibi's trance utterances during Lai Haraoba.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
পাপ (a term shared broadly across regional Indic religious vocabulary) conveys moral transgression before a personal God.
ROM.3.23
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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.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God; retain universal language without softening, even against any residual royal-divine-lineage status claims tied to the historic Pakhangba descent tradition.
ROM.3.23