Passage

Romans 8

• Glossary Term

  Abba

  Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as a transliteration alongside ইপা (Romans 8:15), following the pattern used by related regional Bible translations.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Glossary Term

  Adoption

  A descriptive compound ('taking as a child') stands in for formal legal adoption; traditional Meitei kinship and clan (yumnak) identity runs primarily through birth lineage, so this curriculum should stress the full inheritance-rights sense of Romans 8:15-17 explicitly rather than assume a ready cultural equivalent.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Adoption into God's Family

  Full son-status with complete inheritance rights, which must be explicitly taught since formal legal adoption is not a settled category in traditional Meitei clan (yumnak) kinship structure, where inheritance runs through birth lineage.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Assurance of Salvation

  Assurance based on God's unchanging character; not on maintaining ongoing bhakti devotional standing or ritual harmony with the Umang Lai.

  ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39

• Glossary Term

  Called

  Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  Noun form for the act/state of being called, kept structurally parallel to কৌখিবা (called).

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not clan (yumnak) lineage, ethnic-community belonging, or Vaishnava devotional-community status.

  ROM.8.1

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's sovereign call must be distinguished from a maibi being ritually seized/called by an Umang Lai deity during Lai Haraoba trance, and from ৱাইফম-style impersonal fate.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not ৱাইফম (impersonal fate) and not a royal-divine-lineage selection of the Pakhangba-descent type.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign, personal choice; must be distinguished from ৱাইফম (impersonal fate) and from the sense of royal-divine selection historically claimed by the Meitei kingship tradition (descent from Pakhangba).

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Father

  God as personal Father; ইপা is the ordinary Meitei word for father, chosen for its warmth and intimacy rather than a royal-divine title tied to the Pakhangba lineage tradition or a Vaishnava devotional title.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: must be sharply distinguished from অবতার theology as practiced in Manipuri Vaishnavism and expressed through the Ras Lila dance tradition.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use অবতার.

  ROM.8.3

• 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.8.26-27

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the meditative devotional calm sought through bhakti practice or the harmony traditionally maintained with the Umang Lai through Lai Haraoba observance.

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, judicial peace through justification, not devotional bhakti calm or the ritual harmony maintained with the Umang Lai through Lai Haraoba observance.

  ROM.8.6

• 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.8.26-27

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; never ৱাইফম (fate).

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; never ৱাইফম (fate).

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: a descriptive phrase ('coming back to life from death') avoids পুনর্জন্ম, the rebirth/reincarnation vocabulary that entered Meitei religious discourse through the Hindu Vaishnava tradition.

  ROM.8.11

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, once-for-all resurrection, not পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth), a concept absorbed into Meitei religious discourse through Vaishnavization.

  ROM.8.11

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: full phrase required, built on তেংবাং মপু (see 'god' entry).

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not one avatar among Vishnu's many recognized avatars as understood within Manipuri Vaishnavism.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29