Passage

Romans 8

• Glossary Term

  Abba

  Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; kept as transliteration alongside पिता.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Glossary Term

  Adoption

  Emphasizes full son-status and inheritance.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Adoption into God's Family

  Full son-status with complete inheritance rights.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Assurance of Salvation

  Assurance rests in God's unchanging character, not a karmic ledger.

  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; pair with बोलावलेले for the participle.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, community, or the social-reform identity built around any single movement, however dignifying that movement has been for its members.

  ROM.8.1

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's initiating, sovereign call must be distinguished from the devotee-initiated seeking of Warkari bhakti (undertaking the wari pilgrimage to Pandharpur by one's own devotion) and from the deliberate, self-chosen 'taking of refuge' (conversion vow) central to the Navayana Buddhist path.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the one called; must not be phrased so as to echo the karma-birth explanation of social standing that Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically and painfully rejected.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign, personal choice.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Father

  God as personal Father; avoid abstract creator-titles that lack relational warmth.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER अवतार, especially salient given Vitthal's Vaishnav associations at the heart of Warkari devotion.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER अवतार (Vitthal/Krishna avatar-descent, central to Warkari devotional theology).

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer on behalf of others; standard term.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  Relational peace with God through justification, not the inner calm (मनःशांती) sought through bhakti meditation or Buddhist mindfulness practice.

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational peace through justification, not the inner tranquility sought through bhakti devotion or Buddhist mindfulness/meditation practice.

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from bhakti puja/kirtan directed toward Vitthal and from Buddhist chanting or meditation practice, neither of which addresses a personal, listening God.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER पुनर्जन्म (Hindu rebirth) or पुनर्भव (the Buddhist technical term for the arising of a new configuration of aggregates after death, explicitly not the survival of a continuous self).

  ROM.8.11

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all.

  ROM.8.11

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: full phrase required.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship; not a title of honor bestowed on an especially devoted or enlightened figure.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29