Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ; distinguish from generalized Hindu/Buddhist devotional reverence (श्रद्धा, भक्ति).

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament), not the cyclical cosmic frame shared by Hindu yuga cosmology and Buddhist cycles of rebirth.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jewish peoples generally; established Nepali Bible term.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts the karma-merit accounting shared by Nepali Hindu and Buddhist ethical frameworks; must always reinforce "apart from human merit."

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor apart from human merit.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Established proper-name form.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic law.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological prediction.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal God.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy, a legally enforced structure in Nepal within living memory.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste-based spiritual hierarchy, formerly codified in Nepali state law.

  ROM.3.23