Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust placed in Christ specifically, not the devotional surrender (ଭକ୍ତି) an Odia Vaishnav devotee directs toward Jagannath.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically; ଭକ୍ତି carries the devotional-surrender sense of Odia Vaishnav bhakti practice, which does not require the specific, exclusive object of trust that ବିଶ୍ୱାସ requires here.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, one-time historical fulfillment; not the cyclical, periodically-renewed pattern embodied concretely in the Nabakalebara ritual, where the sacred image itself is replaced on a recurring cycle rather than fulfilled once for all.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; ବିଦେଶୀ (foreigners) is too narrowly national.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor stands against the ritual-offering economy of Jagannath devotion (seba, bhoga offerings, and pilgrimage merit), where divine favor is typically understood as responsive to devotional service rather than freely and unconditionally given.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Unmerited favor apart from human merit.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
Torah/Mosaic law.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological forecasting (ଗଣନା).
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression before a personal God who judges and forgives.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy and the outsider/insider boundary structured into Puri temple access; must be translated with full theological clarity, not softened.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty and equally invited; genuinely resonates with the Ananda Bazaar tradition of caste-crossing shared meals at Puri, while still going further than that practice by removing the outsider/non-Hindu exclusion that practice does not touch.
ROM.3.23