Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the guṇa-classified threefold śraddhā of Bhagavad Gītā 17 or the structured bhakti-mārga soteriological path.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
श्रद्धा is rejected not as generically 'too devotional' but because it is a precisely theorized technical term: Bhagavad Gita chapter 17 analyzes śraddhā as threefold (sāttvikī, rājasī, tāmasī), classified by which guṇa of prakṛti dominates the believer's constitution -- a fully worked-out psychological-metaphysical doctrine incompatible with faith as simple trust in a specific person.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical time of the four yugas (kṛta, tretā, dvāpara, kali) within which avatāras periodically appear per Gītā 4.7-8.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
म्लेच्छाः is explicitly rejected: in classical Sanskrit usage this term for 'foreigner/outsider' carries a ritual-impurity and cultural-contempt connotation (those outside varṇa society and Vedic ritual competence) far more pejorative than the neutral 'non-Jew' sense Paul intends.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor directly contradicts the karma-mīmāṃsā framework in which ritual and moral action produce their own automatic result (karmaphala), and must also be distinguished from prasāda's ritual food-offering-and-return structure.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
प्रसादः is explicitly rejected because in Sanskrit it names a concrete ritual category: food or an object offered to a deity and returned to the worshipper as a sanctified gift (prasādam), a transactional cultic exchange, not unmerited relational favor.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name, transliterated.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
विधिः is deliberately chosen from Pūrva Mīmāṃsā, the classical school devoted entirely to interpreting Vedic scriptural injunctions: a vidhi is a positive scriptural command carrying binding authority.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration of what is to come; a straightforward compound with no major competing technical sense.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression before a personal God.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges varṇa-based ritual and spiritual hierarchy embedded in classical dharmaśāstra social theory.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines varṇa-based ritual-spiritual hierarchy.
ROM.3.23