Passage
Romans 5
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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.5.1-2
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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.5.1-2
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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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21
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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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21
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Doctrine
Humanity of Christ
Real, physical human nature, not an apparent or illusory body as some avatāra narratives describe, and not to be confused with māyā (the Advaitic doctrine of the illusory, provisionally-real nature of the phenomenal world).
ROM.5.15
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational and forensic peace with God through justification -- at risk of being heard instead as the meditative cessation of mental fluctuation (citta-vṛtti-nirodha, Yoga Sūtra 1.2) sought through yogic discipline, a private psychological attainment rather than a restored relationship with a personal God.
ROM.5.1
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, forensic peace through justification, not the yogic citta-vṛtti-nirodha (cessation of mental fluctuation) attained through meditative discipline.
ROM.5.1