Passage
Romans 6
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not varṇa, accumulated karma-status, or ātman-Brahman identity as taught in Advaita (see the Holy Spirit entry in translation_memory.json for the closely related risk).
ROM.6.1-11
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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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15
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Glossary Term
Holy
The Vedic root sense of pavitra is a physical purifying instrument (e.g.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL -- THE SINGLE HIGHEST-STAKES TERM IN THIS ENTIRE LANGUAGE PACKAGE: आत्मन् is not a loosely 'spiritual-sounding' word but the central category of Vedāntic metaphysics.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: NEVER पुनर्जन्म.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection.
ROM.6.4-5
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's work of making believers holy, not the Vedic ritual-purification sense underlying pavitra's original usage, and not yogic self-purification (śuddhi) through discipline.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinguished from Vedic/dharmaśāstra ritual purification procedures (śuddhi) prescribed for specific ritual-impurity events.
ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the formal saṃnyāsa (renunciation) life-stage of the varṇāśrama-dharma system.
ROM.6.22