Passage

Romans 8

• Glossary Term

  Abba

  Aramaic term of filial intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15; retained as a transliteration rather than reduced to formal पिता alone.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Glossary Term

  Adoption

  दत्तकग्रहणम् (the classical dharmaśāstra term for formal legal adoption, discussed with specific inheritance-share rules in texts like the Dattaka Mīmāṃsā literature) is available and not wrong, but the fuller descriptive phrase is preferred here to foreground full inheritance rights without importing dharmaśāstra's specific partial-share adoption rules, which do not match Romans' picture of complete heirship.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Adoption into God's Family

  Full son-status with complete inheritance rights, deliberately not modeled on dharmaśāstra's dattaka-grahaṇa adoption rules, which specify partial inheritance shares incompatible with Romans' picture of complete heirship.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Assurance of Salvation

  Assurance based on God's unchanging character, not karmic uncertainty about the balance of one's accumulated karmaphala or the outcome of one's next transmigration.

  ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39

• Glossary Term

  Called

  Context-sensitive: in 1:1, called to apostleship; in 1:7, called to be saints; in 8:28-30, effectual calling to salvation.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  Noun form sharing its root with 'called'; translators should be aware this term's ordinary Vedic sense is a human ritual act toward a deity, so its use here for God's initiative toward humans should be flagged at first occurrence.

  ROM.8.28-30

• 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.8.1

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  God's sovereign call must be distinguished from human ritual invocation of a deity (the ordinary Vedic sense of āhvāna) and from karma-determined destiny.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not an impersonal karmic or fated outcome (daiva).

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign personal choice, not भाग्यम् (fortune) or दैवम् -- the latter a genuine philosophical category debated in texts like the Mahābhārata's daiva-puruṣakāra discussions (the relative weight of fate versus human effort), not the same as a personal God's deliberate choice of specific people.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Father

  God as personal Father.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature, once.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  CRITICAL: NEVER अवतारः.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer offered on behalf of others through Christ as sole mediator; a plain compound with no major rival technical sense.

  ROM.8.26-27

• 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.8.6

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, forensic peace through justification, not the yogic citta-vṛtti-nirodha (cessation of mental fluctuation) attained through meditative discipline.

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from Vedic ritual invocation (āhvāna, homa) requiring precise mantra performance for efficacy.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care, not the impersonal karmaphala causal law or the daiva/puruṣakāra (fate versus effort) framework debated in the Mahābhārata.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER पुनर्जन्म.

  ROM.8.11

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.8.11

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: full phrase required, using परमेश्वर (see 'god' entry) rather than bare ईश्वर for the same Advaita-subordination reasons noted under 'lord'.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical sonship, and not a partial 'portion' (aṃśa) of God in the sense sometimes used of avatāras.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29