Passage

Romans 11

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  A provisional descriptive phrase ('a person sent with a sending/commission') for authorized, commissioned ministry.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Risk of reducing apostleship to a generic ritual-specialist role paralleling a Naeke (village priest) or Ojha (healer) rather than a unique, Christ-commissioned sent ministry.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not an inherited communal ritual relationship with a particular protective bonga.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign, personal choice; must be distinguished from any sense of a village or clan being under a particular bonga's protection by tradition, which is a matter of inherited communal ritual relationship, not personal, relational choice by a sovereign God.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jewish peoples; a plain descriptive rendering ('other/outside peoples').

  ROM.11.17-24

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor must be distinguished from the reciprocal offering-and-exchange logic (dan) central to Sarnaism's relationship with the bongas, in which favor and protection are secured through proper ritual observance.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: a provisional descriptive compound ('given without needing to be earned') is required, since Sarnaism's ritual life is structured around dan (offerings) made to bongas at the jaher to secure protection and avert misfortune -- a reciprocal, exchange-based logic.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; standard transliteration.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: a provisional descriptive compound ('being pronounced properly conducted') attempting to carry the forensic, once-for-all legal-declaration sense; no single Santali term or settled compound for this exact concept is attested in currently available literature.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; Romans 8:28 should be taught as relational confidence in a personal God, not attributed to maintaining good standing with the bongas through consistent ritual observance.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; Romans 8:28 should be taught as relational confidence in a personal God, not attributed to maintaining good standing with the bongas through consistent ritual observance.

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: a provisional compound ('being properly/correctly conducted') for right standing before God received through faith.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: this is a genuine conceptual gap, not a wrong-existing-word problem.

  ROM.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: bachao (a widely shared regional Indic loanword meaning 'rescue/save') is the best-attested general term, but Sarnaism has no developed eschatological salvation category at all -- its ritual life, centered on the jaher and led by the Naeke, targets protection from malevolent bongas, good harvests, and community harmony in this life, addressed when disrupted through an Ojha's intervention against witchcraft or bonga affliction.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Must be taught with theological clarity rather than mapped directly onto contemporary Adivasi/diku identity categories, which address a different (social/political) kind of division from the one Romans is resolving.

  ROM.11.17-24