Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically; the object of faith must always be named, since biswas alone could be read as generalized confidence in the bongas' goodwill.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
biswas (a widely shared regional Indic loanword for belief/trust) is the best-attested general term in currently available Santali Christian literature.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament fulfillment in Christ) has no ready oral-tradition parallel in Sarnaism and should not be confused with an Ojha's divinatory pronouncements during a healing ritual.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; a plain descriptive rendering ('other/outside peoples').
ROM.3.29-30
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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.3.24
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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.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
ain (a shared regional loanword for law/rule) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; distinct from an Ojha's divinatory pronouncements during a healing ritual.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
pap (a shared regional loanword) conveys moral transgression before a personal God.
ROM.3.23
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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.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God; retain universal language without softening, even where witchcraft-accusation (daain) dynamics in traditional village life already create a very different, socially fraught model of communal guilt and blame that must not be confused with Romans' argument.
ROM.3.23