Passage

Romans 5

• 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.5.1-2

• 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.5.1-2

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Christ's full, real humanity must not be diluted into a temporary possession-state as attributed to a medium during bonga-related ritual.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the community and ritual harmony with the bongas and the jaher that Sarnaism's offerings are meant to maintain.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, judicial peace through justification, not the community and ritual harmony with the bongas and the jaher maintained through offerings.

  ROM.5.1