Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; distinguish from பக்தி (bhakti), an unusually richly developed devotional category in Tamil Shaiva and Vaishnava poetic tradition.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament), not a cyclical cosmic frame drawn from Hindu or Jain cosmology.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Established Tamil Bible term for non-Jewish peoples.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Tamil Sri Vaishnavism's prapatti debate (the Tenkalai "cat-and-kitten" wholly-unconditioned grace versus the Vadakalai "monkey-and-baby" cooperative grace) offers a genuinely sophisticated point of theological comparison, but Christian grace must still be taught as received through faith in Christ's finished work, not ritual surrender to a deity.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Unmerited favor apart from human merit.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Established proper-name form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic law; established Tamil Bible term.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological prediction.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression before a personal God, distinct from தீவினை (bad karmic action, a category from the impersonal karma-accounting framework shared by Tamil Hindu and Jain thought).
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste-based spiritual hierarchy, a live and politically significant claim in the Tamil Nadu context.
ROM.3.23