Passage

Romans 11

• Glossary Term

  Apostle

  ဆရာတော်/ဆရာကြီး carry senior-monk connotations.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Apostleship

  Risk of reducing apostleship to a respected senior-monk (ဆရာတော်) style teaching role rather than a directly commissioned, authoritative sent-one.

  ROM.11.13

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not karma-fixed destiny (ကံဇာတာ) or fatalism.

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Election

  God's sovereign personal choice, not ကံဇာတာ/ကံကြမ္မာ (karma-fixed destiny determined by accumulated past-life actions).

  ROM.11.29

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews; established term.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Doctrine

  Grace

  CRITICAL: Grace as unearned favor cuts directly against the daily lay practice of merit-making (ကုသိုလ်ပြုခြင်း) that shapes Burmese Buddhist religious life more pervasively than almost any other single practice.

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: Never use ကုသိုလ် (kutho, accumulated Buddhist merit) or ကံကောင်းခြင်း (good karma/luck).

  ROM.11.5-6

• Glossary Term

  Imputed Righteousness

  Righteousness credited by God, not earned.

  ROM.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; established Myanmar Bible form.

  ROM.11.17-24

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  Compound phrase required; no single Burmese word carries the forensic sense.

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care, not ကံ (impersonal karmic cause and effect).

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance of events; never ကံ (impersonal karmic law of cause and effect).

  ROM.11.33-36

• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: Never use ကုသိုလ်ကံ (merit-karma) or သီလ (moral precepts kept for merit).

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Never နိဗ္ဗာန်ရောက်ခြင်း (attaining nirvana).

  ROM.11.11

• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: NEVER use နိဗ္ဗာန်ရောက်ခြင်း (attaining nirvana/neikban, the Buddhist extinguishing of craving and escape from samsara).

  ROM.11.11

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Challenges any notion that being Buddhist and Burman carries inherent religious priority over minority ethnic or religious groups; must be rendered with full theological clarity.

  ROM.11.17-24