Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
A cognate concept (သဒ္ဓါ, confidence built through verified experience of the Triple Gem) already exists, which lowers the risk of total incomprehension but requires care that faith is presented as trust in a person, not experiential confidence in a teaching.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Object of faith must always be specified as Christ, not left generic.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, one-time historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmology of repeating world-ages found in Buddhist cosmology.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jews; established term.
ROM.3.29-30
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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.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
CRITICAL: Never use ကုသိုလ် (kutho, accumulated Buddhist merit) or ကံကောင်းခြင်း (good karma/luck).
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Myanmar Bible form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
Mosaic Law.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological forecasting (ဗေဒင်).
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Moral transgression against a personal God, not merely အကုသိုလ် (demerit, the negative counterpart of merit that lowers one's karmic account and next-rebirth prospects).
ROM.3.23
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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.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity stands equally guilty before a personal God, which must be retained without softening into a graded merit-scale where some are simply 'more advanced' than others.
ROM.3.23