Passage

Romans 5

• 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.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Object of faith must always be specified as Christ, not left generic.

  ROM.5.1-2

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

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

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Christ's humanity was fully real physical existence, not an illusory manifestation as sometimes implied in stories of miraculous or spirit-manifested births in Burmese folk narrative.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the meditative stilling of mental defilements (ကိလေသာ) pursued through vipassana practice.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace secured through justification, not the meditative stilling of mental defilements pursued through vipassana practice.

  ROM.5.1