Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the confidence commonly placed in fortune-telling and palm-reading services.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust placed in Christ specifically.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor directly contradicts the vow-and-offering transactional exchange modeled by Hong Kong's most popular temple worship (e.g.

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

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: NEVER frame grace as 福氣 (fuk1 hei3, good fortune) obtained the way Hong Kong temple-goers seek it — most visibly at Wong Tai Sin Temple (黃大仙祠), famous for the saying 「有求必應」('whatever you ask, you shall receive'), a transactional vow-and-offering exchange with a deity.

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

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not a temporary manifestation-form (化身) a deity could exchange for another appearance.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  Everyday greeting/blessing word, reinforced in Hong Kong by common protective-charm culture (平安符) and lucky-day almanac consultation (老黃曆) before major decisions.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace through justification, not the general protection-from-misfortune sense reinforced by protective-charm and lucky-almanac culture.

  ROM.5.1