Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in clan/lineage standing, face/reputation, or accumulated merit.

  ROM.6.1-11

• Doctrine

  Grace

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

  ROM.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  聖潔 = set apart for God, morally pure.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: always use the compound 聖靈; NEVER use 靈 alone, which in Hong Kong folk usage covers ancestral spirits, temple spirits, and the spirits summoned in 問米 mediumship.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER use 投胎轉世 (rebirth into a new womb) or frame resurrection using the imagery of 問米 (man6 mai5, a Cantonese folk-spirit-medium practice of 'calling down' a deceased person's spirit for consultation, still sought out in Hong Kong).

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: 復活, not 投胎轉世 (rebirth cycle) and not framed like a 問米 spirit-medium briefly summoning a deceased person's spirit.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  Spirit-wrought process, distinguished from self-directed cultivation regimens (修煉) or simple habit-reform (戒除惡習).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  Shares the Confucian self-cultivation-into-sagehood resonance found across the Chinese-character sphere, but Hong Kong's more religiously plural, less classically-Confucian-schooled general population makes the collision somewhat less acute than in Mandarin contexts; still requires a clarifying note distinguishing Spirit-wrought sanctification from self-directed moral discipline (修煉, associated with qigong/martial-arts training regimens) or simple habit-reform (戒除惡習).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with ritual dietary abstinence or vow-keeping practices tied to temple worship (戒口, 還神還願).

  ROM.6.22