Passage

Romans 4

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the generic 'both-and' religious sentiment typical of Japan's syncretistic shrine-and-temple practice.

  ROM.4.1-25

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically; must be distinguished from generic 宗教心 (religious sentiment) common in Japan's famously syncretistic 'do both' religious practice (visiting a Shinto shrine at New Year and a Buddhist temple at Obon without exclusive commitment to either).

  ROM.4.1-25

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  NEVER use 輪廻転生 (rinne tenshou, the Buddhist cycle of reincarnation).

  ROM.4.25

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  NEVER 輪廻転生 (reincarnation cycle).

  ROM.4.25