Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not superstitious belief (미신) or confidence placed in fortune-telling/astrology practices still common in Korean folk life.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Personal trust placed in Christ specifically.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, one-time historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not a fortune-telling prediction (점, 사주팔자 예측) coming true by chance.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Avoid framing through Korea's historically powerful ethnic-nationalist self-conception of 단일민족 (danil minjok, 'a single, homogeneous ethnic nation'), which risks reinforcing an ethnic-insider/foreigner (외국인) reading rather than the specific redemptive-historical Jew/non-Jew category Romans addresses.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
CRITICAL: the central Korean risk term.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
CRITICAL: this is the central Korean risk term.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic Law.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; distinguish from 점 (fortune-telling divination) and from 사주팔자 (saju-paljja) astrological prediction, both widely practiced in Korean folk culture.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Distinguish from 액운 (aegun, bad luck/misfortune attributed to fate or spiritual causes in folk belief) and from 체면 손상 (loss of face/social standing, 체면 chemyeon being a strong Korean social concept).
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges any lingering ethnic-insider framing; must translate with theological clarity rather than softened diplomatic language.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity equally guilty before God regardless of social standing; must be taught as guilt before a personal God, not merely loss of face (체면 손상) or bad luck (액운).
ROM.3.23