Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Measured against both Islamic creedal iman and Pashtunwali's own honor-code loyalty (nang); faith here is personal trust in Christ, not loyalty to either system.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Shares the shared Islamic six-pillars creedal structure, but Pashtun listeners also measure loyalty against Pashtunwali's own honor code (nang), a parallel authoritative system that predates and sometimes competes with formal Islamic practice.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Naskh (abrogation) doctrine treats later revelation as superseding earlier revelation; Romans' fulfillment argument needs deliberate framing against this default.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  امتونه shares the loaded Ummah root; the descriptive غیر یهودیان ('non-Jews') avoids that association.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Pashtunwali's hospitality code (melmastia) treats gifts as reciprocity-creating; grace must be taught as a one-directional gift creating no repayment obligation.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Pashtunwali's hospitality code (melmastia) treats gift-giving as reciprocity-creating - a gift typically obligates the receiver to repay in honor.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Carries general pan-Islamic solidarity-based negative sentiment, though it is a less centrally charged first-order national issue in Afghanistan/Pakistan than in Iran or the Arab world given the absence of direct territorial proximity or conflict.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  CRITICAL: unlike Arabic and Persian, Pashtun society lives under two parallel, sometimes competing normative systems - formal Islamic shari'a and customary Pashtunwali tribal law.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  Low independent risk beyond the prophet entry's own note.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Beyond Islam's fitrah doctrine shared with Arabic and Persian, Pashtunwali's honor-shame ethics primarily track violations of nang (honor) and tribal code, not transgression against a personal God.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Requires pastoral framing given general pan-Islamic solidarity-based sentiment about Israel, though less centrally politically charged in Afghanistan/Pakistan than in Iran or the Arab world.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  Islamic fitrah doctrine and Pashtunwali's honor-shame-primary ethics both need to be engaged; sin against God is a distinct category from either innate purity or dishonoring the tribal code, and must be taught as such.

  ROM.3.23