Passage

Romans 2

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  грех is well established, including in secular Russian idiom, but seven decades of state atheism have partly flattened it into a folk-moral or even joking register ('грех жаловаться' = 'it'd be a sin/shame to complain'), and secular readers may hear it as outdated moralism rather than a serious category of guilt before a personal God.

  ROM.2.6-11

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  Seven decades of state atheism have partly flattened грех into a folk-moral or even joking register; the weight of universal guilt before a personal God in Romans 1:18-3:20 must be restored explicitly rather than assumed from the vocabulary alone.

  ROM.2.6-11