Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
The cognate ศรัทธา (Buddhist devotional confidence) exists in Thai and lowers total incomprehension risk, but the object of faith must be clearly a person, Christ, not a set of teachings verified by practice.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Object of faith must always be specified as Christ.
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, one-time historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical world-ages of Buddhist-Brahmanic cosmology.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jews; established term.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
CRITICAL: Grace as unearned favor cuts directly against บุญ (merit-making) and บารมี (accumulated moral perfection), concepts embedded in daily Thai religious and civic life.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
CRITICAL: Never use บุญ (merit) or กรรมดี (good karma), and never บารมี (accumulated charisma/perfection built over lifetimes, a concept applied to both monks and the monarchy).
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Thai Bible form.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
Mosaic Law.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, distinct from horoscope-style fortune-telling (คำทำนายดวงชะตา).
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
บาป is shared vocabulary with Thai Buddhism, so it must always be anchored to an offense against a personal God, not left as the impersonal negative-karma sense of อกุศลกรรม that simply lowers one's merit balance.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Challenges any notion that Thai-Buddhist identity carries inherent religious priority over ethnic or religious minorities; must be rendered with full theological clarity.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
All humanity stands equally guilty before a personal God, which must be retained without softening into a graded merit-scale where some are simply further along the path than others.
ROM.3.23