Passage
Romans 10
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Use language of witness and proclamation; sensitive where family ancestor-veneration obligations make conversion feel like abandoning family duty.
ROM.10.14-15
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ; well-established term with comparatively low ambiguity risk.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Glossary Term
Faith
Object of faith must always be specified as Christ; standard, well-established term.
ROM.10.9-10, ROM.10.17
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, one-time historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical time-frame of Buddhist cosmology.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jews; established Bible term for the theological category of other nations.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Well established as both the theological term and the common Vietnamese name for Protestantism; must still be anchored to the specific proclamation of salvation through Christ.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Established Vietnamese Protestant Bible term ('good news'); so established that 'Tin Lành' is itself the common Vietnamese name for Protestantism generally.
ROM.10.15-16
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Glossary Term
Imputed Righteousness
Righteousness credited by God, not earned.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Intercession
CRITICAL: Never model this on cầu xin tổ tiên (petitioning deceased ancestors for blessing and protection at the family altar), a central and frequent practice in Vietnamese ancestor veneration (thờ cúng tổ tiên).
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Vietnamese Bible form.
ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Jesus
CRITICAL: Standard Vietnamese Protestant Bible form since the 1926 Bản Dịch Truyền Thống.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Glossary Term
Justification
The forensic declaration of right standing.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Law
Mosaic Law; standard, well-established term with no significant unwanted folk-religious connotation.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Lord
In Romans 10:9 the confession 'Jesus is Lord' = Đức Chúa Giê-xu là Chúa.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Lordship of Christ
Romans 10:9's confession is the salvation-defining statement.
ROM.10.9, ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
CRITICAL: Never modeled on cầu xin tổ tiên (petitioning deceased ancestors for blessing at the family altar), a central and frequent Vietnamese practice.
ROM.10.1
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; standard, well-established term.
ROM.10.11
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
Right standing before God received by faith.
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Salvation
CRITICAL: Never sự giải thoát (liberation from the cycle of rebirth, the central Buddhist soteriological goal).
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Glossary Term
Salvation
CRITICAL: NEVER use sự giải thoát (liberation from the cycle of rebirth, the central goal in Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist practice).
ROM.10.1, ROM.10.10
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Requires OT/NT background teaching; comparatively low direct cultural-analogue risk in the Vietnamese context.
ROM.10.12
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Doctrine
Universal Scope of the Gospel
No ethnic, regional, or ancestral-lineage barrier to the gospel; must retain unqualified universality.
ROM.10.12-13