Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ; well-established term with comparatively low ambiguity risk.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Object of faith must always be specified as Christ; standard, well-established term.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Unmerited favor must be distinguished from phước đức/công đức (Buddhist accumulated merit) and ơn nghĩa (a Confucian-style favor creating a reciprocal debt).

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Never use phước đức or công đức (merit accumulated through good deeds in Buddhist practice) or ơn nghĩa (a favor that creates a Confucian-style reciprocal obligation to repay).

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Christ's humanity was fully real physical existence, not a temporary manifestation as in stories of deities or bodhisattvas appearing in human form.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not merely the inner calm sought through Buddhist meditation practice.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace secured through justification, not the inner calm sought through Buddhist meditation practice.

  ROM.5.1