Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity is located in union with Christ, not in ancestral lineage, family religious obligation, or accumulated merit.

  ROM.6.1-11

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Set apart for God and morally pure; standard, well-established term.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: Never use bare thần linh (the broad Vietnamese folk-religious category of spirits and local deities, including tutelary land spirits and ancestor spirits).

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  CRITICAL: NEVER use sự đầu thai or luân hồi (rebirth/reincarnation into a new existence within the cycle of samsara, central to Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist cosmology).

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: Bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; well-established term with comparatively low syncretism risk.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; standard, well-established term.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with entering monastic Buddhist life (xuất gia) as the primary model of devoted service; biblical separation is devoted service to God within ordinary life.

  ROM.6.22