Doctrine Analysis
11 Doctrine Analysis — James 1–5 (Full Book Coverage)
Purpose
This document provides the complete doctrine matrix for the James curriculum, extending and remaining fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (James, v1) and never contradicting the Romans baseline (translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json). Every doctrine listed below carries the identical risk tier assigned in the registry. This analysis additionally maps each doctrine across every verse-range of every chapter of James, so that no section of the book is left unreviewed, per the PRD Phase 1 full-book-coverage mandate. The core passage, James 2:14-26, anchors the two Critical faith-and-works doctrines but is not the boundary of scope.
1. Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Risk | Bengali Doctrine Name | Primary Passages (registry) | Extended Supporting Passages (full-book mapping) | Key Terms | Translation Risk Summary | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faith and Works | Critical | বিশ্বাস ও কাজ | James 2:14-26; 1:22-25 | 2:1 (introduces the letter’s practical-faith concern) | faith, works, dead_faith, cooperated_with_works, completed_by_works, friend_of_god, demons, one_god_confession | কাজ (never কর্ম) required for “works” to avoid Hindu karma-merit collision; the demons’-orthodoxy example (2:19) parallels the baseline’s ঈমান-rejection logic — bare creedal monotheism does not save. Surface tension with Romans’ sola fide must be preserved as a translation puzzle, not silently resolved. | Human theologian |
| 2 | Justification: Evidential Vindication (James) vs. Forensic Declaration (Romans) | Critical | কাজের দ্বারা ধার্মিক বলে প্রমাণিত হওয়া | James 2:21-25 | 2:14, 2:26 (framing verses) | justified_by_works, faith_alone_phrase, imputed_righteousness, righteousness | Must use the SAME Bengali phrase (ধার্মিক বলে গণ্য হওয়া) as the Romans baseline’s forensic term, but with a mandatory theologian-reviewed disambiguating note at every occurrence (2:21, 2:24, 2:25) distinguishing evidential/vindicating sense from forensic-declarative sense. Genesis 15:6 citation (2:23) must match Romans 4:3’s Bengali wording verbatim. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Trials and the Testing of Faith | High | পরীক্ষা ও বিশ্বাসের প্রমাণ | James 1:2-4; 1:12; 5:11 | 1:16-18 (Father of lights, good gifts — God’s unchanging goodness, contrasted with the temptation doctrine below) | trial, testing_genuineness, endurance, perfect_mature, gift, father_of_lights | পরীক্ষা (trial) must never be confused with প্রলোভন (temptation) despite sharing the Greek lemma πειρασμός; τέλειος rendered পরিপূর্ণ, rejecting সিদ্ধ (Hindu/yogic “perfected being” term). | Human theologian |
| 4 | Temptation and the Source of Sin | Critical | প্রলোভন ও পাপের উৎস | James 1:13-15 | (none beyond primary — tightly localized) | temptation, desire_lust, sin | Collapsing প্রলোভন into পরীক্ষা would make God the author of temptation-to-sin, a catastrophic doctrinal error; ἐπιθυμία must render কুবাসনা/মন্দ অভিলাষ, never plain কামনা (resonance with Hindu Kāma as a legitimate life-goal). | Human theologian |
| 5 | Wisdom from Above | High | ঊর্ধ্ব থেকে আসা প্রজ্ঞা | James 1:5-8; 3:13-18 | 1:19-21 (word of truth / implanted word, as the reception-point of wisdom) | wisdom, wisdom_from_above, earthly_wisdom, soulish_wisdom, demonic_wisdom, jealousy_selfish_ambition, peacemakers, word_of_truth | σοφία rendered প্রজ্ঞা, never জ্ঞান (Hindu jñāna-mārga, liberation-through-knowledge). ψুχική (“soulish/natural”) has no settled Bengali Bible precedent and needs an explanatory gloss, not a single-word rendering. | Human theologian |
| 6 | True Religion and the Law of Liberty | High | সত্য ধর্মাচরণের সংজ্ঞা | James 1:26-27; 2:8-12; 1:25 | 1:22-25 (doers of the word, not hearers only) | religion_true, law_of_liberty, law, orphans_widows, doer_of_the_word | θρησκεία is the ONE deliberate exception where ধর্ম is the correct rendering, not the forbidden term for righteousness — mandatory note required at every occurrence to prevent readers concluding the baseline’s ধর্ম prohibition has been silently abandoned. “Law of liberty” needs disambiguation from Mosaic/ceremonial ব্যবস্থা elsewhere. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Favoritism and the Poor | High | পক্ষপাতিত্ব ও দরিদ্রজন | James 1:9-11; 2:1-13; 5:1-6 | 2:1 (Lord of glory — deity of Christ overlap with baseline) | favoritism, poor_rich, heirs_of_kingdom, kingdom_of_god, lord_of_hosts, mercy, lord_of_glory | Confronts residual caste-consciousness and communal/class hierarchy directly, paralleling the Romans baseline’s universal_scope_of_gospel doctrine. “Lord of Sabaoth” (5:4) must avoid শক্তি-root renderings per the baseline’s Shakta-collision convention. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Taming the Tongue | High | জিহ্বাকে দমন করা | James 1:26; 3:1-12 | (none beyond primary) | tongue, bridle_control, hell_gehenna, likeness_of_god | নরক (gehenna) requires a mandatory note distinguishing final, non-cyclical biblical hell from the Hindu Naraka (temporary, karma-exhausting). “Likeness of God” must reject প্রতিমা (Hindu ritual idol term). | Human theologian |
| 9 | Truthful Speech and Oaths | Medium | সত্যবাদিতা ও শপথ | James 5:12; 3:1 | (none beyond primary) | oaths, teacher | Tension with Bengali social/legal oath custom (court oaths, marriage vows) requires pastoral framing, not a lexical fix; no specific religious-vocabulary collision rises to theologian-review level. | Native speaker review |
| 10 | Worldliness versus Friendship with God | High | জগৎপ্রীতি বনাম ঈশ্বরের মিত্রতা | James 1:27; 4:1-10 | 4:11-12 (judging a brother, the one Lawgiver/Judge — extension of the same worldliness argument) | world, friendship_with_world, enmity_with_god, pleasure, adulterous_spiritual, submit_to_god, devil, friend_of_god, lawgiver | জগৎ, never সংসার (Hindu householder-life/samsara-cycle term). “Friend of God” (2:23) and “friendship with the world” (4:4) must share the মিত্র root to preserve James’s literary antithesis. ὑποτάγητε (“submit,” 4:7) parallels the root sense of “Islam” — theologically compatible but framing-sensitive. | Human theologian |
| 11 | Prayer and Healing | High | প্রার্থনা ও আরোগ্য | James 5:13-15 | (none beyond primary) | sick_illness, anointing_with_oil, prayer_of_faith, raise_up_healing, elders, church | তেল মাখানো, never অভিষেক (Hindu deity-anointing/Durga Puja register), with a mandatory note that the prayer of faith, not the oil, is efficacious. “Elders” must be distinguished from pir/shrine-based folk healers. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Physical Healing versus Eternal Salvation | Critical | শারীরিক আরোগ্য বনাম আত্মিক পরিত্রাণ | James 2:14; 5:15; 5:20 | (none beyond primary — a single cross-cutting doctrine by design) | physical_healing_save, salvation, save_soul_from_death, forgiveness_specific_sins | σῴζω’s dual sense (physical healing vs. eternal salvation) within one short letter is the sharpest Critical risk after faith/works: healing renders সুস্থ করা/রক্ষা করা, never পরিত্রাণ; eternal deliverance renders পরিত্রাণ. Both senses require one consolidated theologian note. | Human theologian |
| 13 | Effective Prayer of the Righteous (Elijah Example) | Medium | ধার্মিক ব্যক্তির ফলপ্রসূ প্রার্থনা | James 5:16-18 | (none beyond primary) | effective_prayer, righteousness | ইsχύει (“effective/powerful”) must avoid শক্তি-root compounds by analogy to the baseline’s power-of-God convention. The Elijah reference presumes OT literacy the target audience generally lacks — a background-literacy, not lexical-collision, concern. | Native speaker review |
| 14 | Patience and the Lord’s Return | Critical | ধৈর্য ও প্রভুর পুনরাগমন | James 5:7-11 | 4:13-17 (“if the Lord wills” contingency formula — the same eschatological horizon in miniature) | patience_makrothymia, endurance, parousia, judge, example_job, lords_will | παρουσία must never be softened into a vague spiritual “presence”; it is a genuine future, personal, visible return, distinct from Hindu cyclical time and the Islamic expectation of Isa’s return (which denies his prior death/resurrection). μακροθυμία (ধৈর্য) must stay lexically distinct from ὑπομονή (সহিষ্ণুতা). “If the Lord wills” (4:15) structurally echoes ইনশাআল্লাহ — theologically compatible content, framing-sensitive phrasing. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Confession and Restoration | High | পাপস্বীকার ও পুনরুদ্ধার | James 5:15-20 | (none beyond primary) | confess_sins_to_one_another, turn_back_restore, cover_multitude_of_sins, sin, save_soul_from_death | Mutual, horizontal believer-to-believer confession must be distinguished from sacramental auricular confession and from Islamic tawbah (which lacks the horizontal-confession structure). “Covers a multitude of sins” needs a note preventing readers from concluding restoration itself accomplishes atonement, which would contradict the Romans baseline’s Christ-alone atonement doctrine (Romans 3:25). | Human theologian |
Tier totals (must match doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly): Critical = 5, High = 8, Medium = 2, Low = 0. Total requiring theologian review = 13; total requiring native speaker review = 2; total automated-only = 0. ✅ Confirmed consistent.
2. Chapter-by-Chapter and Section-by-Section Coverage Confirmation
| Chapter | Verse Range | Active Doctrine(s) | Coverage Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1:1 | (greeting; no new doctrinal load) | Reviewed — no load-bearing doctrine; proper names only (James, established Bengali form জাকোব/যাকোব’s letter title — see glossary for book-title convention). |
| 1 | 1:2-4 | Trials and the Testing of Faith | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #3). |
| 1 | 1:5-8 | Wisdom from Above; (double-minded, Medium risk, glossary §3) | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #5). |
| 1 | 1:9-11 | Favoritism and the Poor | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #7). |
| 1 | 1:12 | Trials and the Testing of Faith | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #3). |
| 1 | 1:13-15 | Temptation and the Source of Sin | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #4) — the book’s second Critical doctrine. |
| 1 | 1:16-18 | Trials and the Testing of Faith (Father of lights, God’s unchanging goodness) | Reviewed and folded into Doctrine #3’s extended coverage; no independent doctrine required. |
| 1 | 1:19-21 | Wisdom from Above (word of truth / implanted word) | Reviewed and folded into Doctrine #5’s extended coverage. |
| 1 | 1:22-25 | True Religion and the Law of Liberty; Faith and Works (doer of the word anticipates 2:14-26) | Fully analyzed (Doctrines #1, #6). |
| 1 | 1:26-27 | True Religion and the Law of Liberty; Taming the Tongue (introductory mention) | Fully analyzed (Doctrines #6, #8). |
| 2 | 2:1-13 | Favoritism and the Poor | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #7). |
| 2 | 2:14-26 | Faith and Works; Justification (Evidential vs. Forensic); Physical Healing versus Eternal Salvation (2:14’s σῴζω) | Fully analyzed — the core passage, anchoring Doctrines #1, #2, #12. |
| 3 | 3:1 | Truthful Speech and Oaths (teacher) | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #9). |
| 3 | 3:1-12 | Taming the Tongue | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #8). |
| 3 | 3:13-18 | Wisdom from Above | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #5). |
| 4 | 4:1-10 | Worldliness versus Friendship with God | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #10). |
| 4 | 4:11-12 | Worldliness versus Friendship with God (Lawgiver/Judge extension) | Reviewed and folded into Doctrine #10’s extended coverage. |
| 4 | 4:13-17 | Patience and the Lord’s Return (contingency formula) | Reviewed and folded into Doctrine #14’s extended coverage. |
| 5 | 5:1-6 | Favoritism and the Poor | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #7). |
| 5 | 5:7-11 | Patience and the Lord’s Return | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #14). |
| 5 | 5:12 | Truthful Speech and Oaths | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #9). |
| 5 | 5:13-15 | Prayer and Healing; Physical Healing versus Eternal Salvation | Fully analyzed (Doctrines #11, #12). |
| 5 | 5:16-18 | Effective Prayer of the Righteous | Fully analyzed (Doctrine #13). |
| 5 | 5:19-20 | Confession and Restoration; Physical Healing versus Eternal Salvation (save_soul_from_death) | Fully analyzed (Doctrines #15, #12). |
Coverage conclusion: All five chapters of James, and every verse-range within them, are accounted for above. No section is silently omitted. Sections without an independently ranked doctrine (1:1, 1:16-18, 1:19-21, 4:11-12, 4:13-17) are explicitly noted as reviewed and folded into an adjacent doctrine’s extended coverage, per the PRD Phase 1 full-book-coverage mandate.
3. Consistency Statement
This doctrine matrix uses the identical doctrine set, Bengali doctrine names, risk tiers, and review routing recorded in assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (James, v1). No doctrine, risk tier, or routing decision in this document contradicts that registry or the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json. This document extends coverage to every chapter and verse-range of James; the registry remains the authoritative source for Phase 2 routing logic.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Faith and Works
Bengali name: বিশ্বাস ও কাজ
Key terms: faith, works, dead_faith, cooperated_with_works, completed_by_works, friend_of_god, demons, one_god_confession
Review routing: Human theologian
James’s argument that ‘faith apart from works is dead’ stands in famous surface tension with the Romans baseline’s justification-by-faith-alone doctrine. The Critical risk is compounded by the mandatory rejection of কর্ম for ‘works’ (which in Bengali carries Hindu karma-merit connotations, the theological inverse of James’s fruit-not-cause argument) and by the demons’-orthodoxy example (James 2:19), which parallels the baseline’s rejection of ঈমান for ‘faith’ precisely because bare creedal monotheism (paralleling Islamic tawhid confession) does not save. Every segment requires human theologian review.
Justification: Evidential Vindication (James) vs. Forensic Declaration (Romans)
Bengali name: কাজের দ্বারা ধার্মিক বলে প্রমাণিত হওয়া
Key terms: justified_by_works, faith_alone_phrase, imputed_righteousness, righteousness
Review routing: Human theologian
The single highest-stakes doctrinal risk in the entire book. James’s Abraham/Rahab argument uses ধার্মিক বলে গণ্য হওয়া (the Romans baseline’s forensic-justification phrase) in an evidential/vindicating sense, while quoting the identical Genesis 15:6 text Paul quotes in Romans 4:3 as his own premise. Rendering James’s usage with a DIFFERENT Bengali phrase than Romans would fracture cross-document consistency; rendering it identically WITHOUT a disambiguating theologian-reviewed note risks Bengali readers concluding Scripture contradicts itself on the ground of a sinner’s right standing before God. Mandatory for every occurrence (2:21, 2:24, 2:25).
Patience and the Lord’s Return
Bengali name: ধৈর্য ও প্রভুর পুনরাগমন
Key terms: patience_makrothymia, endurance, parousia, judge, example_job
Review routing: Human theologian
παρουσία τοῦ κυρίου must never be softened into a vague spiritual ‘presence’ divorced from a genuine future, personal, visible return — parallel to the Romans baseline’s demand that resurrection and lordship claims never be spiritualized away. This is a live point of doctrinal distinction, not mere overlap, from both the Hindu cyclical-time framework and the Islamic eschatological expectation of Isa’s return (which denies his prior death and resurrection). Separately, μακροθυμία (ধৈর্য, patient waiting) must be kept lexically distinct from ὑπομονή (সহিষ্ণুতা, active endurance under pressure, chapter 1 and 5:11’s Job reference) even though both gloss loosely as ‘patience’ in English.
Physical Healing versus Eternal Salvation
Bengali name: শারীরিক আরোগ্য বনাম আত্মিক পরিত্রাণ
Key terms: physical_healing_save, salvation, save_soul_from_death, forgiveness_specific_sins
Review routing: Human theologian
The same Greek verb σῴζω spans both physical healing (5:15, rendered সুস্থ করা/রক্ষা করা) and eternal soteriological deliverance (2:14 and 5:20, rendered পরিত্রাণ) within this single short letter. Defaulting to the baseline’s Critical পরিত্রাণ term for the healing sense would wrongly equate physical recovery with eternal salvation — a serious doctrinal distortion given how easily Bengali readers from both prosperity-adjacent Christian and folk-healing-saturated Hindu/Muslim backgrounds could conflate physical cure with spiritual guarantee. Both senses must be flagged together in a single consolidated theologian-reviewed note.
Temptation and the Source of Sin
Bengali name: প্রলোভন ও পাপের উৎস
Key terms: temptation, desire_lust, sin
Review routing: Human theologian
James’s careful theological point — God tempts no one to sin; temptation arises from ἐπιθυμία (desire), not from God — collapses entirely if প্রলোভন (temptation) is ever rendered with পরীক্ষা (trial, used positively of God’s testing three verses earlier for the identical Greek lemma). Additionally, ἐπιθυμία must be rendered কুবাসনা/মন্দ অভিলাষ, not plain কামনা, to avoid resonance with the Hindu Kāma (legitimate desire/pleasure, one of the four puruṣārthas). Mistranslation here risks implying God is the author of sin, a doctrinally catastrophic error.
High Risk Doctrines
Confession and Restoration
Bengali name: পাপস্বীকার ও পুনরুদ্ধার
Key terms: confess_sins_to_one_another, turn_back_restore, cover_multitude_of_sins, sin, save_soul_from_death
Review routing: Human theologian
James’s picture of mutual, horizontal confession among believers (ἐξομολογεῖσθε ἀλλήλοις) must be distinguished from the sacramental auricular confession to an ordained priest found in Catholic/Orthodox practice and from the Islamic concept of tawbah (repentance directed to Allah without a horizontal-confession-to-others structure) — neither of which has the mutual, communal, restorative structure James describes among equals in the church body. ‘Covers a multitude of sins’ also requires a note preventing readers from concluding that restoring a wandering sinner itself accomplishes atonement, which would contradict the Romans baseline’s Christ-alone atonement framework (Romans 3:25).
Favoritism and the Poor
Bengali name: পক্ষপাতিত্ব ও দরিদ্রজন
Key terms: favoritism, poor_rich, heirs_of_kingdom, kingdom_of_god, lord_of_hosts, mercy
Review routing: Human theologian
James’s prohibition of προσωπολημψία directly confronts social-status hierarchy; in the Bengali context this intersects with residual caste-consciousness among Hindu-background believers and communal/class distinctions in Bangladeshi society, closely paralleling the Romans baseline’s universal_scope_of_gospel and unity_of_jews_and_gentiles risk profile. James 5:1-6’s rebuke of exploitative wealth, appealing to ‘the Lord of Sabaoth’ (Κύριος Σαβαώθ), must avoid শক্তি-based renderings for ‘hosts/might’ per the baseline’s power-of-God convention, given Bengal’s Shakta Hindu goddess-power associations.
Prayer and Healing
Bengali name: প্রার্থনা ও আরোগ্য
Key terms: sick_illness, anointing_with_oil, prayer_of_faith, raise_up_healing, elders, church
Review routing: Human theologian
ἀλείφω ἐλαίῳ (‘anoint with oil’) must explicitly avoid অভিষেক, the standard Bengali term for Hindu ritual deity-anointing (Durga Puja register) and for messianic/royal anointing, which risks a magical or sacramental reading of a simple faith-accompanying pastoral act; use তেল মাখানো with a mandatory note that healing is attributed to ‘the prayer of faith,’ not the oil. The instruction to call ‘the elders of the church’ must also be distinguished from shrine-based folk healing specialists (a pir’s tomb or Hindu holy man), per the Romans baseline’s prayer_and_intercession doctrine.
Taming the Tongue
Bengali name: জিহ্বাকে দমন করা
Key terms: tongue, bridle_control, hell_gehenna, likeness_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
γέεννα must be rendered নরক for lack of a superior established alternative, but নরক is also the standard Bengali term for the Hindu Naraka, a temporary, karma-exhausting hell prior to rebirth; every occurrence requires a note distinguishing biblical hell’s final, non-cyclical nature, parallel to the baseline’s resurrection/reincarnation distinction. Separately, ‘made in God’s likeness’ must reject প্রতিমা (the standard term for a Hindu deity’s ritual idol, central to Durga Puja) to avoid implying humans are idol-representations of God rather than bearers of his relational/moral likeness.
Trials and the Testing of Faith
Bengali name: পরীক্ষা ও বিশ্বাসের প্রমাণ
Key terms: trial, testing_genuineness, endurance, perfect_mature, gift
Review routing: Human theologian
The doctrinal risk here is primarily disambiguation: πειρασμός is rendered পরীক্ষা in this trial sense but must never be confused with প্রলোভন (temptation, James 1:13-14), the same Greek lemma used three verses later with opposite moral valence. τέλειος (‘perfect/complete’) must reject সিদ্ধ, the Bengali Hindu/yogic term for a spiritually perfected ‘siddha’ being with supernatural attainment, in favor of পরিপূর্ণ.
True Religion and the Law of Liberty
Bengali name: সত্য ধর্মাচরণের সংজ্ঞা
Key terms: religion_true, law_of_liberty, law, orphans_widows
Review routing: Human theologian
θρησκεία (James 1:27) is the one place in this curriculum where ধর্ম is the theologically correct rendering, deliberately breaking from the Romans baseline’s Critical prohibition of ধর্ম for ‘righteousness.’ Every use requires a mandatory note explaining this is not a countermand of that baseline rule, since θρησκεία answers ‘what does authentic religious practice look like?’ rather than ‘how is a person declared right before God?’ Separately, ‘law of liberty’ requires disambiguation from the ceremonial/Mosaic sense of ব্যবস্থা elsewhere, to prevent readers concluding James reintroduces law-keeping as the ground of salvation.
Wisdom from Above
Bengali name: ঊর্ধ্ব থেকে আসা প্রজ্ঞা
Key terms: wisdom, wisdom_from_above, earthly_wisdom, soulish_wisdom, demonic_wisdom, jealousy_selfish_ambition, peacemakers
Review routing: Human theologian
σοφία must be rendered প্রজ্ঞা, not জ্ঞান, because জ্ঞান carries strong Hindu jñāna-mārga (‘path of knowledge’ toward liberation/moksha in Vedantic thought) associations that would import a liberation-through-knowledge soteriology foreign to James’s practical, relational, God-given wisdom. ψυχική (‘soulish/natural’) has no settled Bengali Bible precedent and risks under-translation without an explanatory gloss.
Worldliness versus Friendship with God
Bengali name: জগৎপ্রীতি বনাম ঈশ্বরের মিত্রতা
Key terms: world, friendship_with_world, enmity_with_god, pleasure, adulterous_spiritual, submit_to_god, devil, friend_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
κόσμος must be rendered জগৎ, not সংসার, which in Bengali (both Hindu- and Muslim-background usage) denotes ordinary householder/domestic life and, in Hindu religious contexts, the cycle of worldly existence ascetics renounce for moksha — using সংসার would wrongly imply believers must renounce ordinary family and social life rather than the world’s value-system. Separately, the deliberate literary antithesis between ‘friend of God’ (2:23) and ‘friendship with the world’ (4:4) must share the same মিত্র root in Bengali to be perceptible to readers. ὑποτάγητε (‘submit to God,’ 4:7) closely parallels the root meaning of ‘Islam’ (submission), a theologically compatible but framing-sensitive point of contact requiring native-speaker judgment in addition to theologian sign-off on doctrinal content.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Effective Prayer of the Righteous (Elijah Example)
Bengali name: ধার্মিক ব্যক্তির ফলপ্রসূ প্রার্থনা
Key terms: effective_prayer, righteousness
Review routing: Native speaker review
ἰσχύει (‘is effective/powerful’) must avoid any শক্তি-root compound, applying the Romans baseline’s power-of-God convention by analogy to prevent reintroducing Bengal’s strong Shakta goddess-power association in this different verse; ফলপ্রসূ/সামর্থ্যবান are preferred. The Elijah reference also presumes OT narrative literacy generally lacking in the target audience, a background-literacy concern more than a lexical one, suitable for native speaker review.
Truthful Speech and Oaths
Bengali name: সত্যবাদিতা ও শপথ
Key terms: oaths, teacher
Review routing: Native speaker review
The prohibition on oath-taking sits in tension with common Bengali social and legal custom (court oaths, marriage vows), requiring pastoral framing rather than a purely lexical fix; the doctrinal content itself is not obscured by any specific Bengali religious-vocabulary collision, so native speaker review (rather than theologian review) is sufficient.
Referenced passages