Doctrine Analysis
11 Doctrine Analysis — 1 Corinthians (Full-Book Coverage)
Purpose
This document provides the full doctrine matrix for 1 Corinthians 1–16, chapter by chapter, consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (27 doctrines; same names, same risk tiers). It satisfies the PRD Phase 1 full-book-coverage mandate: every chapter is explicitly reviewed, whether or not it introduces new doctrinal or terminological load. The core passage (15:1–11) is the theological anchor of the curriculum but is not treated as the scope boundary — every chapter of the book is analyzed below.
Myanmar Bible citation form for this book: ၁ကောရိန္သု (1 Corinthians). Citations in this document use Arabic numerals per the working segment-cache convention established in the baseline (12_ai_translation_requirements.md, Cross-Reference Preservation Rules).
Master Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine (registry key) | Burmese Doctrine Name | Supporting Passages (1 Corinthians) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gospel_tradition | သတင်းကောင်း၏ လက်ခံ၍အပ်ပေးရသော အစဉ်အလာ | 1:17-18; 9:12-18; 15:1-11 | Critical | The technical receive/deliver (παραλαμβάνω/παραδίδωμι) vocabulary marks a fixed, eyewitness-verified historical creed; must not be reduced to devotional sentiment or a report of religious feeling. | Human theologian |
| 2 | resurrection_of_christ_and_believers | ခရစ်တော်နှင့် ယုံကြည်သူတို့၏ ထမြောက်ခြင်း | 15:1-58 (entire chapter) | Critical | Must never be rendered through rebirth/samsara vocabulary (ပဋိသန္ဓေတည်ခြင်း) or the cyclical anicca worldview; bodily, permanent, one-time transformation. | Human theologian |
| 3 | christian_unity_versus_factionalism | ခရစ်ယာန်တို့၏ စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ခြင်း | 1:10-17; 3:1-9; 4:6-7 | High | Loyalty-factions must read as relational quarreling within one body, not institutional sectarianism (avoid ဂိုဏ်းကွဲမှု/nikaya-schism framing). | Human theologian |
| 4 | cross_as_wisdom_and_power | လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်တော်သည် ပညာတော်နှင့် တန်ခိုးတော်ဖြစ်ခြင်း | 1:18-31; 2:1-16 | Critical | ပညာ is the exact Burmese term for self-attained paññā; every occurrence must be qualified as God’s revealed wisdom in a crucified Messiah, never self-attained insight. | Human theologian |
| 5 | church_discipline_and_holiness | အသင်းတော်၏ စည်းကမ်းထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်းနှင့် သန့်ရှင်းခြင်း | 5:1-13; 6:1-11; 6:18-20 | High | Congregational discipline (chs.5-6) risks conflation with eschatological judgment (ch.4) via the shared phrase စစ်ဆေးစီရင်ခြင်း; holiness must not read as ritual purification or precept-merit. | Human theologian |
| 6 | marriage_and_singleness | အိမ်ထောင်ရေးနှင့် လူပျို/အပျိုဘဝ | 7:1-40 | Medium | Singleness must not be assimilated to merit-superior monastic renunciation (ရဟန်းပြု); marriage must not read as merely inferior. | Native speaker |
| 7 | christian_liberty_and_idol_meat | ခရစ်ယာန်လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်နှင့် ရုပ်တုအားပူဇော်ထားသောအစားအစာ | 8:1-13; 10:1-33 | Critical | Direct functional parallel to nat-food offerings and pagoda merit-food; must preserve both “food is neutral” (8:4) and “participation in worship is forbidden” (10:20-21) without collapsing into either a purity taboo or prasad-like sanctification. | Human theologian |
| 8 | lords_supper | သခင်ဘုရား၏ ညစာတော်ပွဲ | 10:16-21; 11:17-34 | Critical | Must be distinguished from ဆွမ်းကျွေးခြင်း (merit-feeding monks) and nat food-offerings; a faith-received memorial/proclamation, not a merit-generating or appeasement ritual. | Human theologian |
| 9 | spiritual_gifts_and_body_of_christ | ဝိညာဉ်ဆုကျေးဇူးနှင့် ခရစ်တော်၏ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာတော် | 12:1-31; 14:1-40 | High | Must not be read as merit-earned or weizza-style occult power; sovereignly distributed by the Spirit for the common good, not self-attained through discipline. | Human theologian |
| 10 | love_as_greater_way | မေတ္တာတရား — သာလွန်ကောင်းမြတ်သော လမ်းစဉ် | 13:1-13; 16:14; 16:22-24 | Critical | မေတ္တာ collides directly with the named first Brahmavihāra; every occurrence requires an explicit note distinguishing Spirit-given, cross-modeled, relationally-costly ἀγάπη from self-cultivated, impersonal mettā-bhāvanā. | Human theologian |
| 11 | order_in_worship | ဝတ်ပြုခြင်း၌ အစဉ်အလိုက်ကျင့်သုံးခြင်း | 11:2-16; 14:1-40 | High | Tongues risk conflation with nat-medium (နတ်ကတော်) trance-possession speech; headship language (11:3) must retain the mutuality of 11:11-12. | Human theologian |
| 12 | grace | ကျေးဇူးတော် | 1:4; 3:10; 6:20; 15:10 | Critical | 15:10 (“not I, but the grace of God”) is a premier text where Paul’s labor must be shown as grace’s fruit, never its co-equal merit-partner; guard against ကုသိုလ်/ကံကောင်းခြင်း substitution. | Human theologian |
| 13 | sainthood_calling | သန့်ရှင်းသူအဖြစ် ခေါ်တော်မူခြင်း | 1:2; 6:11 | Medium | All believers are saints by God’s calling despite visible dysfunction; not an ascetic elite comparable to ရဟန္တာ. | Native speaker |
| 14 | apostleship_and_ministry | တမန်တော်ဖြစ်ခြင်းနှင့် အမှုတော်ဆောင်ခြင်း | 1:1; 4:1-2; 9:1-27; 15:9-10 | Medium | Apostles/ministers are Christ’s accountable servants/stewards, not factional champions or ဆရာတော်-style senior-teacher figures. | Native speaker |
| 15 | sin_and_accountability | အပြစ်နှင့် အသင်းတော်၏ တာဝန်ခံမှု | 5:1-13; 6:9-11; 15:3 | High | Sin is moral transgression before a personal God requiring atonement (15:3) and communal correction (ch.5), not အကုသိုလ် (impersonal karmic demerit). | Human theologian |
| 16 | body_as_temple_and_resurrection_hope | ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာသည် ဗိမာန်တော်ဖြစ်ခြင်းနှင့် ထမြောက်ခြင်းမျှော်လင့်ချက် | 3:16-17; 6:13-20; 15:35-54 | Critical | The body has lasting dignity, is Spirit-indwelt, and is destined for resurrection — must counter any framing of embodiment as spiritually negligible or an obstacle to be transcended. | Human theologian |
| 17 | idolatry_and_spiritual_powers | ရုပ်တုကိုးကွယ်ခြင်းနှင့် နတ်ဆိုးတို့၏ တန်ခိုး | 8:4-6; 10:14-22 | Critical | Active idol worship is participation with hostile spiritual powers; the morally ambivalent Burmese “nat” category risks softening this flatly stated prohibition. | Human theologian |
| 18 | baptism_into_christs_body | ခရစ်တော်၏ ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာတော်ထဲသို့ နှစ်ခြင်းဗတ္တိဇံခံယူခြင်း | 12:12-13 | Critical | The Spirit’s incorporating act must be distinguished from ritual purification bathing and from water baptism as an ordinance. | Human theologian |
| 19 | eschatological_hope_and_second_coming | နောင်တစ်ချိန်ဆိုင်ရာ မျှော်လင့်ချက်နှင့် သခင်ဘုရားကြွလာတော်မူခြင်း | 15:20-28; 15:51-58; 16:22 | High | Hope is grounded in specific, already-guaranteed promises, not favorable-rebirth aspiration; “Marana tha” (16:22) must be glossed, never treated as an incantation. | Human theologian |
| 20 | church_as_gods_people | ဘုရားသခင်၏ လူစုအဖြစ် အသင်းတော် | 1:2; 12:12-27 | Medium | A new-covenant community organically united to Christ, not a monastery-centered institution or voluntary social club. | Native speaker |
| 21 | faith | ယုံကြည်ခြင်း | 2:5; 13:13; 15:2, 11, 14 | Medium | Trust in the specific historical person and events of the gospel (15:1-11), not experiential confidence in a teaching (သဒ္ဓါ-style). | Native speaker |
| 22 | holy_spirit_and_spiritual_discernment | သန့်ရှင်းသောဝိညာဉ်တော်နှင့် ဝိညာဉ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ ပိုင်းခြားသိမြင်နိုင်မှု | 2:6-16; 3:16; 6:19; 12:1-11 | Critical | The Spirit is a personal, permanent divine Person, never ဝိညာဉ်/နတ်ဝိညာဉ် alone, and never conflated with anatta’s denial of a permanent self. | Human theologian |
| 23 | covenant_fulfillment_in_the_lords_supper | သခင်ဘုရား၏ ညစာတော်ပွဲ၌ ပဋိညာဉ်သစ်၏ ပြည့်စုံခြင်း | 11:25 | High | Requires explicit OT covenant/sacrificial background teaching; blood inaugurates promised covenant, not a ritual appeasement or merit offering. | Human theologian |
| 24 | self_control_and_christian_liberty | မိမိကိုယ်ကိုချုပ်တည်းခြင်းနှင့် ခရစ်ယာန်လွတ်လပ်ခွင့် | 7:9; 8:9-13; 9:24-27 | Medium | Spirit-enabled virtue in ordinary life, not ascetic merit technique. | Native speaker |
| 25 | judgment_and_church_discipline_practice | အသင်းတော်၏ စစ်ဆေးစီရင်ခြင်းအလေ့အကျင့် | 4:3-5; 5:12-13; 6:1-6 | Medium | The same Burmese phrase serves both eschatological-judgment and present-discipline senses; context must disambiguate. | Native speaker |
| 26 | christian_fellowship_and_mutual_edification | ခရစ်ယာန်မိတ်သဟာယနှင့် အချင်းချင်းတည်ဆောက်ခြင်း | 1:9; 14:3, 12, 26 | Low | Minimal risk outside the elevated Lord’s-Supper-specific sense in ch.10 (separately flagged). | Automated |
| 27 | thanksgiving | ကျေးဇူးတင်ခြင်း | 1:4; 14:16-18 | Low | Minor risk of collapsing into ritual merit-dedication language (ကုသိုလ်ရှေးရေး). | Automated |
Risk totals (must match doctrine_risk_registry.json): Critical 11 · High 7 · Medium 7 · Low 2 · Total 27 · Theologian review 18 · Native speaker review 7 · Automated only 2.
Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage (Full-Book Mandate)
Every chapter of 1 Corinthians is confirmed reviewed below. No chapter is silently omitted.
| Ch. | Active Doctrines (registry keys) | Coverage Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | gospel_tradition; christian_unity_versus_factionalism; cross_as_wisdom_and_power; grace; sainthood_calling; apostleship_and_ministry; christian_fellowship_and_mutual_edification; thanksgiving | Opening thanksgiving, factionalism introduced, cross-as-wisdom thesis begins. |
| 2 | cross_as_wisdom_and_power; holy_spirit_and_spiritual_discernment; faith | Spirit-revealed wisdom vs. human wisdom; spiritual/natural person contrast. |
| 3 | christian_unity_versus_factionalism; body_as_temple_and_resurrection_hope; grace | ”Fleshly” believers; church/body as God’s temple (3:16-17); Christ as sole foundation. |
| 4 | apostleship_and_ministry; judgment_and_church_discipline_practice | Stewardship of apostles; eschatological-judgment sense of κρίνω introduced. |
| 5 | church_discipline_and_holiness; sin_and_accountability | Congregational discipline case; leaven metaphor; Passover/Christ typology. |
| 6 | church_discipline_and_holiness; sin_and_accountability; body_as_temple_and_resurrection_hope; grace | Lawsuits among believers; sexual immorality; body as temple; “bought with a price.” |
| 7 | marriage_and_singleness; self_control_and_christian_liberty; church_as_gods_people (calling) | Marriage, celibacy, divorce, and calling-in-life-situation teaching. |
| 8 | christian_liberty_and_idol_meat; self_control_and_christian_liberty | Idol-food liberty bounded by love for the weak brother. |
| 9 | apostleship_and_ministry; self_control_and_christian_liberty | Paul’s apostolic rights forgone; athletic self-discipline metaphor. |
| 10 | christian_liberty_and_idol_meat; idolatry_and_spiritual_powers; lords_supper (10:16-21) | Israel’s wilderness warning-pattern; idolatry as participation with hostile powers; table of the Lord. |
| 11 | order_in_worship; lords_supper; covenant_fulfillment_in_the_lords_supper | Head covering/headship; institution and abuse of the Lord’s Supper. |
| 12 | spiritual_gifts_and_body_of_christ; baptism_into_christs_body; holy_spirit_and_spiritual_discernment; church_as_gods_people | One Spirit, many gifts; incorporation into the one body. |
| 13 | love_as_greater_way; faith | The love chapter; faith/hope/love triad. |
| 14 | order_in_worship; christian_fellowship_and_mutual_edification | Tongues, prophecy, and orderly worship regulation. |
| 15 | resurrection_of_christ_and_believers; gospel_tradition; eschatological_hope_and_second_coming; faith; sin_and_accountability | Core passage (15:1-11) plus the full resurrection argument (15:12-58). |
| 16 | eschatological_hope_and_second_coming (marana tha); love_as_greater_way (anathema, 16:22-24); christian_fellowship_and_mutual_edification; thanksgiving | Closing commendations, collection, benediction, and solemn covenant-curse/blessing. |
Coverage confirmation: All 16 chapters reviewed; none contribute zero doctrinal or terminological load, and none are omitted from Phase 2 scope.
This document is consistent with and must not contradict assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json, translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, or 08_core_glossary.md. Any future revision to doctrine names or risk tiers must update all four artifacts together with a version increment.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Baptism into Christ’s Body
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၏ ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာတော်ထဲသို့ နှစ်ခြင်းဗတ္တိဇံခံယူခြင်း
Key terms: spirit_baptism, body_of_christ, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: The Spirit’s own act of incorporating believers of every ethnic and social background into Christ’s one body must be distinguished from ritual purification bathing (ရေချိုးသန့်စင်ခြင်း, already rejected in the baseline for sanctification) and treated as a spiritual reality prior to and distinct from water baptism as an ordinance.
The Body as Temple and Resurrection Hope
Burmese name: ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာသည် ဗိမာန်တော်ဖြစ်ခြင်းနှင့် ထမြောက်ခြင်းမျှော်လင့်ချက်
Key terms: body, temple, bought_with_a_price, spiritual_body
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: The body must be taught as possessing lasting dignity, Spirit-indwelt now and destined for bodily resurrection — directly countering any framing (e.g., meditation on the body’s foulness/asubha, or a view of embodiment as an obstacle to be transcended toward an ultimately bodiless liberation) that treats the body as spiritually negligible. ဗိမာန်တော် applied to an ordinary human body (6:19) is a startling claim requiring explicit teaching, since Burmese religious vocabulary for ‘temple’ otherwise evokes a consecrated shrine-building, not a person.
Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Burmese name: ခရစ်ယာန်လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်နှင့် ရုပ်တုအားပူဇော်ထားသောအစားအစာ
Key terms: idol, food_offered_to_idols, idolatry, demon, knowledge, conscience, weak_brother, temptation
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Food previously offered to idols has a direct functional parallel in Burmese religious life to food offered to nats (ကပ်လှူသောအစာ) and to merit-offerings at pagodas (ဆွမ်းကပ်ခြင်း); and the NT category of δαιμόνιον as a power consistently hostile to God does not map cleanly onto the morally ambivalent Burmese category of ‘nat’ (နတ်), many venerated as protective. Teaching must preserve Paul’s actual argument — the food itself is not contaminated (8:4), but participation in idol worship is participation with hostile spiritual powers (10:20-21) — governed by love toward the weak, not a simple purity taboo.
The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Burmese name: လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်တော်သည် ပညာတော်နှင့် တန်ခိုးတော်ဖြစ်ခြင်း
Key terms: cross, wisdom_of_god, foolishness, spiritual_person, natural_person, power_of_god, mystery
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: ပညာ (wisdom) is the precise Burmese term for paññā, the self-attained liberating insight of the Buddhist Threefold Training, arrived at through one’s own moral and meditative discipline. Every reference to God’s wisdom in the cross must be qualified as ဘုရားသခင်၏ပညာတော် — wisdom revealed and given by God, centered on a crucified Messiah, appearing as foolishness to unaided human reason — never self-attained meditative insight.
The Gospel as Received and Delivered Tradition
Burmese name: သတင်းကောင်း၏ လက်ခံ၍အပ်ပေးရသော အစဉ်အလာ
Key terms: gospel, received_delivered_tradition, appeared
Review routing: Human theologian
The gospel’s fixed, eyewitness-verified content (death, burial, resurrection, appearances) anchors the whole letter. Burmese religious tradition has no exact category for a communally-transmitted, historically-verifiable creed of this kind; သတင်းကောင်း must not be reduced to devotional sentiment but must retain its evidentiary, historical weight, especially given the technical παραλαμβάνω/παραδίδωμι receive-deliver vocabulary of 15:1,3.
Grace
Burmese name: ကျေးဇူးတော်
Key terms: grace, bought_with_a_price
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: As in Romans, grace as unearned favor cuts directly against the daily lay practice of merit-making (ကုသိုလ်ပြုခြင်း). 1 Corinthians 15:10 (‘not I, but the grace of God’) is a premier text where Paul’s own vigorous labor must be shown as grace’s genuine fruit, not its co-equal merit-partner.
The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Discernment
Burmese name: သန့်ရှင်းသောဝိညာဉ်တော်နှင့် ဝိညာဉ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ ပိုင်းခြားသိမြင်နိုင်မှု
Key terms: holy_spirit, spiritual_person, natural_person, mystery
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: The Holy Spirit must be taught as the third, personal, permanent divine Person who reveals God’s hidden wisdom and indwells believers — never ဝိညာဉ် alone or နတ်ဝိညာဉ်, and never conflated with Theravada anatta’s denial of any permanent self/spirit-entity. Spirit-given discernment (2:14-15) is categorically different from a self-cultivated meditative consciousness-state.
Idolatry and Spiritual Powers
Burmese name: ရုပ်တုကိုးကွယ်ခြင်းနှင့် နတ်ဆိုးတို့၏ တန်ခိုး
Key terms: idol, idolatry, demon
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Distinct from and stronger than the eating-liberty question of ch.8, active idol worship (ch.10) is flatly forbidden as participation with spiritual powers hostile to God. The Burmese folk category of ‘nat’ being morally ambivalent (many venerated as protective) risks softening this warning; teaching must clarify the warning extends to veneration of any spiritual power behind false worship, however benevolent it may be popularly regarded.
The Lord’s Supper
Burmese name: သခင်ဘုရား၏ ညစာတော်ပွဲ
Key terms: lords_supper, bread, cup, blood_of_christ, remembrance, covenant, table_of_the_lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Must be clearly distinguished from the Buddhist merit-feeding ritual of offering food to monks (ဆွမ်းကျွေးခြင်း) and from ancestral/nat food offerings. The Supper is a corporate, faith-received memorial and proclamation of Christ’s atoning death and promised return, not a merit-generating ritual act or an appeasement offering to a spiritual power; exclusive loyalty to ‘the Lord’s table’ (10:21) forbids sharing in pagan/spirit-table participation.
Love as the Greater Way
Burmese name: မေတ္တာတရား — သာလွန်ကောင်းမြတ်သော လမ်းစဉ်
Key terms: love, hope, patience, kindness, faith, anathema
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: မေတ္တာ is precisely the named first of the Four Brahmavihāra in Burmese Theravada Buddhism — a self-cultivated meditative state (mettā-bhāvanā) extended impersonally and equally toward all beings without necessarily personal relationship or sacrificial cost. Biblical ἀγάπη in ch.13 is a fruit of the Spirit modeled on Christ’s own self-giving death, exercised toward specific persons at real relational cost, and permanent rather than one meditative attainment to be transcended. No viable alternative term exists, so မေတ္တာ is retained per established Bible usage, but every occurrence requires an explicit distinguishing teaching note, on par with the baseline’s treatment of grace and mission.
The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်နှင့် ယုံကြည်သူတို့၏ ထမြောက်ခြင်း
Key terms: resurrection, spiritual_body, perishable_imperishable, appeared, victory, sting
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: The chapter’s argument (no resurrection of Christ = faith is vain, 15:14-19) and its extension to believers’ own bodily future (15:20-23,35-54) must never be rendered with ပဋိသန္ဓေတည်ခြင်း (rebirth into samsara) nor framed through the cyclical anicca (impermanence) worldview. Resurrection is a one-time, permanent, bodily transformation ending decay altogether, not one stage in an ongoing cycle of arising and passing away.
High Risk Doctrines
Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Burmese name: ခရစ်ယာန်တို့၏ စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ခြင်း
Key terms: schism, boasting, foundation, fleshly, imitators, church
Review routing: Human theologian
The Corinthians’ loyalty-factions (Paul/Apollos/Cephas/Christ) must be taught as relational quarreling within one body, not institutional sectarianism; the rejected rendering ဂိုဏ်းကွဲမှု carries strong Buddhist monastic-order (nikaya) and political-faction connotations that would recast the problem as competing religious institutions rather than division within a single church.
Church Discipline and Holiness
Burmese name: အသင်းတော်၏ စည်းကမ်းထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်းနှင့် သန့်ရှင်းခြင်း
Key terms: holy, sanctification, sexual_immorality, leaven, judge_discipline, temple
Review routing: Human theologian
Congregational discipline (κρίνω, chs.5-6) must be distinguished from eschatological judgment (ch.4) by context; both senses use the same Burmese phrase စစ်ဆေးစီရင်ခြင်း, risking conflation. Holiness pursued here is Spirit-produced set-apartness, not self-directed precept-observance or ritual purification comparable to pagoda-related bathing practices.
Covenant Fulfillment in the Lord’s Supper
Burmese name: သခင်ဘုရား၏ ညစာတော်ပွဲ၌ ပဋိညာဉ်သစ်၏ ပြည့်စုံခြင်း
Key terms: covenant, blood_of_christ, cup
Review routing: Human theologian
The ‘new covenant in my blood’ requires explicit Old Testament covenant/sacrificial background teaching (paralleling the baseline’s treatment of the Davidic covenant); Christ’s blood inaugurates the promised covenant, not a ritual blood-offering to appease a spiritual power or accrue merit.
Eschatological Hope and the Second Coming
Burmese name: နောင်တစ်ချိန်ဆိုင်ရာ မျှော်လင့်ချက်နှင့် သခင်ဘုရားကြွလာတော်မူခြင်း
Key terms: hope, marana_tha, resurrection, victory
Review routing: Human theologian
Christian hope is confident expectation grounded in specific, already-guaranteed promises (Christ’s resurrection and return), not a hoped-for improvement in one’s karmic position or favorable rebirth. The preserved Aramaic invocation ‘Marana tha’ (16:22) must be glossed with its meaning and taught as eager longing for Christ’s bodily return, never as a magical incantation or mantra-like formula.
Order in Worship
Burmese name: ဝတ်ပြုခြင်း၌ အစဉ်အလိုက်ကျင့်သုံးခြင်း
Key terms: headship, head_covering, tongues, interpretation, order, prophecy
Review routing: Human theologian
The gift of tongues (ch.14) risks conflation with Burmese folk nat-medium (နတ်ကတော်) trance-possession speech; must be taught as Spirit-given, self-controlled, intelligible-to-God utterance exercised by the speaker’s own will, always subject to orderly regulation — never involuntary trance possession. Headship language (11:3) requires care to preserve relational order/origin without erasing the mutuality Paul affirms in the same passage (11:11-12).
Sin and Church Accountability
Burmese name: အပြစ်နှင့် အသင်းတော်၏ တာဝန်ခံမှု
Key terms: sin, sexual_immorality, judge_discipline
Review routing: Human theologian
Sin is moral transgression before a personal God requiring both atonement (15:3) and communal correction (ch.5), not အကုသိုလ် (impersonal karmic demerit) that merely lowers one’s own future rebirth prospects without communal or relational dimension.
Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Burmese name: ဝိညာဉ်ဆုကျေးဇူးနှင့် ခရစ်တော်၏ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာတော်
Key terms: spiritual_gifts, body_of_christ, member, varieties_of_gifts, spirit_baptism
Review routing: Human theologian
Gifts are Spirit-sovereignly distributed enablements for the common good, not merit-earned or occult abilities comparable to those attributed to weizza-adept practice; the church’s organic unity as ‘one body’ with many members must be taught as union with Christ as living Head, not a voluntary club or shared merit-generating collective.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship and Ministry
Burmese name: တမန်တော်ဖြစ်ခြင်းနှင့် အမှုတော်ဆောင်ခြင်း
Key terms: apostle, servant, steward, prize, crown
Review routing: Native speaker review
Apostles/ministers are Christ’s servants and stewards accountable to him, not independent authorities to be factionally championed (chs.1-4) or teachers whose status is measured by respected-senior-monk (ဆရာတော်) standards.
Church as God’s People
Burmese name: ဘုရားသခင်၏ လူစုအဖြစ် အသင်းတော်
Key terms: church, body_of_christ, member
Review routing: Native speaker review
The church is a new-covenant community organically united to Christ, not a monastery-centered religious institution organized around a resident sangha, nor a mere voluntary social association.
Faith
Burmese name: ယုံကြည်ခြင်း
Key terms: faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
As in the Romans baseline, the cognate သဒ္ဓါ concept lowers risk of total incomprehension but requires care that faith remains trust in the specific historical person and events of the gospel (15:1-11), not experiential confidence in a teaching.
Judgment and Church Discipline in Practice
Burmese name: အသင်းတော်၏ စစ်ဆေးစီရင်ခြင်းအလေ့အကျင့်
Key terms: judge_discipline
Review routing: Native speaker review
The same Burmese phrase must serve both the eschatological-judgment sense (4:3-5, deferred to the Lord) and the present congregational-discipline sense (5:12-13; 6:1-6); native speaker review should confirm context correctly disambiguates each occurrence.
Marriage and Singleness
Burmese name: အိမ်ထောင်ရေးနှင့် လူပျို/အပျိုဘဝ
Key terms: marriage, virgin_unmarried, self_control, divorce, calling
Review routing: Native speaker review
Burmese Buddhist culture has no religious marriage sacrament and separately sacralizes monastic celibacy (ရဟန်းပြု/သီလရှင်ပြု) as a merit-earning renunciation superior to lay life; Pauline singleness must be taught as freely chosen, Spirit-enabled devotion to Christ’s service, not a higher merit-path, while marriage must be taught as a good creation gift, not merely a civil arrangement.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Burmese name: သန့်ရှင်းသူအဖြစ် ခေါ်တော်မူခြင်း
Key terms: saints, called, holy
Review routing: Native speaker review
All believers are saints by God’s calling despite the Corinthians’ visible dysfunction; not an ascetic elite comparable to a ရဟန္တာ (arahant) who has personally attained enlightenment through monastic discipline.
Self-Control and Christian Liberty
Burmese name: မိမိကိုယ်ကိုချုပ်တည်းခြင်းနှင့် ခရစ်ယာန်လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်
Key terms: self_control, weak_brother, knowledge, conscience
Review routing: Native speaker review
Self-control is a Spirit-enabled virtue exercised within ordinary married, single, or ministry life, not an ascetic technique for merit accumulation comparable to monastic discipline undertaken for kutho.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship and Mutual Edification
Burmese name: ခရစ်ယာန်မိတ်သဟာယနှင့် အချင်းချင်းတည်ဆောက်ခြင်း
Key terms: fellowship, member
Review routing: Automated review
Shared participation in Christ and mutual building-up; minimal doctrinal risk outside the elevated Lord’s-Supper-specific sense of κοινωνία in ch.10, which is separately flagged under the Lord’s Supper doctrine.
Thanksgiving
Burmese name: ကျေးဇူးတင်ခြင်း
Key terms: thanksgiving
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term; minor risk of collapsing into ritual merit-dedication language (ကုသိုလ်ရှေးရေး).
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