Doctrine Analysis
11 Doctrine Analysis — 2 Corinthians (Full-Book Matrix)
This matrix is fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (v1, generated 2026-07-09): same 22 doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing. It adds chapter-by-chapter coverage confirmation required under the PRD’s full-book-coverage mandate. The core passage, 2 Corinthians 5:11–21, anchors three Critical doctrines (Reconciliation with God, New Creation in Christ, Substitutionary Atonement) but is never treated as the boundary of analysis — every chapter of the book (1–13) is walked below.
All baseline Romans Critical items (God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Grace, Salvation, Resurrection, Righteousness, Justification, Lord, Son of God, Incarnation, Messiah, Father, Imputed Righteousness) remain fully in force wherever they recur in 2 Corinthians and are not re-tiered here; see 08_core_glossary.md Section A for their chapter occurrences in this book.
Doctrine Matrix (22 doctrines, matching doctrine_risk_registry.json)
| # | Doctrine | Burmese Doctrine Name | Risk | Supporting Passages (2 Corinthians) | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reconciliation with God | ဘုရားသခင်နှင့် သင့်မြတ်ခြင်း | Critical | 5:11-21 | Core-passage doctrine. God is sole initiating agent; must never be rendered through nat-propitiation logic where the offended party must be appeased by the offender. | Human theologian |
| 2 | New Creation in Christ | ခရစ်တော်၌ ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်းအသစ် | Critical | 5:17 | ဖန်ဆင်း (Genesis-creative verb) required; must not read as favorable rebirth outcome or self-cultivated meditative transformation. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Substitutionary Atonement | ကိုယ်စားအစားထိုး၍ ရာဇဝတ်ခံတော်မူခြင်း | Critical | 5:14-15, 5:21 | Sharp legal-substitutionary paradox (“made him to be sin… become the righteousness of God”) must not soften into generic karma-bearing. | Human theologian |
| 4 | Suffering and Comfort in Ministry | အမှုတော်ဆောင်ရာတွင် ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခနှင့် နှစ်သိမ့်ခြင်း | High | 1:3-11; 4:7-18; 6:4-10; 7:4-7; 11:23-29 | ဒုက္ခ overlaps Buddhism’s First Noble Truth; Paul’s affliction is temporary, purposeful, relationally comforted, hope-producing — mandatory translator note every occurrence. | Human theologian |
| 5 | The New Covenant versus the Old | ပဋိညာဉ်သစ်နှင့် ပဋိညာဉ်ဟောင်း | Critical | 3:1-18 | Requires OT background (Mosaic covenant, veiled face of Moses); fulfillment not mere replacement; “letter kills” not a rejection of Scripture. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Sincerity and Apostolic Authority | ရိုးဖြောင့်မှုနှင့် တမန်တော်ဇာတိအခွင့်အာဏာ | High | 1:12; 2:14-17; 4:2; 5:11-13; 10:12-18 | Risk of collapsing into monk/teacher-endorsement-seeking honor dynamics; true commendation is the Lord’s own. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Generosity and Grace in Giving | ကျေးဇူးတော်ဖြင့် စွန့်ကြဲလှူဒါန်းခြင်း | Critical | 8:1-24; 9:1-15 | Highest-stakes collision: လှူဒါန်း/ဒါန (merit-almsgiving) vs. grace-motivated giving in response to grace already received. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Power in Weakness | အားနည်းခြင်း၌ ဘုရားသခင်၏တန်ခိုးတော် | Critical | 4:7-12; 10:3-5; 12:7-10; 13:4 | Must not be moralized as a cultivated ascetic virtue; power operates through, not because of, weakness, and rests wholly on unearned grace. | Human theologian |
| 9 | Genuine versus False Apostleship | စစ်မှန်သော တမန်တော်နှင့် တမန်တော်အတု | Critical | 11:1-15; 11:20-23; 12:11-13; 13:1-5 | False apostles are deliberate impostors linked to demonic deception, not merely rival teachers with a different opinion. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Ministry of the Spirit | ဝိညာဉ်တော်၏ အမှုတော် | High | 3:6-8; 3:17-18 | Must retain the Spirit’s actual personal, life-giving activity, not a merely literary/rhetorical letter-vs-spirit contrast. | Human theologian |
| 11 | Sanctification and Progressive Transformation | သန့်ရှင်းခြင်းနှင့် အသီးအသီးပြောင်းလဲခြင်း | High | 3:18; 4:16; 7:9-11 | Distinguish Spirit-wrought transformation from self-directed meditative mind-change and from karmic self-improvement regret. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Church as God’s Temple | ဘုရားသခင်၏ ဗိမာန်တော်အဖြစ် အသင်းတော် | Medium | 6:16 | ဗိမာန်တော် reserved for the Jerusalem temple; never pagoda/monastery vocabulary already forbidden for “church.” | Native speaker review |
| 13 | Holiness of Partnership (Unequal Yoking) | သန့်ရှင်းသော ဆက်ဆံရေး - မတူညီသော ဇက်ဖြင့် မတွဲထမ်းရခြင်း | Medium | 6:14-18 | Pastoral application to a majority-Buddhist social context requires care; not a blanket prohibition of ordinary social/family ties. | Native speaker review |
| 14 | Godly Sorrow and Repentance | ဘုရားသခင်နှစ်သက်တော်မူသော ဝမ်းနည်းခြင်းနှင့် နောင်တရခြင်း | Medium | 2:5-11; 7:8-11 | Distinguish from ဝိပ္ပတိသာရ (self-directed karmic regret); relationally oriented toward God, producing forgiveness not restored merit. | Native speaker review |
| 15 | Spiritual Warfare and Deception | ဝိညာဉ်ရေးရာစစ်ပွဲနှင့် လှည့်ဖြားမှု | Critical | 2:11; 11:3; 11:14-15; 12:7 | စာတန် must never be rendered as မာရ်နတ် (Mara) or conflated with the graded nat-spirit hierarchy; disguise-as-benevolent must not soften into ambivalent folk-nat duality. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Eschatological Accountability (Judgment Seat of Christ) | ခရစ်တော်၏ တရားစီရင်ပလ္လင်တော်ရှေ့ ရပ်ရမည့် တာဝန်ခံမှု | High | 5:10-11 | Must not be read through the impersonal karmic-ledger/rebirth-determining metaphor; this is Christ’s own personal final evaluation. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Assurance via the Spirit’s Seal and Guarantee | ဝိညာဉ်တော်၏ တံဆိပ်ခတ်ခြင်းနှင့် အာမခံခြင်းအားဖြင့် ရသော သေချာမှု | High | 1:21-22; 5:5 | Not a negotiable, revocable commercial pledge; rests on God’s unbreakable character. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Fulfillment of God’s Promises | ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကတိတော်များ ပြည့်စုံခြင်း | Medium | 1:20; 7:1 | Requires OT covenant-promise background teaching for low-OT-literacy hearers. | Native speaker review |
| 19 | Christian Identity in Christ (Extended: Christ’s Indwelling) | ခရစ်တော်၌ ခရစ်ယာန်အဖြစ်တည်ရှိခြင်း - ခရစ်တော် တည်ရှိခြင်း | High | 5:17; 13:5 | ”Christ in you” must not read as mediumistic/nat-possession; this is the risen Christ’s permanent, non-displacing indwelling. | Human theologian |
| 20 | Trinitarian Benediction | သုံးပါးတစ်ဆူ ဘုရားသခင်ကို ကောင်းချီးပေးသော ကျမ်းပိုဒ် | Critical | 13:14 | All three Persons must retain exact baseline renderings so Trinitarian distinctness is preserved. | Human theologian |
| 21 | Eschatological Hope of the Resurrection Body | ထမြောက်ခြင်းခန္ဓာကိုယ်ကို မျှော်လင့်ခြင်း | High | 5:1-4; 12:1-4 | Body-as-tent must not read as a soul discarding a body for rebirth elsewhere; paradise/third heaven must not read as impermanent deva-realm heavens. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Providence in Suffering (Thorn in the Flesh) | ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခ၌ ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကြည့်ရှုစောင့်ရှောက်မှု | High | 12:7-10 | Persistent affliction permitted by God must not be explained as karmic retribution for a past-life wrong; even Satan’s messenger operates only within God’s sovereign permission. | Human theologian |
Risk summary (must equal doctrine_risk_registry.json): Critical 9 · High 9 · Medium 4 · Low 0 · Theologian review 18 · Native speaker review 4 · Automated only 0.
Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage (Full Book, 1–13)
Every chapter is reviewed explicitly below. Where a chapter’s primary contribution is a baseline term/doctrine already governed by the Romans package rather than a new 2 Corinthians doctrine, that is stated rather than silently omitted.
Chapter 1 — Active doctrines: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry (#4; 1:3-11, “Father of mercies,” affliction/comfort pattern); Sincerity and Apostolic Authority (#6; 1:12, clear conscience); Fulfillment of God’s Promises (#18; 1:20, “the Yes in him”); Assurance via the Spirit’s Seal (#17; 1:21-22). Baseline recurrence: Grace (1:2, Critical), Thanksgiving (1:11, Low), Holy Spirit (1:22, Critical).
Chapter 2 — Active doctrines: Godly Sorrow and Repentance (#14; 2:5-11, forgiveness of the offender); Spiritual Warfare and Deception (#15; 2:11, “so that Satan might not outwit us” — first σατανᾶς occurrence, establishes the transliteration policy for the whole book); Sincerity and Apostolic Authority (#6; 2:14-17, aroma of Christ, not “peddling” God’s word). Baseline recurrence: Gospel (2:12, High).
Chapter 3 — Active doctrines: The New Covenant versus the Old (#5; 3:1-11, letter/Spirit, veil, fading vs. surpassing glory); Ministry of the Spirit (#10; 3:6-8, 3:17-18); Sanctification and Progressive Transformation (#11; 3:18, “being transformed… from glory to glory”). Baseline recurrence: Covenant (High), Glory (High).
Chapter 4 — Active doctrines: Power in Weakness (#8; 4:7-12, treasure in jars of clay); Suffering and Comfort in Ministry (#4; 4:8-9, 4:16-18, “eternal weight of glory”); Sincerity and Apostolic Authority (#6; 4:2, rejecting underhanded methods); Sanctification and Progressive Transformation (#11; 4:16, inner/outer man). Baseline recurrence: Gospel, Glory, Resurrection (4:14, Critical), Power of God (High).
Chapter 5 (CORE PASSAGE, 5:11-21) — Active doctrines: Reconciliation with God (#1); New Creation in Christ (#2); Substitutionary Atonement (#3); Eschatological Accountability/Judgment Seat (#16; 5:10-11); Sincerity and Apostolic Authority (#6; 5:11-13, fear of the Lord); Assurance via the Spirit (#17; 5:5, guarantee); Christian Identity in Christ Extended (#19; 5:17); Eschatological Hope of the Resurrection Body (#21; 5:1-4, tent/heavenly dwelling). Baseline recurrence: Righteousness (Critical), Imputed Righteousness/negated form (Critical, 5:19), Sin (High), Ambassador/Reconciliation new terms per glossary.
Chapter 6 — Active doctrines: Suffering and Comfort in Ministry (#4; 6:4-10, catalog of hardships endured); Church as God’s Temple (#12; 6:16); Holiness of Partnership/Unequal Yoking (#13; 6:14-18). Baseline recurrence: Salvation (6:2, Critical — “now is the day of salvation”), Church.
Chapter 7 — Active doctrines: Fulfillment of God’s Promises (#18; 7:1, “since we have these promises… let us purify ourselves”); Suffering and Comfort in Ministry (#4; 7:4-7); Godly Sorrow and Repentance (#14; 7:8-13); Sanctification and Progressive Transformation (#11; 7:1, holiness completion). No new doctrines beyond those already tracked; chapter reviewed in full.
Chapter 8 — Active doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving (#7; the Macedonian churches’ example, grace overflowing in generosity, Christ’s self-impoverishment as the giving paradigm at 8:9). No other doctrine introduced; chapter reviewed in full as the doctrine’s primary anchor alongside chapter 9.
Chapter 9 — Active doctrine: Generosity and Grace in Giving (#7; cheerful giver, sowing and reaping, sufficiency, God’s abounding grace). No other doctrine introduced; chapter reviewed in full.
Chapter 10 — Active doctrines: Power in Weakness (#8; 10:3-5, weapons not of the flesh, strongholds); Sincerity and Apostolic Authority (#6; 10:7-18, boasting only in the Lord, true commendation). No new doctrines beyond those tracked; chapter reviewed in full.
Chapter 11 — Active doctrines: Genuine versus False Apostleship (#9; 11:1-15, 11:20-23, false apostles, Satan disguised as an angel of light); Spiritual Warfare and Deception (#15; 11:3, 11:14-15); Suffering and Comfort in Ministry (#4; 11:23-29, Paul’s suffering catalog). No new doctrines beyond those tracked; chapter reviewed in full.
Chapter 12 — Active doctrines: Eschatological Hope of the Resurrection Body (#21; 12:1-4, paradise/third heaven); Power in Weakness (#8; 12:7-10, thorn in the flesh, sufficient grace, power perfected in weakness); Providence in Suffering (#22; 12:7-10); Spiritual Warfare and Deception (#15; 12:7, messenger of Satan); Genuine versus False Apostleship (#9; 12:11-13, signs of a true apostle). No new doctrines beyond those tracked; chapter reviewed in full.
Chapter 13 — Active doctrines: Power in Weakness (#8; 13:4, “crucified in weakness… lives by God’s power”); Christian Identity in Christ Extended (#19; 13:5, “test yourselves… Christ in you”); Genuine versus False Apostleship (#9; 13:1-10, apostolic discipline); Trinitarian Benediction (#20; 13:14). No new doctrines beyond those tracked; chapter reviewed in full as the closing anchor for both the apostleship and Trinity doctrines.
Cross-Reference Note
This matrix must be loaded alongside the baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json (Romans) in Phase 2, since baseline Critical items (Grace, Salvation, Resurrection, Righteousness, Deity/Sonship/Lordship of Christ, Messiah, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father, Imputed Righteousness) recur throughout 2 Corinthians and retain their baseline tier and routing without modification.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Generosity and Grace in Giving
Burmese name: ကျေးဇူးတော်ဖြင့် စွန့်ကြဲလှူဒါန်းခြင်း
Key terms: grace, cheerful_giver, sowing_and_reaping, equality, sufficiency, eagerness_readiness
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGHEST-STAKES COLLISION in this curriculum: လှူဒါန်း is the standard verb for Buddhist ဒါန (dana) almsgiving performed principally to accumulate ကုသိုလ် for a better rebirth or more favorable present life. Christian giving is (a) a grateful response to grace already received, not merit sought; (b) evaluated by cheerful disposition, not gift-size or recipient merit-value; (c) directed to fellow believers’ material need, not karmic favor. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Genuine versus False Apostleship
Burmese name: စစ်မှန်သော တမန်တော်နှင့် တမန်တော်အတု
Key terms: false_apostles, deceitful_workmen, satan, angel_of_light, signs_of_a_true_apostle, test_yourselves, christ_in_you
Review routing: Human theologian
False apostles must be marked as deliberate impostors linked to demonic deception (11:14-15), not merely inferior rival teachers — a distinction that Burmese religious pluralism could otherwise flatten into mere denominational disagreement. Satan (စာတန်) must never be conflated with မာရ်နတ် (Mara) or the ranked nat-spirit hierarchy.
The New Covenant versus the Old
Burmese name: ပဋိညာဉ်သစ်နှင့် ပဋိညာဉ်ဟောင်း
Key terms: new_covenant, letter_of_the_law, ministry_of_the_spirit, veil, glory, freedom
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires explicit OT background (the Mosaic covenant, Moses’ veiled face) unfamiliar to hearers without OT narrative literacy. The new covenant fulfills, not merely supplements, the old; ‘the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life’ must not be misread as a rejection of Scripture itself.
New Creation in Christ
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၌ ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်းအသစ်
Key terms: new_creation, in_christ, according_to_the_flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
Must use ဖန်ဆင်း (the verb reserved for God’s Genesis creative act), never a term suggesting a favorable rebirth outcome within samsara or a self-cultivated inner transformation attained through meditative discipline. This is a decisive, once-for-all divine act, not a step along a karmic continuum of accumulating merit toward a better next existence.
Power in Weakness
Burmese name: အားနည်းခြင်း၌ ဘုရားသခင်၏တန်ခိုးတော်
Key terms: weakness, sufficient_grace, power_made_perfect_in_weakness, jars_of_clay, weapons_not_of_the_flesh, thorn_in_the_flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
Must never be moralized into weakness as a self-cultivated ascetic virtue (resembling self-mortification practiced to build spiritual merit); God’s power is displayed through, not because of, acknowledged human insufficiency wholly dependent on unearned grace. 12:9’s ‘sufficient grace’ is the doctrine’s central verse and requires theologian review every time.
Reconciliation with God
Burmese name: ဘုရားသခင်နှင့် သင့်မြတ်ခြင်း
Key terms: reconciliation, reconciled, ministry_of_reconciliation, not_counting_trespasses
Review routing: Human theologian
The doctrinal center of the core passage. God, not humanity, is the initiating agent who removes enmity through Christ’s finished work. Must never be rendered through the logic of ritual nat-propitiation (offering appeasement to a spirit believed to be offended), which would wrongly cast the sinner as the active party placating an angry power rather than the passive recipient of God’s own reconciling initiative.
Spiritual Warfare and Deception
Burmese name: ဝိညာဉ်ရေးရာစစ်ပွဲနှင့် လှည့်ဖြားမှု
Key terms: satan, angel_of_light, messenger_of_satan
Review routing: Human theologian
Satan (စာတန်) must never be rendered with မာရ်နတ် (Mara, the Buddhist tempter-deity who opposed the Buddha’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree) nor conflated with the graded nat-spirit hierarchy of Burmese folk religion; he is the singular, personal spiritual adversary of the one true God across all Scripture, capable of disguising himself as benevolent, which must not be softened into the ambivalent dual nature ascribed to some folk nats.
Substitutionary Atonement
Burmese name: ကိုယ်စားအစားထိုး၍ ရာဇဝတ်ခံတော်မူခြင်း
Key terms: died_for_all, made_him_to_be_sin, righteousness
Review routing: Human theologian
2 Corinthians 5:21’s sharp paradox (the sinless Christ ‘made sin’ so believers become ‘the righteousness of God’) requires theologian review at every occurrence per the baseline’s atonement/propitiation escalation rule. Any softening to a generic karmic-consequence-bearing framework loses Paul’s specific legal-substitutionary force.
Trinitarian Benediction
Burmese name: သုံးပါးတစ်ဆူ ဘုရားသခင်ကို ကောင်းချီးပေးသော ကျမ်းပိုဒ်
Key terms: trinitarian_benediction, grace, love_of_christ, fellowship, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
One of the clearest Trinitarian formulas in the NT. All three Persons — grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, love of God, fellowship of the Holy Spirit — must retain their exact baseline renderings so Trinitarian distinctness is not blurred; this anchors curriculum-wide Trinity teaching alongside the Romans baseline’s Father/Son/Spirit vocabulary.
High Risk Doctrines
Assurance via the Spirit’s Seal and Guarantee
Burmese name: ဝိညာဉ်တော်၏ တံဆိပ်ခတ်ခြင်းနှင့် အာမခံခြင်းအားဖြင့် ရသော သေချာမှု
Key terms: seal_guarantee, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s guarantee through the Spirit must not be read as a negotiable, revocable commercial pledge (ငွေစေ့စပ်စာချုပ်); this extends the baseline assurance-of-salvation doctrine, resting on God’s own unbreakable character, not an uncertain running merit-tally.
Christian Identity in Christ (Extended: Christ’s Indwelling)
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၌ ခရစ်ယာန်အဖြစ်တည်ရှိခြင်း - ခရစ်တော် တည်ရှိခြင်း
Key terms: christ_in_you, in_christ, test_yourselves
Review routing: Human theologian
Extends the baseline Romans doctrine of Christian identity in Christ. ‘Christ in you’ must be distinguished from mediumistic or possession-type indwelling (as with nat-spirit possession in folk practice); this is the risen, personal Christ’s permanent, non-displacing indwelling by his Spirit.
Eschatological Accountability (Judgment Seat of Christ)
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၏ တရားစီရင်ပလ္လင်တော်ရှေ့ ရပ်ရမည့် တာဝန်ခံမှု
Key terms: judgment_seat_of_christ, fear_of_the_lord
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be distinguished from the karmic weighing/accounting metaphors of Burmese Buddhist moral imagination — an impersonal ledger of merit and demerit determining one’s next rebirth; this is Christ’s own personal, final, once-for-all evaluation of believers’ service, grounding a reverent, relational fear, not superstitious dread of an impersonal force.
Eschatological Hope of the Resurrection Body
Burmese name: ထမြောက်ခြင်းခန္ဓာကိုယ်ကို မျှော်လင့်ခြင်း
Key terms: tent_earthly_dwelling, groan, resurrection, paradise_third_heaven
Review routing: Human theologian
The present body as a temporary dwelling awaiting a permanent resurrection body must not be read as a soul discarding a body to be reborn elsewhere in samsara; Paul’s vision of paradise/third heaven must likewise be distinguished from the impermanent deva-realm heavens of Buddhist cosmology, from which beings eventually fall and are reborn.
Ministry of the Spirit
Burmese name: ဝိညာဉ်တော်၏ အမှုတော်
Key terms: ministry_of_the_spirit, letter_of_the_law, transformed
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit-empowered new-covenant ministry gives life, contrasted with the condemning letter; must never be reduced to a merely literary or rhetorical distinction detached from the Holy Spirit’s actual personal, life-giving activity.
Providence in Suffering (Thorn in the Flesh)
Burmese name: ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခ၌ ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကြည့်ရှုစောင့်ရှောက်မှု
Key terms: thorn_in_the_flesh, messenger_of_satan, sufficient_grace
Review routing: Human theologian
Extends the baseline providence doctrine. The persistent affliction permitted by God to produce humility must not be explained through Burmese folk-causal reasoning as karmic retribution for a past-life wrong; even Satan’s messenger operates only within bounds God personally and purposively permits.
Sanctification and Progressive Transformation
Burmese name: သန့်ရှင်းခြင်းနှင့် အသီးအသီးပြောင်းလဲခြင်း
Key terms: transformed, inner_outer_man, godly_sorrow, repentance
Review routing: Human theologian
Progressive Spirit-wrought transformation into Christ’s likeness must be distinguished from self-directed meditative mind-transformation (e.g., insight meditation reshaping consciousness) and from ဝိပ္ပတိသာရ (self-directed karmic regret); this is God’s own ongoing work upon a believer beholding Christ, relationally oriented toward God.
Sincerity and Apostolic Authority
Burmese name: ရိုးဖြောင့်မှုနှင့် တမန်တော်ဇာတိအခွင့်အာဏာ
Key terms: sincerity, commend, boast, conscience, fear_of_the_lord, aroma_of_christ, peddlers, ambassador
Review routing: Human theologian
True commendation is the Lord’s own evaluation (10:18), risking collision with the practice of seeking a senior monk’s or respected teacher’s public endorsement as a mark of spiritual legitimacy. Conscience must answer to God, not merely to Burmese honor/shame social dynamics.
Suffering and Comfort in Ministry
Burmese name: အမှုတော်ဆောင်ရာတွင် ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခနှင့် နှစ်သိမ့်ခြင်း
Key terms: comfort_consolation, affliction_suffering, sufferings_of_christ, father_of_mercies, eternal_weight_of_glory
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ဒုက္ခ (dukkha) is the technical term for Buddhism’s First Noble Truth — the inherent unsatisfactoriness of all conditioned existence, resolved through detachment and the Eightfold Path. Paul’s affliction is temporary, purposeful, relationally borne with God’s personal comfort, and productive of hope, not an existential condition to be escaped through non-attachment. Mandatory translator note at every occurrence.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Church as God’s Temple
Burmese name: ဘုရားသခင်၏ ဗိမာန်တော်အဖြစ် အသင်းတော်
Key terms: temple_of_the_living_god, church
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ဗိမာန်တော် is reserved for the Jerusalem temple and must never be rendered with ဘုရားကျောင်း/ဘုရားရိပ်သာ (pagoda/monastery vocabulary), already forbidden for ‘church’ in the baseline; the point is God’s own living presence among his gathered people, not a lifeless shrine.
Fulfillment of God’s Promises
Burmese name: ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကတိတော်များ ပြည့်စုံခြင်း
Key terms: promise
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‘All the promises of God find their Yes in him’ requires OT covenant-promise background teaching for hearers with low OT literacy; connects to but does not replace the baseline fulfillment-of-prophecy doctrine.
Godly Sorrow and Repentance
Burmese name: ဘုရားသခင်နှစ်သက်တော်မူသော ဝမ်းနည်းခြင်းနှင့် နောင်တရခြင်း
Key terms: godly_sorrow, repentance, forgive
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Godly sorrow must be distinguished from ဝိပ္ပတိသာရ, a self-directed remorse over past unwholesome karma functioning within a self-improvement framework; biblical repentance is relationally oriented toward God and produces salvation without regret, evidenced by grace-based forgiveness rather than restored merit.
Holiness of Partnership (Unequal Yoking)
Burmese name: သန့်ရှင်းသော ဆက်ဆံရေး - မတူညီသော ဇက်ဖြင့် မတွဲထမ်းရခြင်း
Key terms: unequally_yoked
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The agrarian metaphor is clear, but pastoral application to interfaith or interreligious partnership is culturally sensitive in a majority-Buddhist society; must be taught as guarding ultimate spiritual loyalty, not as a blanket prohibition of ordinary social or family relationships with non-believers.
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