Doctrine Analysis
11 Doctrine Analysis — Galatians | English → Burmese
Purpose
This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 4/5 doctrine mapping for the full text of Galatians, chapters 1–6, extending the baseline Romans doctrine_risk_registry.json without contradiction. Every doctrine, risk tier, and review-routing assignment below is IDENTICAL to assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (Galatians). This document adds the chapter-by-chapter distribution and passage-level translation-risk rationale that the registry’s flat JSON structure does not itself display. The core passage, Galatians 2:15–21, is the theological anchor of the curriculum but every chapter of the letter is analyzed in full — no chapter is silently skipped, per the FULL-BOOK COVERAGE mandate.
Risk tiers and review routing:
- Critical → Human theologian review, every occurrence
- High → Human theologian review
- Medium → Native speaker review
- Low → Automated review only
Chapter 1 (Galatians 1:1–24) — Greeting, the One True Gospel, Paul’s Divine Commissioning
Chapter 1 establishes Paul’s authority and the exclusivity of the gospel he preaches — the doctrinal foundation for everything that follows. Fully reviewed; five doctrines active.
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Galatians) | Risk | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul’s Apostleship | 1:1, 1:11–24 | High | Authority claimed as “not from man” via direct divine commissioning; must not read as senior-monk (ဆရာတော်) authority built through study/lineage/ordination succession. | Human theologian |
| Divine Calling | 1:1, 1:6, 1:15 | High | ခေါ်တော်မူခြင်း must carry binding, sovereign force — 1:6’s shock (“so quickly deserting him who called you”) presumes a real, consequential summons, not ကံဇာတာ (karmic destiny) or a revocable invitation. | Human theologian |
| True Gospel versus False Gospels | 1:6–9, 1:11–12 | Critical | The strongest anathema language in the NT (1:8–9). သတင်းကောင်း must remain singular/exclusive; “another gospel” is not sincere religious variety but a distortion. Burma’s pluralistic religious landscape makes this the passage most vulnerable to a softened, tolerance-framed rendering. | Human theologian |
| Deity and Sonship of Christ | 1:1 (“God the Father, who raised him from the dead”) | Critical | Christ’s resurrection-agency and Father-Son relation implicit already in v.1; full phrase ဘုရားသခင်၏သားတော် protocol applies wherever sonship is invoked, even by implication. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Greeting: Grace and Peace | 1:3–5 | Low | Formulaic but doctrinally loaded; risk is fully mitigated once “grace” (Critical) and “peace” (Medium) terms are enforced from translation memory. | Automated review |
Chapter 1 status: Reviewed in full. No terms outside those already tracked in 08_core_glossary.md (##56–61) surfaced.
Chapter 2 (Galatians 2:1–21) — Jerusalem Council, the Antioch Incident, and the Core Passage
This chapter contains the curriculum’s theological anchor, Galatians 2:15–21, along with the historical narrative (Jerusalem council, Peter’s hypocrisy at Antioch) that sets up the doctrinal argument. Fully reviewed; eight doctrines active, the highest concentration of Critical-tier material in the letter.
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Galatians) | Risk | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justification by Faith | 2:15–21 (core passage), 2:16 | Critical | The letter’s thesis. “Not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ” (2:16) is the single highest syncretism-risk statement in the book: ပညတ်တရား၏အကျင့်များ functions in lived Burmese religion identically to ကုသိုလ်ကျင့်ခြင်း (merit-deeds performed to secure favorable standing/rebirth). | Human theologian |
| Law and Grace | 2:16, 2:21 | Critical | 2:21 (“if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died in vain / အချည်းနှီး”) is the flagship grace-vs-works statement; law-righteousness and grace are presented as mutually and structurally exclusive, cutting against daily lay merit-making practice. | Human theologian |
| True Gospel versus False Gospels | 2:4–5, 2:14 | Critical | False brothers (မိစ္ဆာညီအစ်ကို) infiltrating “to spy out our freedom”; gospel truth (သစ္စာတရား) has fixed, defensible content that Peter’s hypocrisy at Antioch temporarily obscured — must not read as a minor social faux pas. | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles | 2:11–14 | High | Peter’s withdrawal from table fellowship with Gentiles dramatizes exactly the ethnic/religious hierarchy risk flagged for Burma’s Buddhist-Burman-majority context. | Human theologian |
| Crucified with Christ | 2:20 | Critical | ”I have been crucified with Christ… it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Must denote identification with a single historical execution event, and must preserve a continuing personal “I” indwelt by Christ — never framed as ascetic self-mortification or an anatta-style extinguishing of self. | Human theologian |
| Circumcision and the New Creation | 2:3–9 | Critical | Titus not compelled to be circumcised; the old covenant sign is shown as already non-obligatory, anticipating 5:2–6 and 6:15. | Human theologian |
| Paul’s Apostleship | 2:7–9 | High | Jerusalem pillars’ recognition of Paul’s Gentile-directed apostleship; ကျောရင်းတိုင်များ (pillars) is descriptive, not a hierarchical monastic-style seniority title. | Human theologian |
| Christian Fellowship in Gospel Partnership | 2:9 | Low | The right-hand-of-fellowship gesture; risk fully mitigated once မိတ်သဟာယ is correctly anchored as shared gospel partnership, not mere social association. | Automated review |
Chapter 2 status: Reviewed in full, including the core passage. Highest-density Critical-tier chapter in the book; every segment touching 2:15–21 is automatically escalated per the Phase 2 escalation rules.
Chapter 3 (Galatians 3:1–29) — Abraham, the Law, the Curse, and the Promise
Chapter 3 mounts Paul’s Scriptural argument from the Abrahamic narrative and explains the law’s temporary, subordinate role. Fully reviewed; six doctrines active.
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Galatians) | Risk | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justification by Faith | 3:6–9, 3:11, 3:24 | Critical | Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness” (3:6, citing Gen 15:6) — reuses baseline imputed_righteousness term exactly; must not be rendered as merit accumulated by Abraham’s own virtue. | Human theologian |
| The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise | 3:6–9, 3:14–18, 3:29 | High | ကတိတော် (promise) is God’s unilateral pledge predating the law by 430 years and unannullable by it — not a conditional negotiation or a karmic multi-life reward expectation, the dominant Burmese framework for anticipated future benefit. | Human theologian |
| The Law’s Purpose | 3:19–25, 3:10–13 | High | The law as temporary custodial “guardian” (အထိန်း) until Christ, not a permanent righteousness-path. Also includes 3:1’s rhetorical “who has bewitched you” (ပြုစားခြင်းခံခဲ့သနည်း), requiring a translator note against literal-magic misreading. | Human theologian |
| Redemption from the Curse of the Law | 3:13–14 | High | Christ’s bearing of the law’s curse (ကျိန်ခြင်း) to redeem (ရွေးနှင်းတော်မူခြင်း) is a unique, historical, substitutionary legal act — not a mystical affliction removable by yadaya ritual counter-measures, nor self-purchased liberation from karmic debt. | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles | 3:28 | High | ”Neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male and female” — sweeping equality-in-Christ formula must retain full, unqualified force. | Human theologian |
| Adoption and Sonship | 3:26, 3:29 | High | ”Sons of God, through faith” and “heirs according to promise” — introduces sonship/heirship terminology fully developed in chapter 4. | Human theologian |
Chapter 3 status: Reviewed in full. New terms tracked in glossary: works_of_the_law, curse, redeem, promise, seed/offspring, mediator, guardian/tutor, hearing of faith, blessing of Abraham, bewitched, unity formula (3:28).
Chapter 4 (Galatians 4:1–31) — Sonship, Abba, and the Hagar/Sarah Allegory
Chapter 4 moves from legal-forensic to familial-relational categories (sonship, adoption, Abba) and closes with the Hagar/Sarah allegory. Fully reviewed; four doctrines active.
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Galatians) | Risk | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adoption and Sonship | 4:1–7 | High | Full, permanent son-status with inheritance rights secured through Christ, not law-keeping. Abba-cry (အဗ္ဘ) must retain personal filial intimacy against any impersonal-Brahma (ဗြဟ္မာ) framing of ultimate reality — reuses baseline forbidden-substitution rule verbatim. | Human theologian |
| Deity and Sonship of Christ | 4:4 | Critical | ”God sent forth his Son” presupposes co-equal, eternal divine Sonship, not an enlightened teacher elevated to Brahma-realm deity status through accumulated merit. Full phrase ဘုရားသခင်၏သားတော် required, never abbreviated. | Human theologian |
| Bondage to Elemental Spirits/Powers | 4:3, 4:8–10 | Critical | Paul equates pre-Christian bondage under both Jewish law-observance and pagan spirit-observance to “elemental” (στοιχεῖα) powers. Direct collision with Burmese ဓာတ်လေးပါး (four-elements) cosmology and the nat-spirit calendar/fortune system; mandatory translator note that Paul declares freedom FROM such systems, not their reality/relevance. | Human theologian |
| The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise | 4:21–31 (Hagar/Sarah allegory) | High | Paul’s own inspired typological method (ပုံဥပမာအားဖြင့်ဆိုသော) extending the promise-line; “Jerusalem above” (4:26) requires care that it is not read as a literal geographic or astrological “auspicious realm.” | Human theologian |
Chapter 4 status: Reviewed in full. New terms tracked: fullness of time, slave (status), allegory, Jerusalem above.
Chapter 5 (Galatians 5:1–26) — Freedom, the Flesh, and the Fruit of the Spirit
Chapter 5 is the letter’s ethical hinge: freedom is for love and Spirit-walking, not license or a return to law. Fully reviewed; seven doctrines active, including two additional Critical-tier doctrines.
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Galatians) | Risk | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom in Christ | 5:1, 5:13 | High | လွတ်လပ်ခြင်း is a status Christ has secured, exercised in love — not self-attained release from craving (Buddhist liberation framework) and not license for the flesh; must not be surrendered back to legal “yoke of slavery.” | Human theologian |
| Circumcision and the New Creation | 5:2–6, 5:11 | Critical | ”If you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you” (5:2) — the sharpest either/or statement in the letter regarding the old covenant sign’s non-transferability. | Human theologian |
| Faith Working through Love | 5:6, 5:13–14 | High | ”Faith working through love” must not be misheard as “faith plus loving deeds as a supplementary merit path” — love is faith’s fruit/expression, not an added ground of justification alongside works of the law. | Human theologian |
| Flesh versus Spirit | 5:13, 5:16–21, 5:24–25 | High | ဇာတိ shifts here from the earlier neutral bodily sense (2:20; 4:4) to fallen human nature in active moral rebellion; this semantic shift must be explicitly flagged for translators. | Human theologian |
| Works of the Flesh and Sorcery | 5:19–21 | Critical | φαρμακεία (sorcery/witchcraft, မှော်ဆွယ်မှု) named in the vice-list has acute real-world relevance given weizza/occult/amulet/astrology practice in Burmese religious life; must be named unambiguously as sin, distinguished from legitimate traditional medicine. | Human theologian |
| Fruit of the Spirit | 5:22–23 | High | The singular “fruit” (organic, Spirit-produced) must not be taught as nine separately self-cultivated virtues, which would collapse into the brahmavihara/paramita self-discipline framework. ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာ heading the list requires particular care against the meditative, impartial-benevolence sense of Buddhist metta. | Human theologian |
| Crucified with Christ | 5:24 | Critical | ”Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh” — extends the 2:20 doctrine corporately; same forbidden-framing rules apply (not ascetic mortification, not anatta-style self-extinguishing). | Human theologian |
Chapter 5 status: Reviewed in full. New terms tracked: freedom/liberty, yoke of slavery, flesh (moral sense), works of the flesh, sorcery, love (agape), faith working through love, fruit of the Spirit.
Chapter 6 (Galatians 6:1–18) — Burden-Bearing, Sowing and Reaping, and the Closing Boast
Chapter 6 closes with practical community ethics and Paul’s final contrast between boasting in the flesh and boasting in the cross. Fully reviewed; six doctrines active.
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Galatians) | Risk | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bearing One Another’s Burdens | 6:1–5 | Medium | Mutual burden-bearing (Spirit-given love) is distinct from the individualist “each will bear his own load” (6:5) and from a kamma-as-solely-individual framework where each person’s burden is theirs alone to resolve through private effort. | Native speaker review |
| Sowing and Reaping | 6:7–9 | High | Acutely vulnerable to being heard as a restatement of ကံ (karma, impersonal cause-and-effect). Mandatory translator note: this consequence operates within the grace-framework already established (2:21; 3:1–14), not a merit-and-consequence economy. | Human theologian |
| Circumcision and the New Creation | 6:12–15 | Critical | ”Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but a new creation” (6:15). ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်းအသစ် must never be conflated with samsaric rebirth terms (ပြန်လည်မွေးဖွားခြင်း/ပဋိသန္ဓေတည်ခြင်း), already forbidden for “resurrection” in the baseline — this is the letter’s climactic Critical-tier statement. | Human theologian |
| Crucified with Christ | 6:14 | Critical | ”Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of Christ our Lord, by which the world has been crucified to me” — closing return to the 2:20/5:24 doctrine; positive “boast” (ဂုဏ်ယူခြင်း) here must be distinguished from the negative “boast” (ကြွားဝါခြင်း) of 6:13. | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles | 6:16 | High | ”Peace and mercy… to the Israel of God” extends covenant-people language to Gentile believers, requiring the same unqualified equality-in-Christ treatment as 3:28. | Human theologian |
| Paul’s Apostleship | 6:17 | Low | ”The marks of Jesus” (ယေရှု၏အမှတ်တံဆိပ်များ) — Paul’s suffering-scars as apostolic authentication; note risk of confusion with protective tattoo-amulet marks, requiring a clarifying note but not theologian-level escalation. | Automated review (flag for native speaker note) |
Chapter 6 status: Reviewed in full. New terms tracked: sow and reap, boast (negative/positive senses), marks of Jesus, law of Christ.
Full-Book Doctrine Summary (Cross-Reference to doctrine_risk_registry.json)
| Doctrine | Risk | Chapters Present | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justification by Faith | Critical | 2 (core), 3 | Human theologian |
| The True Gospel versus False Gospels | Critical | 1, 2 | Human theologian |
| Law and Grace | Critical | 2 (core) | Human theologian |
| Crucified with Christ | Critical | 2 (core), 5, 6 | Human theologian |
| Circumcision and the New Creation | Critical | 2, 5, 6 | Human theologian |
| Deity and Sonship of Christ | Critical | 1, 4 | Human theologian |
| Bondage to Elemental Spirits/Powers | Critical | 4 | Human theologian |
| Works of the Flesh and Sorcery | Critical | 5 | Human theologian |
| Paul’s Apostleship | High | 1, 2, 6 | Human theologian |
| Divine Calling | High | 1 | Human theologian |
| The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise | High | 3, 4 | Human theologian |
| The Law’s Purpose | High | 3 | Human theologian |
| Adoption and Sonship | High | 3, 4 | Human theologian |
| Freedom in Christ | High | 5 | Human theologian |
| Flesh versus Spirit | High | 5 | Human theologian |
| Fruit of the Spirit | High | 5 | Human theologian |
| Faith Working through Love | High | 5 | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles | High | 2, 3, 6 | Human theologian |
| Sowing and Reaping | High | 6 | Human theologian |
| Redemption from the Curse of the Law | High | 3 | Human theologian |
| Bearing One Another’s Burdens | Medium | 6 | Native speaker review |
| Christian Fellowship in Gospel Partnership | Low | 2 | Automated review |
| Apostolic Greeting: Grace and Peace | Low | 1 | Automated review |
Totals (identical to doctrine_risk_registry.json): Critical = 8, High = 12, Medium = 1, Low = 2. Total doctrines = 23. Requiring human theologian review = 20. Requiring native speaker review = 1. Automated only = 2.
Full-book coverage confirmation: All six chapters of Galatians (1:1–6:18) have been reviewed. Every chapter contributed at least one load-bearing doctrine or term; none is silently omitted. The core passage (2:15–21) sits within Chapter 2, which carries the letter’s highest concentration of Critical-tier doctrine, consistent with its role as the curriculum’s theological anchor rather than its scope boundary.
This document must be loaded alongside assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json, assets/translation_memory.json, and 08_core_glossary.md before Phase 2 segment translation begins.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Bondage to Elemental Spirits/Powers
Burmese name: လောကီအခြေခံအားစုများ၏ကျွန်ခံခြင်း
Key terms: elemental_spirits, slave, freedom
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul equates pre-Christian bondage under both Jewish law-observance and pagan spirit-observance to enslaving ‘elemental’ powers. This collides directly with Burmese ဓာတ်လေးပါး (four-elements) cosmology and the populated nat-spirit calendar/fortune system; a mandatory translator note must clarify Paul is declaring freedom from, not affirming the reality/relevance of, such systems.
Circumcision and the New Creation
Burmese name: အရေဖျားလှီးခြင်းနှင့် ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်းအသစ်
Key terms: circumcision, new_creation
Review routing: Human theologian
ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်းအသစ် must never be conflated with ပြန်လည်မွေးဖွားခြင်း/ပဋိသန္ဓေတည်ခြင်း (samsaric rebirth), already forbidden for ‘resurrection’ in the baseline. This is God’s own decisive, once-for-all inaugurating act, replacing the old covenant sign entirely — flagged for mandatory theologian review at every occurrence on the model of the baseline resurrection escalation rule.
Crucified with Christ
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်နှင့်အတူ လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်တင်ခံရခြင်း
Key terms: crucified_with_christ, flesh, boast_positive_in_cross
Review routing: Human theologian
The believer’s old law-bound identity has been put to death in union with Christ’s actual, historical, once-for-all crucifixion. Must be explicitly distinguished from a repeatable ascetic mortification practice or a metaphor for self-effort in overcoming desire, as found in Buddhist renunciation-of-self frameworks; Paul affirms a continuing personal ‘I’ now indwelt by Christ, not an extinguished self (anatta).
Deity and Sonship of Christ
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၏ဘုရားဇာတိနှင့်သားတော်ဇာတိ
Key terms: son_of_god, christ, jesus
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sending forth of ‘his Son’ (4:4) presupposes co-equal, eternal divine Sonship, not an enlightened human teacher elevated to a Brahma-realm deity through accumulated merit, nor one ranked figure within the nat-spirit hierarchy. The full phrase ဘုရားသခင်၏သားတော် must never be abbreviated.
Justification by Faith
Burmese name: ယုံကြည်ခြင်းအားဖြင့် ဖြောင့်မတ်ရာသို့ ရောက်ခြင်း
Key terms: justification, righteousness, faith, works_of_the_law
Review routing: Human theologian
The core passage’s thesis. ပညတ်တရား၏အကျင့်များ (works of the law) functions in lived Burmese religion identically to ကုသိုလ်ကျင့်ခြင်း (performing merit-deeds to secure favorable standing) — the single highest syncretism risk in the letter. Every occurrence of the justification-by-faith-not-works contrast must carry explicit teaching that righteousness is a legal declaration credited by God, never a moral score accumulated through practice.
Law and Grace
Burmese name: ပညတ်တရားနှင့်ကျေးဇူးတော်
Key terms: law, grace, nullify_grace, in_vain, works_of_the_law
Review routing: Human theologian
Galatians 2:21 is a flagship grace-versus-works passage: ‘if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died အချည်းနှီး (in vain).’ Grace and law-righteousness are presented as structurally, mutually exclusive bases of standing before God — this cuts directly against the daily lay practice of merit-making (ကုသိုလ်ပြုခြင်း) that shapes Burmese Buddhist religious life pervasively.
The True Gospel versus False Gospels
Burmese name: စစ်မှန်သောသတင်းကောင်းနှင့် မှားယွင်းသောသတင်းကောင်း
Key terms: gospel, anathema, pervert_gospel, truth_of_the_gospel, false_brothers
Review routing: Human theologian
သတင်းကောင်း must be taught as singular and exclusive; ‘a different gospel’ is not really good news at all but a distortion (မှားယွင်းခြင်း) worthy of ကျိန်ဆဲအပ်သည် (anathema). This must not be softened to sound like sincere doctrinal variety among equally valid religious paths, a framing readily available in Burma’s pluralistic religious landscape.
Works of the Flesh and Sorcery
Burmese name: ဇာတိ၏အကျင့်များနှင့်မှော်ဆွယ်မှု
Key terms: works_of_the_flesh, sorcery, flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
φαρμακεία (sorcery/witchcraft) named within the vice-list has acute, non-marginal relevance given widespread weizza (esoteric adept) practice, protective amulets, astrology, and spirit-mediation in Burmese religious life. Must be unambiguously taught as flesh-dominated sin requiring repentance, carefully distinguished from legitimate traditional medicine to avoid over-broad condemnation.
High Risk Doctrines
The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise
Burmese name: အာဗြဟံ၏ပဋိညာဉ်နှင့်ကတိတော်
Key terms: covenant, promise, imputed_righteousness, seed_of_abraham, blessing_of_abraham, heir
Review routing: Human theologian
ကတိတော် (promise) must be taught as God’s own unilateral, binding pledge preceding the law by 430 years and unannullable by it — not a conditional negotiation or a karmic expectation of reward accumulated across many lifetimes, the dominant Burmese framework for anticipated future benefit.
Adoption and Sonship
Burmese name: သားအဖြစ်လက်ခံခြင်းနှင့် သားတော်ဇာတိ
Key terms: adoption, abba, father, son_of_god, slave, heir
Review routing: Human theologian
Full, permanent son-status with inheritance rights, secured through Christ the eternal Son (4:4), not through law-keeping. Burmese customary adoption is culturally well understood, lowering incomprehension risk, but the Abba-cry (အဗ္ဘ) must retain personal filial intimacy against any impersonal-Brahma (ဗြဟ္မာ) framing of ultimate reality.
Divine Calling
Burmese name: ဘုရားသခင်၏ခေါ်တော်မူခြင်း
Key terms: called, set_apart
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call to apostleship and to grace must be distinguished from ကံဇာတာ (fixed karmic destiny) and from a revocable human invitation the Galatians could simply decline without consequence — the letter’s urgency (1:6, ‘so quickly deserting’) presupposes a call with real, binding force.
Faith Working through Love
Burmese name: ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာအားဖြင့် လုပ်ဆောင်သောယုံကြည်ခြင်း
Key terms: faith, love, faith_working_through_love
Review routing: Human theologian
Risk of being misheard as ‘faith plus loving deeds as a supplementary merit path,’ reintroducing exactly the works-righteousness the letter refutes throughout chapters 2-3. Must be taught so that love is faith’s fruit and expression, not an additional ground of justification alongside works of the law.
Flesh versus Spirit
Burmese name: ဇာတိနှင့်ဝိညာဉ်
Key terms: flesh, works_of_the_flesh, sorcery, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
ဇာတိ here shifts from the neutral bodily sense used earlier in the letter (2:20; 4:4) to fallen human nature in active moral rebellion; this shift must be explicitly flagged. The vice-list’s φαρμακεία (sorcery) has acute real-world relevance given widespread weizza/occult/amulet practice in Burmese religious life and must be named unambiguously as sin.
Freedom in Christ
Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၌ လွတ်လပ်ခြင်း
Key terms: freedom, yoke_of_slavery, elemental_spirits
Review routing: Human theologian
လွတ်လပ်ခြင်း is a status Christ has secured for the believer, to be exercised in love — not self-attained release from craving as in Buddhist liberation frameworks, and not license for the flesh. Must not be surrendered back to legal bondage (ζυγὸς δουλείας) nor collapsed into libertinism.
Fruit of the Spirit
Burmese name: ဝိညာဉ်တော်၏အသီးအနှံ
Key terms: fruit_of_the_spirit, love, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
The singular ‘fruit’ (organic, Spirit-produced) must not be taught as nine separately self-cultivated virtues, which would collapse into the Buddhist brahmavihara/paramita framework of deliberate personal discipline. ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာ (love/agape) heading the list requires particular care against collapsing into the meditative, impartial-benevolence sense of Buddhist metta.
The Law’s Purpose
Burmese name: ပညတ်တရား၏ရည်ရွယ်ချက်
Key terms: law, guardian_tutor, mediator, curse, bewitched
Review routing: Human theologian
The law’s role was temporary custodial protection (အထိန်း) until Christ, not a permanent means of righteousness. High risk of the guardian-role being read as a moral teacher whose instruction itself confers merit, and of κατάρα (curse) being read through the lens of literal, ritually-removable Burmese folk curses rather than covenant-legal consequence.
Paul’s Apostleship
Burmese name: ပေါလု၏တမန်တော်ဖြစ်ခြင်း
Key terms: apostle, called, set_apart, revelation
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul’s authority is ‘not from men nor through man’ but by direct divine commissioning and revelation (ဗျာဒိတ်တော်). Risk of reducing this to a respected senior-monk (ဆရာတော်) style teaching authority acquired through study and lineage, rather than a directly commissioned, authoritative sent-one set apart before birth.
Redemption from the Curse of the Law
Burmese name: ကျိန်ခြင်းမှရွေးနှင်းတော်မူခြင်း
Key terms: redemption, curse
Review routing: Human theologian
Christ’s bearing of the law’s curse to redeem believers is a unique, historical, substitutionary legal act, not a mystical affliction removable by ritual counter-measures (yadaya) as commonly practiced against Burmese folk-curses, nor self-purchased liberation from one’s own karmic debt.
Sowing and Reaping
Burmese name: စိုက်ပျိုးခြင်းနှင့်ရိတ်သိမ်းခြင်း
Key terms: sow_and_reap
Review routing: Human theologian
This proverb-like statement is acutely vulnerable to being heard as a restatement of ကံ (karma, the impersonal law of moral cause-and-effect already flagged Critical/High in the baseline). A mandatory translator note must clarify that this consequence operates within the grace-framework already established in the letter (2:21; 3:1-14), not a return to a merit-and-consequence economy Paul has spent five chapters refuting.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Burmese name: ယုဒလူမျိုးနှင့် တစ်ပါးအမျိုးသားတို့၏ စည်းလုံးခြင်း
Key terms: gentiles, unity_formula, israel
Review routing: Human theologian
Reused and extended from the baseline Romans doctrine. Galatians 3:28’s sweeping equality formula (‘neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male and female’) and 6:16’s extension of ‘Israel of God’ to Gentile believers must retain full, unqualified equality-in-Christ language, challenging any notion that being Buddhist and Burman carries inherent religious priority over minority ethnic or religious groups.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Bearing One Another’s Burdens
Burmese name: အချင်းချင်း၏ဝန်ထုပ်ဝန်ပိုးများကို ထမ်းယူခြင်း
Key terms: bear_one_anothers_burdens, law_of_christ
Review routing: Native speaker review
Mutual burden-bearing is a positive communal obligation flowing from Spirit-given love, distinct from the individualist ‘each will bear his own load’ of 6:5 and from a kamma-as-solely-individual framework in which each person’s burden is fundamentally theirs alone to resolve through private effort.
Low Risk Doctrines
Apostolic Greeting: Grace and Peace
Burmese name: ကျေးဇူးတော်နှင့် ငြိမ်သက်ခြင်း နှုတ်ခွန်းဆက်ခြင်း
Key terms: grace, peace
Review routing: Automated review
Standard Pauline greeting formula, theologically loaded but already well-anchored by the Critical ‘grace’ and Medium ‘peace’ term-level entries; the greeting itself carries minor residual risk once those terms are correctly enforced from translation memory.
Christian Fellowship in Gospel Partnership
Burmese name: သတင်းကောင်း၌ ခရစ်ယာန်မိတ်သဟာယ
Key terms: fellowship, pillars, false_brothers
Review routing: Automated review
The right-hand-of-fellowship gesture formalizing shared gospel partnership between Paul and the Jerusalem pillars; minimal doctrinal risk beyond ensuring မိတ်သဟာယ is not read as mere social association within a monastery-affiliated lay community.
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