11 Doctrine Analysis — Matthew 1–28 (Full-Book Coverage)

This document extends the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json methodology to the Matthew curriculum. It is fully consistent with the accompanying assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (same doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing). Every chapter of Matthew 1–28 is represented below; chapters that only reuse doctrines already introduced in earlier chapters are marked accordingly rather than omitted. The core passage, Matthew 5:1–12 (the Beatitudes), anchors the curriculum theologically but does not limit the scope of this analysis.

Risk tier definitions (identical to baseline): Critical = human theologian review required, every occurrence; High = human theologian review required; Medium = native speaker review recommended; Low = automated review sufficient.

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Section 1 — Matthew 1–2: Infancy Narrative

Doctrine	Supporting Passages (Matthew)	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	1:1, 1:16–18	Critical	Never conflate with မိတ္တေယျ (Metteyya); genealogy establishes literal Davidic descent, a category foreign to Burmese religious tradition.	Human theologian
Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy	1:22–23, 2:15, 2:17–18, 2:23	High	ပြည့်စုံစေခြင်း must convey linear, one-time historical fulfillment, not cyclical world-age recurrence.	Human theologian
Incarnation	1:18–23	Critical	Virginal conception must not be assimilated to nat-spirit conception folk tales or Jataka birth legends.	Human theologian
Deity of Christ (Immanuel)	1:23	Critical	”God with us” must retain full ontological force, not a visiting deity/spirit motif.	Human theologian
The Holy Spirit	1:18, 1:20	Critical	Requires explicit teaching of a permanent divine Person, against anatta’s denial of any permanent self/spirit.	Human theologian
Genealogical and Proper Name Consistency	1:1–17, 2:1–23	Low	Consistent transliteration of David, Israel, Herod only.	Automated review

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Section 2 — Matthew 3–4: Preparation and Beginning of Ministry

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Kingdom of Heaven	3:2, 4:17	Critical	Must be taught as identical referent to ဘုရားသခင်၏နိုင်ငံတော်; never a temporary merit-attained heavenly realm.	Human theologian
Repentance	3:2, 3:8, 3:11, 4:17	High	Distinguish from ritual confession before the Triple Gem; requires relational reorientation toward a personal God.	Human theologian
Baptism	3:1–17	High	Distinguish from ritual/ceremonial water purification at pagodas.	Human theologian
The Holy Spirit	3:11, 3:16	Critical	Same as Section 1.	Human theologian
Sonship of Christ	3:17, 4:3, 4:6	Critical	Honorific “-တော်” must mark Christ’s unique Sonship, never applied to believers.	Human theologian
Spiritual Warfare and Satan	4:1–11	Critical	မာရ်နတ် collides with Māra, the Buddha’s tempter-deity; Satan is a singular, defeated, created adversary, not a being within samsara.	Human theologian
Divine Calling	4:18–22	High	God’s sovereign call distinguished from ကံဇာတာ (karmic destiny).	Human theologian

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Section 3 — Matthew 5–7: Sermon on the Mount (Core Passage: 5:1–12)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Kingdom Ethics of the Beatitudes	5:3–12 (core passage)	Critical	မင်္ဂလာရှိသော collides directly with the Mangala Sutta’s 38 auspicious conditions; the Beatitudes pronounce God’s favor-verdict on those a merit framework calls unfortunate — the precise inversion of that logic. Mandatory translator note on every occurrence.	Human theologian
The Kingdom of Heaven	5:3, 5:10, 6:33	Critical	As above.	Human theologian
Adoption and Believers’ Sonship	5:9	High	”-တော်” honorific must never attach to plural believer-sonship.	Human theologian
Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	5:10–12	Critical	Persecution “for righteousness” is pastorally live given real social/familial cost of conversion in Myanmar.	Human theologian
The Prophetic Office	5:12	Low	ပရောဖက် distinguished from ဗေဒင်ဆရာ (astrologer).	Automated review
Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees	5:20, 5:21–48, 6:1–18	Critical	Must not be heard as an intensified merit/precept list (“stricter Vinaya”) rather than heart-level transformation.	Human theologian
The Law and the Prophets	5:17–19, 7:12	High	ပညတ်တရား never confused with ဝိနည်း (monastic Vinaya).	Human theologian
Religious Hypocrisy	6:1–18	Medium	Public religious performance carries high social-merit value in Burmese culture; critique targets the heart, not visible practice per se.	Native speaker review
Sin and Human Accountability	6:12, 6:14–15	High	အပြစ် never အကုသိုလ် (demerit).	Human theologian
The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching	5:2, 7:28–29	Critical	Inherent, non-derived divine authority, not scribal-derivational authority.	Human theologian

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Section 4 — Matthew 8–9: Miracles and Authority

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Son of Man Title	8:20, 9:6	Critical	လူသား must retain full Danielic divine-authority freight, never flattened to “a human being.”	Human theologian
Universal Scope of the Gospel	8:5–13	High	Centurion’s commended faith must retain full force as evidence the gospel excludes no ethnic group.	Human theologian
Unity of Jews and Gentiles	8:11–12	High	Challenges ethnic-religious priority; sensitive given Burmese Buddhist-Burman identity dynamics.	Human theologian
Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	8:18–22	Critical	Not flattened into a vague endurance idiom.	Human theologian
Faith	8:5–13, 9:2, 9:22, 9:29	Medium	Trust in Jesus’ person/word, not experiential confidence akin to သဒ္ဓါ.	Native speaker review
Sin and Human Accountability	9:2–6	High	Same as Section 3.	Human theologian
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	9:27	Critical	”Son of David” acclamation by the blind men.	Human theologian

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Section 5 — Matthew 10: Mission Discourse

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Mission to the Nations	10:5–6, 10:18	Medium	သာသနာပြုလုပ်ငန်း carries Buddhist-institutional flavor; context must clarify gospel proclamation, not Sasana-building.	Native speaker review
Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	10:34–39	Critical	”Not peace but a sword” is figurative familial division, never literal violence.	Human theologian

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Section 6 — Matthew 11–12: Responses to Jesus / Conflict with Religious Leaders

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	11:2–6	Critical	”The one who is to come” requires OT expectation background.	Human theologian
The Law and the Prophets	11:13	High	Same as Section 3.	Human theologian
The Prophetic Office	11:9–13	Low	Same as Section 3.	Automated review
The Son of Man Title	12:8	Critical	Same as Section 4.	Human theologian
Prophetic Typology: Sign of Jonah	12:38–41	High	Requires Jonah narrative background; establishes predicted-then-fulfilled pattern for the resurrection.	Human theologian
The Church and Church Discipline / Resurrection of Christ (typological link)	12:39–40	Critical	ထမြောက်ခြင်း only; never rebirth-cycle terminology.	Human theologian
The Holy Spirit	12:28	Critical	Same as Section 1.	Human theologian
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit	12:31–32	Critical	Precisely a settled, willful rejection — must not induce false despair.	Human theologian
Sabbath and Fulfillment of the Law	12:1–14	High	ဥပုသ်နေ့ also names Buddhist Uposatha observance; distinguish covenantal rest from merit-generating observance.	Human theologian
Spiritual Warfare and Satan	12:24–29	Critical	Same as Section 2.	Human theologian
Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy	12:17–21	High	Same as Section 1.	Human theologian

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Section 7 — Matthew 13: Parables of the Kingdom

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Kingdom of Heaven	13:11	Critical	Same as Section 2/3.	Human theologian
Parables of the Kingdom	13:1–52	Medium	ဥပမာ is also the standard Dhamma-teaching simile term; Jesus’ parables are revelatory (reveal/conceal by hearer response), not generic illustrative similes.	Native speaker review
Judgment and the End of the Age	13:24–30, 13:36–43, 13:49	Critical	Linear, final, one-time consummation, not a recurring kalpa’s end.	Human theologian
Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy	13:14–15, 13:35	High	Same as Section 1.	Human theologian
Spiritual Warfare and Satan	13:19, 13:39	Critical	Same as Section 2.	Human theologian

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Section 8 — Matthew 14–17: Miracles, Confession, Transfiguration

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Deity of Christ	14:33, 16:16, 17:5	Critical	Reuses baseline doctrines already established in chs. 1–3; no new terms introduced in ch. 14 per the core glossary, but doctrinal weight is fully present.	Human theologian
Sonship of Christ	14:33, 16:16, 17:5	Critical	Honorific discipline maintained.	Human theologian
Unity of Jews and Gentiles / Universal Scope of Gospel	15:21–28	High	Canaanite woman’s faith commended; gospel excludes no ethnic group.	Human theologian
Religious Hypocrisy	15:1–9	Medium	”Tradition of men” must not rival God’s own commandment; pastorally sensitive re: Burmese customary practice.	Native speaker review
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	15:22	Critical	Same as Section 4/6.	Human theologian
The Church and Church Discipline	16:18	High	Founding declaration; church as new-covenant community, not a monastery-centered institution.	Human theologian
Church Authority: Binding and Loosing	16:19	High	Risk of being heard through weizza/amulet-incantation binding practices; must be taught as delegated, Spirit-guided declaration.	Human theologian
Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	16:24–26	Critical	”Take up the cross” requires historical crucifixion background, unfamiliar in Burmese context.	Human theologian
The Son of Man Title	16:13	Critical	Same as Section 4.	Human theologian
Transfiguration and the Glory of Christ	17:1–8	High	Not read through nat-spirit shape-shifting folklore, nor as evidence of impermanence (anicca); a momentary disclosure of pre-existing glory.	Human theologian
Resurrection of Christ	17:9, 17:23	Critical	ထမြောက်ခြင်း only.	Human theologian

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Section 9 — Matthew 18: Church Discipline Discourse

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Church and Church Discipline	18:6–9, 18:15–20	High	Restorative, relational process aimed at repentance, not punitive exclusion analogous to village/monastic shunning.	Human theologian
Church Authority: Binding and Loosing	18:18–20	High	Same as Section 8.	Human theologian
Grace Versus Merit	18:21–35	Critical	Unlimited forgiveness parable is a grace-shaped asymmetry, not reciprocal merit-exchange; cuts against daily merit-making practice.	Human theologian
Sin and Human Accountability	18:15, 18:21	High	Same as Section 3.	Human theologian

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Section 10 — Matthew 19–20: Teaching on Kingdom Life

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Marriage and Divorce	19:3–12	Medium	Marriage as creation-ordinance requires positive teaching rather than assumed cultural equivalence.	Native speaker review
Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus	19:12, 19:16–30	Critical	”Eunuchs for the kingdom” is kingdom-service devotion, not merit-seeking monastic celibacy (ရဟန်းပြုခြင်း explicitly rejected as equivalence).	Human theologian
Grace Versus Merit	19:16–26, 20:1–16	Critical	Eye-of-the-needle and laborers-in-the-vineyard parables are Matthew’s sharpest illustrations against merit-proportional reward logic.	Human theologian
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	20:30–31	Critical	Same as Section 4/6/8.	Human theologian
Atonement and Ransom	20:28	Critical	ရွေးနှင်းရာဖိုး conveys a price paid by another, not self-liberation through discipline.	Human theologian

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Section 11 — Matthew 21–23: Jerusalem Confrontation

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David	21:9, 22:42	Critical	”Hosanna, Son of David” is public messianic recognition fulfilling Zechariah 9:9.	Human theologian
Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy	21:4–5	High	Same as Section 1.	Human theologian
Unity of Jews and Gentiles	21:43	High	Wicked-tenants/rejected-stone warning against religious/ethnic entitlement; handle with pastoral care in Myanmar context.	Human theologian
Divine Calling / Election	22:14	High	ရွေးကောက်ခြင်း never ကံဇာတာ/ကံကြမ္မာ.	Human theologian
The Law and the Prophets	22:40	High	Greatest-commandment summary; same as Section 3.	Human theologian
Civil Authority	22:15–22	Medium	Requires non-partisan pastoral handling in contemporary Myanmar political context.	Native speaker review
Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees / Religious Hypocrisy	23:1–36	Critical / Medium	Woes critique performance without inward transformation, not generic anti-Jewish polemic nor sangha-equivalence.	Human theologian

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Section 12 — Matthew 24–25: Eschatological Discourse

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Judgment and the End of the Age	24:1–51	Critical	Linear, final, one-time consummation, never a recurring kalpa’s end.	Human theologian
The Great Tribulation	24:21–22	Critical	Direct collision with First Noble Truth dukkha; a bounded historical period, not universal metaphysical suffering.	Human theologian
Election	24:22, 24:31	High	Same as Section 11.	Human theologian
The Son of Man Title	24:27–44, 25:31	Critical	”Coming of the Son of Man” is a single, final, universally visible event, never repeatable.	Human theologian
Judgment and the End of the Age (Sheep and Goats)	25:31–46	Critical	Mercy flows from relationship with Christ, not an independent works-merit path.	Human theologian
Eternal States: Heaven and Hell	25:41, 25:46	Critical	ထာဝရ must be genuinely final and unending, not an impermanent samsaric rebirth-destination.	Human theologian
Stewardship and Accountability	25:14–30	Medium	Reward is relational commendation, not a proportional wage/merit-accumulation.	Native speaker review

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Section 13 — Matthew 26–27: Passion Narrative

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Atonement and Ransom	26:26–28	Critical	Once-for-all sacrificial covenant institution, not repeatable merit-ritual.	Human theologian
Sin and Human Accountability	26:28	High	Same as Section 3/9.	Human theologian
Deity of Christ / Sonship of Christ	26:63–64, 27:40, 27:43, 27:54	Critical	Under direct examination and mockery; honorific and ontological claims must not be softened.	Human theologian
The Son of Man Title	26:64	Critical	Same as Section 12.	Human theologian
Crucifixion and Death of Christ	27:32–56	Critical	Genuine historical/physical death, the necessary premise for a genuine bodily resurrection; not a docetic escape narrative.	Human theologian

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Section 14 — Matthew 28: Resurrection and Great Commission

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Resurrection of Christ	28:1–10	Critical	ထမြောက်ခြင်း; narrative and doctrinal climax.	Human theologian
The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching / Deity of Christ	28:18	Critical	Total, cosmic, non-derived authority grounding the Commission.	Human theologian
The Great Commission	28:16–20	Critical	Compresses at least four Critical-risk terms (authority, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, end of the age) into six verses; verbatim theologian review required for every clause.	Human theologian
The Holy Spirit	28:19	Critical	Trinitarian formula; same as Section 1.	Human theologian
Mission to the Nations	28:19	Medium	Same collision risk as Section 5.	Native speaker review
Unity of Jews and Gentiles / Universal Scope of Gospel	28:19	High	”All nations” retains full universalizing force.	Human theologian
Judgment and the End of the Age	28:20	Critical	”To the end of the age” reuses ch. 13 term exactly; never a recurring kalpa’s end.	Human theologian

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Full Chapter Coverage Confirmation

Every chapter of Matthew has been reviewed above. No chapter is silently omitted. Chapters not separately headlined by a table row above are covered within their narrative section as follows: all 28 chapters (1–28) appear in Sections 1–14; chapter 14 in particular carries no new terminology (per the Core Glossary, Section C) but is explicitly retained above under Section 8 because it bears full doctrinal weight for the Deity and Sonship of Christ (14:33).

Risk Summary (Consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json)

Tier	Count	Review Routing
Critical	21	Human theologian (every occurrence)
High	15	Human theologian
Medium	7	Native speaker review
Low	2	Automated review
Total doctrines	45	36 theologian / 7 native speaker / 2 automated

This table reproduces the risk_summary block of assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly; no discrepancy exists between the two artifacts.

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See assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json for the machine-readable registry and analysis/08_core_glossary.md for term-level renderings. See analysis/04_comparative_theology.md for cross-tradition interpretive comparison of the doctrines named in the curriculum parameters.

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Critical Risk Doctrines

Atonement and Ransom

Burmese name: အပြစ်ဖြေရာနှင့် ရွေးနှင်းရာဖိုး
Key terms: ransom, body_and_blood_of_the_covenant, crucifixion
Review routing: Human theologian

ရွေးနှင်းရာဖိုး must convey a price paid by another (Christ) to secure release from bondage to sin, not a metaphor for self-liberation through discipline or the extinguishing of craving.

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The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching

Burmese name: ယေရှု၏ သွန်သင်ချက်တော်၏ အခွင့်အာဏာ
Key terms: authority, all_authority_given_to_me
Review routing: Human theologian

အခွင့်အာဏာ carries strong political/military connotations in everyday Burmese (state or ruling power); must be taught as Jesus’ inherent, non-derived divine authority, unlike a scribe citing tradition or a king ruling by force.

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Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

Burmese name: သန့်ရှင်းသောဝိညာဉ်တော်ကို ကဲ့ရဲ့ခြင်း
Key terms: blasphemy_against_the_holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

Must be taught precisely as a settled, willful attribution of the Spirit’s clearly divine work to an evil source, not any single doubt or sin, to avoid inducing false despair among believers already anxious about merit-tallying.

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Crucifixion and Death of Christ

Burmese name: ခရစ်တော် လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်တင်ခံခြင်းနှင့် အသေခံခြင်း
Key terms: crucifixion, cry_of_dereliction, temple_veil_torn
Review routing: Human theologian

Christ’s death must be taught as a genuine, historical, physical death, not a docetic illusion as sometimes implied in folk-narrative accounts of miraculous escapes from death, since the reality of his death is the necessary premise for the reality of his bodily resurrection.

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Deity of Christ

Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၏ဘုရားဇာတိ
Key terms: immanuel, son_of_god, transfigured, truly_this_was_the_son_of_god, all_authority_given_to_me
Review routing: Human theologian

Christ’s co-equal, eternal divine nature must not be presented as an enlightened human teacher elevated to a Brahma-realm deity through accumulated merit.

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Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus

Burmese name: တပည့်တော်ဖြစ်ခြင်းနှင့် ကျေးဇူးဆပ်ရမည့်တန်ဖိုး
Key terms: disciple, not_peace_but_a_sword, take_up_the_cross, narrow_gate_and_way, eunuchs_for_the_kingdom, persecuted_for_righteousness
Review routing: Human theologian

‘Take up the cross’ requires the historical reality of Roman crucifixion (unfamiliar in the Burmese context) to be taught explicitly, so it is not flattened into a vague idiom for enduring hardship; the cost of allegiance to Christ carries genuine, non-hypothetical social and familial cost for converts from Buddhism.

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Eternal States: Heaven and Hell

Burmese name: ထာဝရအသက်နှင့် ထာဝရမီး
Key terms: eternal_fire_and_eternal_life
Review routing: Human theologian

ထာဝရ must be taught as a genuinely final, unending state determined once by a personal God’s righteous judgment, not a temporary rebirth-destination within an ultimately impermanent and escapable cycle of samsara.

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Grace Versus Merit

Burmese name: ကျေးဇူးတော်နှင့် ကုသိုလ်ကံ ခြားနားခြင်း
Key terms: grace, laborers_in_the_vineyard, forgive_unlimited, eye_of_a_needle
Review routing: Human theologian

Grace as unearned favor cuts directly against the daily lay practice of merit-making (ကုသိုလ်ပြုခြင်း); the laborers-in-the-vineyard parable, in which every worker receives the same wage regardless of hours, is Matthew’s single sharpest illustration against a merit-proportional reward system.

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The Great Commission

Burmese name: ကြီးမြတ်သောစေခိုင်းချက်တော်
Key terms: make_disciples_of_all_nations, baptizing_in_the_name_of_the_trinity, all_authority_given_to_me, end_of_the_age
Review routing: Human theologian

This single passage compresses at least four Critical-risk baseline/new terms (authority, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, end of the age) into six verses; every clause requires verbatim theologian review given the density of doctrinal weight in a single commissioning statement.

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The Great Tribulation

Burmese name: ကြီးစွာသောဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲခြင်း
Key terms: great_tribulation
Review routing: Human theologian

ဒုက္ခ names the First Noble Truth’s universal, metaphysical suffering inherent to all conditioned existence within samsara; Matthew’s ‘great tribulation’ is instead a specific, bounded, historical period preceding a personal God’s decisive judgment, a categorically different claim requiring sustained catechetical distinction.

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The Holy Spirit

Burmese name: သန့်ရှင်းသောဝိညာဉ်တော်ဆိုင်ရာသွန်သင်ချက်
Key terms: holy_spirit, blasphemy_against_the_holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

Theravada doctrine (anatta) denies any permanent self or spirit-entity at all, so သန့်ရှင်းသောဝိညာဉ်တော် requires explicit teaching that the Holy Spirit is a permanent divine person, the third Person of the Trinity, not an impermanent consciousness-stream or a nat.

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Incarnation

Burmese name: လူ့ဇာတိခံယူခြင်း
Key terms: incarnation, virgin, immanuel, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

The virginal conception must not be assimilated to Burmese nat-husband spirit-conception folk tales or Jataka birth legends of a bodhisatta framed within karma and rebirth; it is a unique, once-for-all act of the personal, eternal God.

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Judgment and the End of the Age

Burmese name: စစ်ကြောစီရင်ခြင်းနှင့် ကမ္ဘာအဆက်ဆုံးချိန်
Key terms: weeds_and_harvest_end_of_age, end_of_the_age, abomination_of_desolation, sheep_and_goats, eternal_fire_and_eternal_life
Review routing: Human theologian

ကမ္ဘာအဆက်ဆုံးချိန် must never be read through the lens of a recurring kalpa’s end within Buddhist cosmology’s beginningless world-cycles; this is a linear, final, one-time consummation of history under a personal God’s judgment.

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Kingdom Ethics of the Beatitudes

Burmese name: မင်္ဂလာတရားတော်
Key terms: blessed, poor_in_spirit, meek, mourn_and_comforted, merciful, pure_in_heart, peacemakers, persecuted_for_righteousness, reward
Review routing: Human theologian

မင်္ဂလာရှိသော collides directly with the Mangala Sutta’s 38 auspicious conditions secured through right conduct; the Beatitudes pronounce God’s sovereign favor-verdict on those a merit/auspiciousness framework would call unfortunate (the poor, the mourning, the persecuted), the precise inversion of that framework’s logic.

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The Kingdom of Heaven

Burmese name: ကောင်းကင်နိုင်ငံတော်
Key terms: kingdom_of_heaven, kingdom_of_god, mysteries_of_the_kingdom, parable
Review routing: Human theologian

ကောင်းကင်နိုင်ငံတော် must be taught as identical in referent to ဘုရားသခင်၏နိုင်ငံတော် (baseline), never as a temporary, merit-attained heavenly realm (နတ်ပြည်) within samsara that is lost once accumulated merit is exhausted.

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Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David

Burmese name: မေရှိယကတိတော်နှင့် ဒါဝိဒ်၏သားတော်
Key terms: messiah, son_of_david, seed_of_david, the_one_who_is_to_come, hosanna_son_of_david
Review routing: Human theologian

Never conflate မေရှိယ with မိတ္တေယျ (Metteyya, the future Buddha of Theravada expectation); Son of David acclamations require explicit OT Davidic covenant background, since Burmese religious tradition has no analogous royal-line covenant concept.

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Resurrection of Christ

Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၏ထမြောက်ခြင်း
Key terms: resurrection, sign_of_jonah, he_is_not_here_he_has_risen
Review routing: Human theologian

ထမြောက်ခြင်း must never be rendered with ပဋိသန္ဓေတည်ခြင်း or ပြန်လည်မွေးဖွားခြင်း (rebirth into the cycle of samsara); this is the same body raised bodily, once for all.

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Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees

Burmese name: ဖာရိရှဲများ၏ ဖြောင့်မတ်ခြင်းထက်သာလွန်ခြင်း
Key terms: righteousness, hunger_and_thirst_for_righteousness, perfect, law_and_the_prophets, tradition_of_men, hypocrite, yoke_and_rest, greatest_commandment, scribes_and_pharisees_woes
Review routing: Human theologian

The ‘exceeding’ comparison must not be taught as trying harder at merit-accumulation than the Pharisees; the antitheses relocate righteousness from external act to internal disposition, but if mishandled could still be heard as an intensified precept-list (a ‘stricter Vinaya’) rather than heart-level transformation flowing from grace.

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The Son of Man Title

Burmese name: လူသားဟူသောနာမည်တော်
Key terms: son_of_man, coming_of_the_son_of_man
Review routing: Human theologian

လူသား must never be flattened to a mere synonym for ‘a human being’ or ‘humanity in general’; it carries the full Danielic divine-authority and eschatological-glory freight of Daniel 7:13-14, a category with no ready Burmese parallel.

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Sonship of Christ

Burmese name: ခရစ်တော်၏သားတော်ဇာတိ
Key terms: son_of_god, sons_of_god_believers
Review routing: Human theologian

The honorific ‘-တော်’ distinguishing Christ’s unique Sonship (သားတော်) from believers’ derivative sonship (သား, no honorific) must be applied with total consistency; conflating the two would imply believers share Christ’s unique deity.

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Spiritual Warfare and Satan

Burmese name: မာရ်နတ်နှင့် ဝိညာဉ်ရေးတိုက်ပွဲ
Key terms: devil_satan
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL COLLISION: မာရ်နတ် borrows the name of Māra, the tempter-deity of Burmese Buddhist cosmology who unsuccessfully opposed the Buddha’s enlightenment; biblical Satan is a singular, defeated, created adversary under God’s ultimate sovereignty, not a being within an endless cycle of rebirth.

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High Risk Doctrines

Adoption and Believers’ Sonship

Burmese name: ယုံကြည်သူတို့၏ သားအဖြစ်ခံယူခြင်း
Key terms: sons_of_god_believers, son_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian

The honorific ‘-တော်’ must never be applied to believers’ plural sonship (ဘုရားသခင်၏သားများ); this filial identity is a status conferred by grace, not achieved, but must be kept visibly distinct from Christ’s unique, singular Sonship.

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Baptism

Burmese name: ဗတ္တိဇံမင်္ဂလာ
Key terms: baptism
Review routing: Human theologian

Baptism must be distinguished from ritual water-purification/bathing practices at pagodas; it is a decisive, once-for-all sign of repentance and covenant identification, not a repeatable ritual cleansing.

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The Church and Church Discipline

Burmese name: အသင်းတော်နှင့် စည်းကမ်းသိပ်သည်းမှု
Key terms: church, stumbling_block, church_discipline_procedure, forgive_unlimited
Review routing: Human theologian

Church discipline must be taught as a restorative, relational process aimed at repentance and restoration, not punitive social exclusion analogous to shunning practices in some Burmese village or monastic community discipline.

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Church Authority: Binding and Loosing

Burmese name: အသင်းတော်၏ ချုပ်ခြင်းနှင့်လွှတ်ခြင်း အခွင့်အာဏာ
Key terms: keys_of_the_kingdom_bind_and_loose
Review routing: Human theologian

Risk of being heard through the lens of weizza (esoteric adept) or amulet/incantation practices that ‘bind’ spirits or fortune through ritual formula; must be taught as delegated, Spirit-guided authoritative declaration exercised by the gathered church.

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Divine Calling

Burmese name: ဘုရားသခင်၏ခေါ်တော်မူခြင်း
Key terms: called, many_called_few_chosen
Review routing: Human theologian

God’s sovereign call must be distinguished from ကံဇာတာ (fixed karmic destiny) and from a revocable invitation a person can simply decline.

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Election

Burmese name: ရွေးကောက်ခြင်း
Key terms: election, many_called_few_chosen
Review routing: Human theologian

ရွေးကောက်ခြင်း must never be rendered with ကံဇာတာ/ကံကြမ္မာ (karma-fixed destiny determined by accumulated past-life actions).

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Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy

Burmese name: ဓမ္မဟောင်းကျမ်း ပရောဖက်ပြုချက်၏ပြည့်စုံခြင်း
Key terms: fulfill, prophecy, prophet, sign_of_jonah, den_of_robbers
Review routing: Human theologian

ပြည့်စုံစေခြင်း must convey linear, historically anchored, one-time fulfillment of a specific prior divine word, not the cyclical recurrence of world-ages (ကမ္ဘာ) foundational to Buddhist cosmology.

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The Law and the Prophets

Burmese name: ပညတ်တရားနှင့်ပရောဖက်ကျမ်းများ
Key terms: law, law_and_the_prophets, fulfill
Review routing: Human theologian

ပညတ်တရား must never be confused with ဝိနည်း, the term for the Buddhist monastic disciplinary code (Vinaya); Jesus’ claim to fulfill, not abolish, the Law must not be reduced to a claim about a superior monastic rule.

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Prophetic Typology: The Sign of Jonah

Burmese name: ယောနာ၏အမှတ်လက္ခဏာ ပရောဖက်ပြုချက်ပုံစံ
Key terms: sign_of_jonah, resurrection
Review routing: Human theologian

Requires the Jonah narrative background to be taught explicitly; establishes the ‘predicted-then-fulfilled’ pattern central to Matthew’s apologetic for the resurrection before it occurs.

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Repentance

Burmese name: နောင်တရခြင်း
Key terms: repentance
Review routing: Human theologian

နောင်တရခြင်း must be distinguished from ritual confession before the Triple Gem (ဝန်ချတောင်းပန်ခြင်း), which acknowledges fault without necessarily entailing sorrow before, or reconciliation with, a personal God.

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The Sabbath and Fulfillment of the Law

Burmese name: ဥပုသ်နေ့နှင့် ပညတ်တရား၏ပြည့်စုံခြင်း
Key terms: sabbath_and_lord_of_the_sabbath, law
Review routing: Human theologian

ဥပုသ်နေ့ also names the Buddhist Uposatha observance day (precept-keeping, temple attendance); the Sabbath’s covenantal, creation-rooted rest must be distinguished from a day of merit-generating religious observance, while Jesus’ lordship claim over it reuses the Critical baseline lord doctrine exactly.

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Sin and Human Accountability

Burmese name: အပြစ်နှင့် လူသားတို့၏ တာဝန်ခံမှု
Key terms: sin, tax_collectors_and_sinners, church_discipline_procedure
Review routing: Human theologian

အပြစ် must convey moral transgression against a personal God, never အကုသိုလ် (demerit, the negative counterpart of merit that lowers one’s karmic account and next-rebirth prospects).

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Transfiguration and the Glory of Christ

Burmese name: ခရစ်တော် ရုပ်တော်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းနှင့် ဘုန်းတော်
Key terms: transfigured, glory, son_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian

Must not be read through the lens of nat-spirit shape-shifting folklore, nor as evidence of impermanence (anicca) applied to Christ’s nature; this is the momentary visible disclosure of an already-existing eternal glory, not a change of being.

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Unity of Jews and Gentiles

Burmese name: ယုဒလူမျိုးနှင့် တစ်ပါးအမျိုးသားတို့၏စည်းလုံးခြင်း
Key terms: gentiles, wicked_tenants_rejected_stone, make_disciples_of_all_nations
Review routing: Human theologian

Challenges any notion that ethnic-religious identity carries inherent priority in God’s kingdom; must be rendered with full theological clarity given Burma’s own ethnic-majority/minority tensions surrounding Buddhist-Burman national identity.

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Universal Scope of the Gospel

Burmese name: သတင်းကောင်း၏ လူတိုင်းအတွက်ဖြစ်ခြင်း
Key terms: gospel, faith, make_disciples_of_all_nations
Review routing: Human theologian

The centurion’s and the Canaanite woman’s commended faith must retain full theological force as evidence that the gospel excludes no ethnic or social group, despite Burma’s religiously plural and Buddhist-majority context.

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Medium Risk Doctrines

Civil Authority

Burmese name: လောကီအာဏာပိုင်များကို လက်ခံရမှု
Key terms: render_to_caesar
Review routing: Native speaker review

Requires careful, non-partisan pastoral handling in the contemporary Myanmar political context, teaching due civil obligation without sacralizing state authority or licensing disengagement from it.

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Faith

Burmese name: ယုံကြည်ခြင်း
Key terms: faith
Review routing: Native speaker review

The cognate concept သဒ္ဓါ (confidence built through verified experience of the Triple Gem) lowers the risk of total incomprehension, but faith must be presented as trust in the person and word of Jesus, not experiential confidence in a teaching.

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Marriage and Divorce

Burmese name: အိမ်ထောင်ရေးနှင့် စွန့်လွှတ်ခြင်း
Key terms: what_god_has_joined_together
Review routing: Native speaker review

Marriage as a divinely instituted, creation-ordinance bond has low direct collision risk with Burmese Buddhist cosmology (which lacks an analogous creation-ordinance doctrine), but requires careful positive teaching rather than assumed cultural equivalence.

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Mission to the Nations

Burmese name: လူမျိုးအပေါင်းတို့အား သာသနာပြုခြင်း
Key terms: mission, make_disciples_of_all_nations
Review routing: Native speaker review

သာသနာပြုလုပ်ငန်း carries a Buddhist-institutional flavor (propagating the Buddha’s Sasana); native-speaker review should confirm surrounding context makes clear this is gospel proclamation to all peoples, not Sasana-style institution-building.

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Parables of the Kingdom

Burmese name: နိုင်ငံတော်ဆိုင်ရာ ပုံဥပမာများ
Key terms: parable, mysteries_of_the_kingdom, hidden_treasure_and_pearl
Review routing: Native speaker review

ဥပမာ is also the standard term for similes used throughout Buddhist Dhamma teaching; Jesus’ parables function as revelatory acts tied to the hearer’s relationship to the kingdom (revealing to the responsive, concealing from the hardened), a distinctly different epistemic function than an illustrative simile.

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Religious Hypocrisy

Burmese name: ဘာသာရေး လျှို့ဝှက်ကြောင်ဖျင်းမှု
Key terms: hypocrite, tradition_of_men, scribes_and_pharisees_woes
Review routing: Native speaker review

Public religious performance (almsgiving, fasting, visible devotion) carries strong social-merit value in Burmese Buddhist culture; the critique must clarify that God sees the heart, not the public display, without being read as a blanket dismissal of visible religious practice.

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Stewardship and Accountability

Burmese name: ဘဏ္ဍာစိုးမှုနှင့် တာဝန်ခံမှု
Key terms: talents
Review routing: Native speaker review

The reward for faithful stewardship (‘well done, good and faithful servant’) is relational commendation from the master, not a wage earned proportionally; should avoid conflating with a merit-accumulation framework.

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Low Risk Doctrines

Genealogical and Proper Name Consistency

Burmese name: မျိုးရိုးစဉ်ဆက်နှင့် နာမည်များ၏ တသမတ်တည်းဖြစ်မှု
Key terms: david, israel
Review routing: Automated review

Proper names (David, Israel, Herod) require only consistent, established Myanmar Bible transliteration forms; minimal doctrinal collision risk beyond consistency across lessons.

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The Prophetic Office

Burmese name: ပရောဖက်နှင့် ပရောဖက်ပြုချက်၏ရာထူး
Key terms: prophet, prophecy
Review routing: Automated review

ပရောဖက် must be distinguished from ဗေဒင်ဆရာ (astrologer/fortune-teller), a common and respected figure in Burmese folk practice; low residual risk once this distinction is established.