Doctrine Analysis

This curriculum’s doctrine registry tracks 40 doctrines drawn from Romans 1-16, each recorded in full in doctrine_risk_registry.json with its risk tier, key terms, primary passages, and review routing.

Risk distribution

• Critical (8): Messianic Promise, Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Lordship of Christ, Grace, Salvation. All eight require human theologian review for every occurrence, because each has a fluent, tempting Buddhist or animist substitute that inverts the doctrine.
• High (17): doctrines including Gospel, Divine Calling, Sanctification, Providence, and Universal Human Accountability, where mistranslation creates serious theological confusion even if it doesn’t outright invert the doctrine.
• Medium (12): doctrines like Apostleship, Faith, Adoption, and Church as God’s People, where a native speaker review is sufficient because the risk is reduced clarity rather than doctrinal inversion.
• Low (3): Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, and Christian Fellowship, cleared for automated review.

Why Grace and Salvation outrank their Hindi-context equivalents

In Theravada Buddhist practice, merit-making is a daily, near-universal act (almsgiving to monks, temple donation, precept observance), arguably more pervasive in ordinary life than karma-talk is in many Hindu contexts. That pervasiveness is why Grace is rated Critical here rather than High — the competing framework isn’t a background belief, it’s an action most readers perform routinely.

Why Faith is Medium rather than High

Burmese has a genuine cognate concept, သဒ္ဓါ (confidence in the Triple Gem built through verified experience), which reduces the risk of blank incomprehension. The remaining risk is narrower: making sure the object of faith is understood as trust in a person’s finished work, not experiential confidence built up through one’s own practice.

Review routing summary

25 of 40 doctrines (all Critical and High) route to mandatory human theologian review; 12 Medium-risk doctrines route to native speaker review; 3 Low-risk doctrines are cleared for automated review only. See doctrine_risk_registry.json’s risk_summary block for the exact counts.