Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — Acts 1–28 (English → Dogri)
Purpose and Method
This document provides the complete doctrine matrix for the Acts curriculum, organized two ways for full-book coverage per the PRD Phase 1 mandate:
- Part 1 — Doctrine Matrix by Risk Tier: every doctrine defined in
assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json, with supporting Acts passages, the specific translation risk it carries into Dogri, and its review routing. Doctrine names, Dogri doctrine names, and risk tiers are reproduced exactly from the registry; no tier is altered here. - Part 2 — Chapter-by-Chapter Walkthrough: every chapter of Acts, first (1) to last (28), listing which doctrines are active in that chapter and any chapter-specific translation notes. Chapters that introduce no new doctrine or term beyond what is already documented are explicitly marked “reviewed — no new doctrinal content” rather than silently omitted.
Acts 2:1–41 (Pentecost) is the curriculum’s theological anchor and receives the deepest treatment, but scope is the entire book.
Part 1 — Doctrine Matrix by Risk Tier
Critical (14 doctrines — mandatory human theologian review, every occurrence)
| Doctrine | Dogri Doctrine Name | Supporting Acts Passages | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | पवित्तर आत्मा ते पिन्तेकुस्त | 1:5; 1:8; 2:1-4; 2:16-18; 2:33; 2:38 | Personal, settled indwelling/empowering could be re-heard as oracle-medium trance-possession (masani/devi-aana) or शक्ति-style impersonal goddess-power; “poured out” could evoke abhishek ritual pouring on an idol. | Human theologian |
| Messianic Promise | मसीह दा वादा | 2:22-36; 3:18-26; 13:32-39; 17:2-3; 26:22-23 | Messiah must remain the specific, exclusively-fulfilled OT category, not one avatar/deity among the region’s actively venerated figures. | Human theologian |
| Resurrection of Christ | मसीह दा मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना | 1:3; 2:24-32; 3:15; 4:2,33; 13:30-37; 17:18,31-32; 23:6; 24:15,21; 26:23 | Never पुनर्जन्म; bodily, historical, once-for-all rising must survive repeated narrated skepticism (17:32) and intra-Jewish dispute (23:6-8) without softening. | Human theologian |
| Ascension of Christ | मसीह दा स्वर्गे चढ़ना | 1:9-11 | Must not read as a mythic sky-journey resembling a local deity’s ascent, nor a repeatable avatar-descent-and-return, nor a reincarnation-cycle event. | Human theologian |
| Lordship of Christ | मसीह दा प्रभुपन | 2:33-36; 10:36; 16:31; 20:21 | Never महाराजा (Dogra dynastic title); exaltation must read as divine enthronement, not political-historical honor. | Human theologian |
| Deity and Sonship of Christ | मसीह दा ईश्वरत्व ते पुत्तरपन | 7:56; 9:20; 13:33 | ”Son of Man” (7:56) must retain Danielic divine-dominion force, not read as mere self-reference to being human; “Son of God” (9:20) must retain full co-equal deity, not avatar-style or metaphorical sonship. | Human theologian |
| Repentance | मन फिराव दा सिद्धांत | 2:38; 3:19; 11:18; 17:30; 20:21; 26:20 | Must not collapse into ritual guilt-expiation (pilgrimage/vow) or izzat-repair; is Spirit-enabled whole-person reorientation, extended explicitly to Gentiles (11:18). | Human theologian |
| Baptism | बपतिस्मा दा सिद्धांत | 2:38,41; 8:12,36-38; 9:18; 10:47-48; 16:15,33; 18:8; 19:1-5 | Must not be taught as a purificatory ritual bath (cf. Vaishno Devi darshan preparatory bathing); 19:1-7 requires an explicit note distinguishing John’s baptism from Spirit-accompanied Christian baptism, since one Dogri word serves both referents. | Human theologian |
| The Gift of the Holy Spirit | पवित्तर आत्मा दा दान | 2:38; 8:14-20; 10:44-47; 11:15-17; 19:1-6 | Never वरदान (a boon for devotion/vow); Simon the sorcerer’s attempt to purchase the gift (8:18-20) must read as a rebuked error, not a viable transactional model. | Human theologian |
| Abolition of the Purity Boundary Between Jew and Gentile | गैर-यहूदियां आस्तै शुद्धता दी हद्द दा टुट्टणा | 10:9-16,28,34-35; 11:1-18; 15:6-11 | The sharpest collision point in this culture: शुद्ध/अशुद्ध maps directly onto live caste (jāti) purity-pollution categories; must be taught with full force, never trivialized into dietary trivia. | Human theologian |
| Justification apart from the Law | व्यवस्था बिना धर्मी ठहराए जाना | 13:38-39; 15:1-11; 15:19-21 | Must reuse the baseline’s compound forensic phrase exactly; the Jerusalem Council’s resolution (15:11) must match baseline grace exactly, resisting a law-plus-grace synthesis. | Human theologian |
| The Jerusalem Council’s Grace Decision | यरूशलेम सभा दा दया दा फैसला | 15:1-29 | Must match baseline Critical grace rendering exactly (बिना कमाई दित्ती दया); no residual law-observance requirement may be implied for Gentile believers. | Human theologian |
| Conversion of Paul | पौलुस दा मन फिराव | 9:1-19; 22:6-16; 26:12-18 | Must not flatten into generic moral transformation or a guru-disciple “awakening” narrative; God’s sovereign initiative, not Paul’s spiritual striving, must remain the clear cause. | Human theologian |
| Eternal Life | सदा दे जीवन दा सिद्धांत | 13:46-48 | Never मुक्ति nor moksha-as-dissolution; unending, personal, resurrection-continuous life with God granted by sovereign election. | Human theologian |
High (14 doctrines — mandatory human theologian review)
| Doctrine | Dogri Doctrine Name | Supporting Acts Passages | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit-Empowered Speech (Tongues) | आत्मा दित्ती बोली | 2:4-11 | Must retain the text’s own insistence (v.6,8,11) on real intelligible languages, not unintelligible ecstatic trance-speech associated with shrine mediums. | Human theologian |
| Fulfillment of Joel’s Prophecy | योएल दी भविष्यवाणी दा पूरा होना | 2:16-21 | Linear historical fulfillment, not a cyclical cosmic age (yuga); “day of the Lord” must not be assimilated to muhurat-style auspicious-day calculation. | Human theologian |
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | यहूदियां ते गैर-यहूदियां आस्तै खरी खबर | 1:8; 10:1-48; 11:1-18; 13:46-48; 15:1-29; 28:28 | The book’s Jew-to-Gentile trajectory must be preserved chapter by chapter, not pre-collapsed into one flattened statement losing the narrative’s unfolding logic. | Human theologian |
| God’s Impartiality | परमेश्वर दा निष्पक्षपात | 10:34-35; 15:9 | Directly challenges Dogra Rajput lineage-honor (izzat) and caste stratification; must never be softened for honor-culture sensibilities. | Human theologian |
| The Circumcision Controversy | खतने दा विवाद | 15:1-5,24; 16:3; 21:20-25 | खतना carries strong contemporary Islamic-practice association; every occurrence needs a translator note clarifying this is the first-century OT covenant-sign dispute, not a Christian-Muslim controversy. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Miracles and Signs | अचम्भे ते निशान | 2:43; 3:1-10; 4:30; 5:12; 8:6-7; 9:32-42; 14:3; 19:11-12; 28:8-9 | Must be distinguished from miracle-claims attributed to shrine deities (Vaishno Devi, Baba Jitto) so Christ’s authenticating signs are not read as one more instance of a familiar regional pattern. | Human theologian |
| Counterfeit Spiritual Power (Sorcery and Divination) | नकली आत्मिक शक्ति | 8:9-24; 13:6-11; 16:16-18; 19:13-19 | Parallels tona-totka, jadu, ojha/faqir consultation; text condemns these as counterfeit/demonic, never a lesser-but-real neutral power beside the Spirit’s power. | Human theologian |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | जफ़ाकशी ते निडर गवाही | 4:1-31; 5:17-42; 7:54-8:3; 12:1-19; 14:19-20; 16:19-24 | Spirit-empowered gospel courage must not be conflated with Dogra Rajput martial/honor bravado (izzat-defending), a different motivational root. | Human theologian |
| The Martyrdom of Stephen | स्तिफनुस दी गवाही ते मौत | 6:8-7:60 | Must not be assimilated to the local Baba Jitto folk-martyr cult (protest self-sacrifice, Aghar Jitto shrine); Stephen witnesses to the risen Christ and forgives his killers — categorically distinct. | Human theologian |
| Divine Election and Calling | परमेश्वर दी चोन ते सद्द | 9:15; 13:48; 22:14; 26:16-18 | Must be distinguished from किस्मत (fate) and from mannat-outcome logic, per the baseline election entry. | Human theologian |
| The Living God versus Idols | जिंदा परमेश्वर ते मूर्तियां | 14:8-18; 17:16-31; 19:23-41 | Directly confronts active regional temple devotion (Raghunath Mandir, Bahu Fort, Vaishno Devi); मूर्ति stays the ordinary reverential word, so the polemic must target the object’s theological status while keeping respectful tone; Areopagus rhetoric is common-ground-then-correction, never an implicit affirmation of local deities as unknowing worship of the true God. | Human theologian |
| The Way as the Singular Path | मसीह दी इक्को राह् | 9:2; 19:9,23; 22:4; 24:14,22 | ”Path/marg” language is pervasive across Indian religious traditions (bhakti-marg, sarva-dharma-sama-bhava); must always be anchored to Christ by name to block a syncretistic “one path among many” reading. | Human theologian |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | राज्य दा कम्म पूरा होना | 1:8; 13:47; 20:24-27; 26:23; 28:23-31 | Must retain God’s unstoppable ongoing mission, not a completed political-historical achievement comparable to the region’s own ended princely-state history. | Human theologian |
| Providence of God | परमेश्वर दा प्रबन्ध | 1:7; 5:38-39; 12:5-17; 16:25-34; 18:9-10; 27:21-25 | Must never render as किस्मत; Gamaliel’s test (5:38-39) and the storm narrative (ch.27) are prime teaching passages for personal, purposive governance versus impersonal fate. | Human theologian |
Medium (7 doctrines — native speaker review)
| Doctrine | Dogri Doctrine Name | Supporting Acts Passages | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apostolic Authority | भेजेआ जाने आलें दा अधिकार | 1:2; 1:21-26; 2:42-43; 4:33; 5:12 | Must retain unique, Christ-commissioned office distinct from a generic teacher/guru role; casting lots (1:26) must not be conflated with ज्योतषी-style fortune-telling. | Native speaker review |
| The Church as Community | समाज दे रूप च कलीसिया | 2:42-47; 4:32-35 | The four marks and possession-sharing unity must be distinguished from biradari/clan solidarity and generic devotional practice; “breaking of bread” must never suggest prasad-style consecrated-food consumption. | Native speaker review |
| Diaconal Ministry | सेवा दे कम्म दा ओहदा | 6:1-6 | सेवा दा कम्म must stay anchored to Christ-centered church ministry, since सेवा is also the standard word for temple/langar volunteer merit-service. | Native speaker review |
| Church Leadership (Elders and Overseers) | कलीसिया दी अगुवाई | 14:23; 20:17-28 | Must be distinguished from biradari/panchayat lineage-elder authority; grounded instead in the gospel and Christ’s own blood-purchase of the church (20:28). | Native speaker review |
| Prayer and Intercession | प्रार्थना ते बिचाल्ले होइयै बिनती | 1:14; 2:42; 4:24-31; 12:5,12 | Direct, corporate access to God in Christ’s name; distinguish from mediated petitionary practice tied to pilgrimage/shrine vows. | Native speaker review |
| Fear of God | परमेश्वर दा डर | 5:1-11; 9:31; 19:17 | Reverential covenant awe, not superstitious appeasement of a volatile deity (e.g. propitiating Kali); Ananias-Sapphira is the key teaching passage. | Native speaker review |
| Paul’s Trials Before Authorities | पौलुस दी अदालतां अग्गे गवाही | 22:1-21; 23:1-10; 24:1-27; 25:1-27; 26:1-32 | Models bold, respectful witness under legal pressure; moderate risk of confusing the legal “appeal to Caesar” idiom with “calling on the Lord’s name” (same Greek verb, unrelated weight) — needs a disambiguating note. | Native speaker review |
Low (3 doctrines — automated review)
| Doctrine | Dogri Doctrine Name | Supporting Acts Passages | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanksgiving | धन्नवाद | 27:35; 28:15 | Standard baseline vocabulary; minor risk of over-ritualization only. | Automated review |
| The Unhindered Advance of the Gospel | बिना रोक-टोक खरी खबर दा फैलणा | 28:30-31 | Minimal doctrinal risk; straightforward hopeful statement. | Automated review |
| Narrative Legal Proceedings | कानूनी कारवाई दा ब्यान | 16:37-39; 22:25-29; 25:11; 4:15; 5:27 | Legal-historical narrative detail with minimal doctrinal weight. | Automated review |
Part 2 — Chapter-by-Chapter Walkthrough (Full Book Coverage)
Acts 1 — Ascension, the Promised Spirit, Replacing Judas
Active doctrines: Ascension of Christ (Critical, 1:9-11); The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (Critical, 1:5,1:8, promise stage); The Great Commission Fulfilled (High, 1:8 programmatic mandate); Providence of God (High, 1:7, “times or seasons… the Father has fixed”); Apostolic Authority (Medium, 1:2,1:21-26, casting lots to replace Judas); Prayer and Intercession (Medium, 1:14); Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 1:3, forty days of appearances) presupposed as narrative foundation. Notes: Casting lots (1:26) requires explicit distinction from ज्योतषी-style divination — this is a one-time, Scripture-sanctioned discernment act, not an ongoing oracular practice.
Acts 2 — Pentecost (Core Passage, 2:1-41)
Active doctrines: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (Critical); Spirit-Empowered Speech/Tongues (High); Fulfillment of Joel’s Prophecy (High); Messianic Promise (Critical, 2:22-36); Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 2:24-32); Lordship of Christ (Critical, 2:33-36); Repentance (Critical, 2:38); Baptism (Critical, 2:38,41); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (Critical, 2:38); The Church as Community (Medium, 2:42-47); Apostolic Authority (Medium, 2:42-43); Prayer and Intercession (Medium, 2:42). Notes: This chapter carries the single highest concentration of Critical doctrines in the book and anchors the curriculum. Peter’s sermon structure (Scripture fulfillment → Messiah/resurrection/Lordship → repentance/baptism call) must be preserved as an integrated unit; splitting doctrinal claims across segments risks losing the sermon’s cumulative force.
Acts 3 — Healing at the Temple Gate, Peter’s Second Sermon
Active doctrines: Apostolic Miracles and Signs (High, 3:1-10); Messianic Promise (Critical, 3:18-26); Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 3:15); Repentance (Critical, 3:19). Notes: Titles “Servant of God” and “Holy and Righteous One” (glossary B.4) reinforce Christ’s unique divine-Servant identity; must not be softened into a generic holy-man honorific.
Acts 4 — Peter and John Before the Council; Believers’ Unity
Active doctrines: Persecution and Bold Witness (High, 4:1-31); The Church as Community (Medium, 4:32-35); Apostolic Authority (Medium, 4:33); Providence of God (High, implicit in the believers’ prayer 4:24-31). Notes: The apostles’ “boldness” (parrēsia) must be anchored to Spirit-empowered gospel courage, distinguished from Dogra Rajput izzat-defending bravado.
Acts 5 — Ananias and Sapphira; Apostles Persecuted Again
Active doctrines: Fear of God (Medium, 5:1-11); The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (Critical — “lying to the Holy Spirit” affirms the Spirit’s full personal deity, 5:3-4); Apostolic Miracles and Signs (High, 5:12); Persecution and Bold Witness (High, 5:17-42); Providence of God (High, 5:38-39, Gamaliel’s test). Notes: Ananias and Sapphira’s sin is lying to God himself, not merely to a human institution — this must be unambiguous in the Dogri rendering.
Acts 6 — Choosing the Seven; Stephen Seized
Active doctrines: Diaconal Ministry (Medium, 6:1-6); Apostolic Authority (Medium, laying on of hands, 6:6); Apostolic Miracles and Signs (High, 6:8); The Martyrdom of Stephen (High, narrative begins, 6:8-7:60). Notes: सेवा दा कम्म must stay Christ-centered, not read as generic temple/langar merit-service.
Acts 7 — Stephen’s Speech, Vision, and Death
Active doctrines: The Martyrdom of Stephen (High, 6:8-7:60); Deity and Sonship of Christ (Critical, 7:56, “Son of Man” at God’s right hand); Persecution and Bold Witness (High). Notes: The Son of Man vision must retain full Danielic divine-dominion force. Stephen’s death and forgiveness must be kept categorically distinct from the local Baba Jitto folk-martyr cult.
Acts 8 — Philip in Samaria; Simon the Sorcerer; the Ethiopian
Active doctrines: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (High, Samaritan mission begins); Counterfeit Spiritual Power (High, 8:9-24, Simon Magus); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (Critical, 8:14-20); Apostolic Miracles and Signs (High, 8:6-7); Baptism (Critical, 8:12,36-38). Notes: Simon’s attempt to purchase the Spirit’s power must read as a rebuked error against the gift’s unearned nature, never as evidence the gift is a purchasable/transactional boon.
Acts 9 — Saul’s Conversion; Peter’s Miracles
Active doctrines: Conversion of Paul (Critical, 9:1-19); Divine Election and Calling (High, 9:15); Baptism (Critical, 9:18); The Way as the Singular Path (High, 9:2); Deity and Sonship of Christ (Critical, 9:20); Apostolic Miracles and Signs (High, 9:32-42). Notes: God’s sovereign initiative — not Saul’s own spiritual striving — must remain the unambiguous cause of the conversion.
Acts 10 — Peter and Cornelius
Active doctrines: Abolition of the Purity Boundary Between Jew and Gentile (Critical, 10:9-16,28,34-35); God’s Impartiality (High, 10:34-35); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (High, 10:1-48); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (Critical, 10:44-47); Baptism (Critical, 10:47-48). Notes: This is the theological hinge chapter for Gentile inclusion. शुद्ध/अशुद्ध must be handled with full theological force given live caste-purity resonance in the destination culture.
Acts 11 — The Church Affirms Gentile Inclusion
Active doctrines: Abolition of the Purity Boundary Between Jew and Gentile (Critical, 11:1-18); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (High, 11:1-18); Repentance (Critical, 11:18, extended explicitly to Gentiles); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (Critical, 11:15-17). Notes: “Christian” (masihi) is introduced (11:26) as an established, low-risk descriptive term built on मसीह.
Acts 12 — Peter’s Deliverance from Prison
Active doctrines: Providence of God (High, 12:5-17); Prayer and Intercession (Medium, 12:5,12); Persecution and Bold Witness (High, 12:1-19). Notes: No new terms; reinforces existing Critical/High categories.
Acts 13 — Paul’s First Missionary Sermon (Antioch); Bar-Jesus
Active doctrines: Messianic Promise (Critical, 13:32-39); Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 13:30-37); Justification apart from the Law (Critical, 13:38-39); Eternal Life (Critical, 13:46-48); Divine Election and Calling (High, 13:48); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (High, 13:46-48); Counterfeit Spiritual Power (High, 13:6-11, Bar-Jesus/Elymas). Notes: 13:38-39 is the first explicit justification-apart-from-law statement in Acts and must reuse the baseline forensic phrase धर्मी ठहराए जाना exactly.
Acts 14 — Iconium, Lystra, Derbe; “We Also Are Men”
Active doctrines: The Living God versus Idols (High, 14:8-18); Church Leadership (Medium, 14:23, elders appointed); Apostolic Miracles and Signs (High, 14:3). Notes: Paul and Barnabas’s refusal of the crowd’s worship (14:14-18) must clearly reject the “living deity visiting us” framing without implying the crowd’s underlying religious instinct was validly directed, only mistakenly aimed.
Acts 15 — The Jerusalem Council
Active doctrines: Justification apart from the Law (Critical, 15:1-11,19-21); The Jerusalem Council’s Grace Decision (Critical, 15:1-29); The Circumcision Controversy (High, 15:1-5,24); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (High). Notes: The single most important grace-statement chapter after Acts 2 and Romans; grace rendering must be byte-for-byte consistent with baseline. खतना requires the mandatory OT-covenant-sign translator note distinguishing it from Islamic khitan associations.
Acts 16 — Lydia, the Philippian Jailer, the Slave Girl with a Spirit
Active doctrines: Baptism (Critical, 16:15,33, household baptisms); Counterfeit Spiritual Power (High, 16:16-18, python spirit); Persecution and Bold Witness (High, 16:19-24); Providence of God (High, 16:25-34); Narrative Legal Proceedings (Low, 16:37-39, Roman citizenship). Notes: Household salvation language (16:31,34) must avoid an automatic corporate/kinship-salvation reading; the gospel moves through family networks, but each member responds personally.
Acts 17 — Athens, the Areopagus
Active doctrines: The Living God versus Idols (High, 17:16-31); Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 17:18,31-32, mocked and disputed). Notes: Paul’s “unknown god” reference (17:23) is a historical rhetorical bridge that Paul then corrects, not an affirmation that the Athenians’ worship unknowingly reached the true God — this distinction must be explicit, given its direct relevance to how the gospel might be presented alongside Duggar temple devotion.
Acts 18 — Corinth; Priscilla and Aquila; Apollos
Reviewed — no new doctrine beyond categories already established (baptism 18:8 reuses Critical baptism doctrine; providence 18:9-10 reuses existing High providence doctrine; no new terms introduced). Narrative continuity chapter.
Acts 19 — Ephesus: Disciples of John, Sorcery, the Riot of the Silversmiths
Active doctrines: Baptism (Critical, 19:1-5, John’s baptism vs. Christian baptism — mandatory disambiguating note); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (Critical, 19:1-6); Counterfeit Spiritual Power (High, 19:13-19); The Living God versus Idols (High, 19:23-41, Artemis/Diana of the Ephesians); The Way as the Singular Path (High, 19:9,23); Apostolic Miracles and Signs (High, 19:11-12). Notes: The Artemis cult parallels the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage economy pedagogically (a temple-based livelihood threatened by gospel advance) and should be taught pastorally, not as direct condemnation of the destination culture’s own shrine economy.
Acts 20 — Paul’s Farewell at Miletus
Active doctrines: Church Leadership (Elders and Overseers) (Medium, 20:17-28); The Great Commission Fulfilled (High, 20:24-27); Providence of God (High, implicit). Notes: “Whole counsel of God” (20:27) inherits the Providence doctrine’s risk profile; elders’ authority is grounded in Christ’s own blood-purchase of the church (20:28), distinct from biradari/panchayat lineage-elder authority.
Acts 21 — Paul’s Vow and Arrest in Jerusalem
Active doctrines: The Circumcision Controversy (High, 21:20-25); doctrine-adjacent term मन्नत (Nazirite vow) used correctly here for a real OT vow — distinct from its forbidden use for “grace” per the baseline. Notes: Requires a disambiguating translator note every occurrence: this vow context is legitimate OT/Jewish practice, categorically different from the forbidden mannat-for-grace transactional logic.
Acts 22 — Paul’s Defense Before the Jerusalem Crowd
Active doctrines: Conversion of Paul (Critical, 22:6-16, retelling); The Way as the Singular Path (High, 22:4); Paul’s Trials Before Authorities (Medium, 22:1-21); Narrative Legal Proceedings (Low, 22:25-29, Roman citizenship).
Acts 23 — Paul Before the Sanhedrin; Plot Against Paul
Active doctrines: Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 23:6, Pharisee-Sadducee dispute); Paul’s Trials Before Authorities (Medium, 23:1-10); Narrative Legal Proceedings (Low).
Acts 24 — Paul Before Felix
Active doctrines: Paul’s Trials Before Authorities (Medium, 24:1-27); Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 24:15,21); term “judgment to come” (24:25) inherits universal-human-accountability weight from the Romans baseline.
Acts 25 — Paul Before Festus; Appeal to Caesar
Active doctrines: Paul’s Trials Before Authorities (Medium, 25:1-27); Narrative Legal Proceedings (Low, 25:11, appeal to Caesar). Notes: “Appeal to Caesar” must be disambiguated from the theologically loaded “calling on the Lord’s name” — same Greek verb, unrelated doctrinal weight.
Acts 26 — Paul Before Agrippa
Active doctrines: Conversion of Paul (Critical, 26:12-18, retelling); Divine Election and Calling (High, 26:16-18); Resurrection of Christ (Critical, 26:23); Repentance (Critical, 26:20); Paul’s Trials Before Authorities (Medium, 26:1-32).
Acts 27 — The Voyage and Shipwreck
Active doctrines: Providence of God (High, 27:21-25); Thanksgiving (Low, 27:35). Notes: Paul’s confident announcement mid-storm exemplifies personal divine governance versus impersonal fate — a key teaching moment for the providence/किस्मत distinction.
Acts 28 — Malta and Arrival in Rome
Active doctrines: The Great Commission Fulfilled (High, 28:23-31); The Unhindered Advance of the Gospel (Low, 28:30-31); Thanksgiving (Low, 28:15); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (High, 28:28). Notes: The snakebite incident (28:3-6) carries only narrative color and no new doctrinal weight beyond providence, already documented; reviewed and not separately escalated. The book’s open-ended close must retain the sense of ongoing, unstoppable mission rather than a completed historical achievement.
Cross-Document Consistency Statement
Every doctrine name, Dogri doctrine name, risk tier, and review routing in Part 1 above is reproduced without alteration from assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json v1. This document adds no new doctrine and changes no tier; it supplies the passage-by-passage and chapter-by-chapter coverage the registry itself does not spell out, and must be read together with 08_core_glossary.md for term-level detail.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Dogri name: पवित्तर आत्मा ते पिन्तेकुस्त
Key terms: Holy Spirit, Pentecost, filled with the Holy Spirit, other tongues, poured out
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit’s personal, settled indwelling and empowering must be sharply distinguished from local oracle-medium spirit-possession/trance practice (masani/devi-possession) and from शक्ति-style impersonal goddess-power already flagged Critical in the baseline holy_spirit entry; ‘other tongues’ must be taught as real known languages, not ecstatic trance-speech, and ‘poured out’ must never evoke abhishek-style ritual pouring upon an idol.
Messianic Promise
Dogri name: मसीह दा वादा
Key terms: messiah, christ, David, seed of David
Review routing: Human theologian
Messiah remains a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, never one of several avatar-figures or locally venerated deities; Peter’s and Paul’s sermons repeatedly ground this claim in Scripture fulfillment, which must be preserved with full exclusivist force.
Resurrection of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना
Key terms: resurrection, raised, from the dead
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: never पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation). Acts repeatedly stages this doctrine’s reception amid mockery (17:32) and intra-Jewish dispute (23:6-8), useful teaching material for a Dogri context where the doctrine may also meet skepticism; the bodily, once-for-all nature of the resurrection must be retained throughout.
Ascension of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा स्वर्गे चढ़ना
Key terms: ascension, taken up, received up
Review routing: Human theologian
A unique, historical, bodily departure completing the resurrection; must not be read as a mythic sky-journey akin to a local deity’s ascent narrative, nor as a repeatable avatar-descent-and-return pattern, nor assimilated to a reincarnation cycle.
Lordship of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा प्रभुपन
Key terms: Lord, Lord and Christ, exalted, right hand of God
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: exclusive, supreme Lordship. Must never use महाराजा, the historic Dogra dynastic royal title, which would frame Christ’s exaltation as political-historical honor rather than divine enthronement.
Deity and Sonship of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा ईश्वरत्व ते पुत्तरपन
Key terms: Son of God, Son of Man, Holy and Righteous One
Review routing: Human theologian
Stephen’s vision of the ‘Son of Man’ at God’s right hand (7:56) must retain the Danielic force of a divine, dominion-receiving figure, not read as a mere synonym for ‘a human being’; Paul’s preaching that Jesus ‘is the Son of God’ (9:20) must retain full co-equal divine sonship, not metaphorical or avatar-style sonship.
Repentance
Dogri name: मन फिराव दा सिद्धांत
Key terms: repent, repentance, turn
Review routing: Human theologian
Must never collapse into ritual guilt-expiation (e.g. a pilgrimage or vow undertaken to remove wrongdoing) or into social shame-repair (restoring izzat); this is a Spirit-enabled whole-person reorientation toward God, inseparable from faith, extended explicitly to Gentiles as well as Jews (11:18).
Baptism
Dogri name: बपतिस्मा दा सिद्धांत
Key terms: baptize, baptism, in the name of Jesus Christ
Review routing: Human theologian
Must never be taught as a purificatory ritual bath removing ritual pollution (भिट्ट) or as parallel to ceremonial bathing at a pilgrimage site (e.g. Vaishno Devi darshan); it is a once-for-all public identification with Christ’s death/resurrection and entry into the church. Acts 19:1-7 requires an explicit note distinguishing John’s repentance-baptism from Spirit-accompanied Christian baptism, since both use the same Dogri word.
The Gift of the Holy Spirit
Dogri name: पवित्तर आत्मा दा दान
Key terms: gift of the Holy Spirit, receive the Holy Spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit himself is given apart from merit or vow; must never use वरदान (a boon granted by a deity for devotion or a vow) nor be treated as a purchasable power, as Simon the sorcerer mistakenly attempted (8:18-20).
Abolition of the Purity Boundary Between Jew and Gentile
Dogri name: गैर-यहूदियां आस्तै शुद्धता दी हद्द दा टुट्टणा
Key terms: clean, unclean, common, no partiality
Review routing: Human theologian
The single sharpest collision point in Acts for this culture: शुद्ध/अशुद्ध purity-pollution categories are a live, socially consequential system in North India, historically entangled with caste (jāti) hierarchy and untouchability. This doctrine must be taught with full force — God himself abolished the purity-boundary separating Jew from Gentile — without trivializing it into dietary trivia or leaving it under-explained so hearers unconsciously re-map it onto existing caste-purity thinking.
Justification apart from the Law
Dogri name: व्यवस्था बिना धर्मी ठहराए जाना
Key terms: justified, justification, circumcision, yoke, grace
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires the same compound forensic phrase (धर्मी ठहराए जाना) established in the baseline; the Jerusalem Council’s resolution (15:11, ‘saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus’) must match the baseline’s grace rendering exactly and must not be softened toward a law-plus-grace synthesis.
The Jerusalem Council’s Grace Decision
Dogri name: यरूशलेम सभा दा दया दा फैसला
Key terms: grace, saved, yoke, circumcision
Review routing: Human theologian
The council’s grace-alone verdict is one of the clearest single-passage grace-statements in Acts and must match the baseline’s Critical grace rendering (बिना कमाई दित्ती दया) exactly, resisting both a merit reading and any residual law-observance requirement for Gentile believers.
Conversion of Paul
Dogri name: पौलुस दा मन फिराव
Key terms: chosen instrument, the Way, light, scales fell from his eyes
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul’s conversion is God’s sovereign, gracious intervention transforming a persecutor into a chosen instrument — must not be flattened into a generic moral-transformation story or a ‘seeker finds enlightenment’ narrative resembling a guru-disciple awakening account; God’s sovereign initiative, not Paul’s own spiritual striving, must remain the clear cause.
Eternal Life
Dogri name: सदा दे जीवन दा सिद्धांत
Key terms: eternal life, appointed to eternal life
Review routing: Human theologian
Must never collapse into मुक्ति (liberation from the rebirth cycle, forbidden by the baseline) nor into moksha-as-dissolution-into-Brahman; this is unending, personal, resurrection-continuous life with God, granted to those appointed by God’s sovereign election.
High Risk Doctrines
Spirit-Empowered Speech (Tongues)
Dogri name: आत्मा दित्ती बोली
Key terms: other tongues, each in his own language
Review routing: Human theologian
Must retain the text’s own insistence (v.6, 8, 11) that hearers understood real languages; a rendering suggesting unintelligible ecstatic utterance would collapse this sign into a trance-speech phenomenon associated with regional shrine mediums.
Fulfillment of Joel’s Prophecy
Dogri name: योएल दी भविष्यवाणी दा पूरा होना
Key terms: last days, pour out my Spirit, day of the Lord, prophesy
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear, historical fulfillment of an OT prophecy, not a cyclical cosmic age (yuga); ‘pour out’ must never evoke abhishek-style ritual pouring upon an idol, and ‘day of the Lord’ must not be assimilated to muhurat-style auspicious-day calculation.
The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Dogri name: यहूदियां ते गैर-यहूदियां आस्तै खरी खबर
Key terms: gospel, Gentiles, nations, the Way
Review routing: Human theologian
The book’s overall trajectory from an exclusively Jewish audience to full Gentile inclusion must be preserved chapter by chapter; Dogri learners should be able to trace this progression without it being pre-collapsed into a single undifferentiated statement that loses the narrative’s own unfolding logic.
God’s Impartiality
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दा निष्पक्षपात
Key terms: no partiality, God shows no partiality
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly challenges Dogra Rajput lineage-honor (izzat) stratification and caste hierarchy; must be translated with full theological clarity and never softened to accommodate honor-culture sensibilities about rank or lineage.
The Circumcision Controversy
Dogri name: खतने दा विवाद
Key terms: circumcision, law, yoke
Review routing: Human theologian
The Perso-Arabic-derived word खतना carries a strong contemporary association with Islamic practice in North Indian usage; every occurrence requires a translator note clarifying this is the OT Mosaic covenant sign under first-century Jewish-Christian dispute, not a Christian-Muslim controversy, so as not to import an unrelated interreligious frame.
Apostolic Miracles and Signs
Dogri name: अचम्भे ते निशान
Key terms: wonders and signs, healing, miracles
Review routing: Human theologian
Miracles specifically and exclusively authenticate the risen Christ and apostolic gospel proclamation; must be distinguished from miracle-claims attributed to shrine deities (e.g. reported healings at Vaishno Devi or the Baba Jitto shrine) so that Christ’s unique authenticating signs are not read as one more instance of a familiar regional miracle-working pattern.
Counterfeit Spiritual Power (Sorcery and Divination)
Dogri name: नकली आत्मिक शक्ति
Key terms: sorcery, magic, spirit of divination
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly parallels widely practiced regional occult practices (tona-totka, jadu, consultation of ojhas/faqirs, oracle-mediums); the text explicitly condemns these as counterfeit and demonic, not as a lesser-but-real neutral power alongside the Holy Spirit’s power, and this sharp distinction must never be blurred.
Persecution and Bold Witness
Dogri name: जफ़ाकशी ते निडर गवाही
Key terms: boldness, witness, persecution
Review routing: Human theologian
Spirit-empowered courage to proclaim Christ despite threat must be anchored to gospel testimony, not conflated with Dogra Rajput martial/honor courage (izzat-defending bravado), which springs from a different motivational root entirely.
The Martyrdom of Stephen
Dogri name: स्तिफनुस दी गवाही ते मौत
Key terms: witness unto death, Son of Man, forgiveness
Review routing: Human theologian
Stephen’s death must not be assimilated to, or explained by analogy with, the regional folk-martyr cult of Baba Jitto (self-sacrifice in protest against an exploitative landlord, venerated with Bua Kauri at the Aghar Jitto shrine); Stephen’s death is a witness to the risen Christ and an act of forgiveness toward his killers, categorically distinct from a folk-martyr’s protest-sacrifice, exactly as the baseline already distinguishes Christ’s own atonement from that local tradition.
Divine Election and Calling
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दी चोन ते सद्द
Key terms: election, called, chosen instrument, appointed
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign, personal choice of Paul and of believers generally must be distinguished from किस्मत (impersonal fate) and from the outcome-of-a-vow logic of the mannat economy, consistent with the baseline’s election entry.
The Living God versus Idols
Dogri name: जिंदा परमेश्वर ते मूर्तियां
Key terms: living God, idols, unknown god, idol/image
Review routing: Human theologian
This doctrine repeatedly and directly confronts active regional temple devotion (Raghunath Mandir, Bahu Fort, Vaishno Devi). मूर्ति is the unavoidable, ordinarily reverential word for a consecrated image; the polemic must target the object’s theological status while maintaining respectful, non-inflammatory tone toward Hindu neighbors. Paul’s Areopagus strategy is rhetorical common ground followed by sharp correction, never an implicit affirmation that local deities are unknowingly-worshipped forms of the true God.
The Way as the Singular Path
Dogri name: मसीह दी इक्को राह्
Key terms: the Way
Review routing: Human theologian
‘Path’ (marg) language is pervasive across Indian religious traditions (bhakti-marg, karma-marg, sarva-dharma-sama-bhava); this term must always be anchored to Christ by name in context to prevent a syncretistic ‘one path among several equally valid paths’ misreading.
The Great Commission Fulfilled
Dogri name: राज्य दा कम्म पूरा होना
Key terms: ends of the earth, witnesses, unhindered, whole counsel of God
Review routing: Human theologian
The book’s programmatic mandate (1:8) and its hopeful, deliberately open-ended close (28:31, gospel preached ‘unhindered’) must retain the sense of God’s unstoppable, ongoing mission, not a completed political-historical achievement comparable to the Dogra kingdom’s own now-ended princely-state history.
Providence of God
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दा प्रबन्ध
Key terms: providence, God works, if this is of God
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive governance through persecution, imprisonment, and the storm at sea must never be rendered as किस्मत (impersonal fate); Gamaliel’s test (‘if this plan is of God,’ 5:38-39) and the storm narrative (ch.27) are prime teaching passages for this distinction.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostolic Authority
Dogri name: भेजेआ जाने आलें दा अधिकार
Key terms: apostle, apostles’ teaching, casting lots
Review routing: Native speaker review
Apostleship must retain its unique, Christ-commissioned office distinct from a generic religious teacher or guru role; casting lots (1:26) must not be conflated with ज्योतषी-style fortune-telling. Risk is moderate because the concept, while foreign, is not directly collided with by an existing local category of equivalent authority.
The Church as Community
Dogri name: समाज दे रूप च कलीसिया
Key terms: fellowship, breaking of bread, one heart and soul, devoted themselves
Review routing: Native speaker review
The four marks of the early church and its radical possession-sharing unity must be distinguished from biradari/clan solidarity and from generic bhakti-style devotional practice untethered from the concrete practices Luke names; breaking of bread in particular must never suggest prasad-style consecrated-food consumption.
Diaconal Ministry
Dogri name: सेवा दे कम्म दा ओहदा
Key terms: table service, laying on of hands
Review routing: Native speaker review
Table service (सेवा दा कम्म) must be anchored explicitly to Christ-centered church ministry flowing from the gospel, since सेवा is also the standard word for temple/langar volunteer service performed for religious merit in regional Hindu and Sikh practice.
Church Leadership (Elders and Overseers)
Dogri name: कलीसिया दी अगुवाई
Key terms: elders, overseer, shepherd
Review routing: Native speaker review
Church-elder and overseer authority is spiritual and Scripture-accountable, flowing from the gospel and Christ’s own blood-purchase of the church (20:28); must be distinguished from biradari/panchayat lineage-elder authority resting on clan seniority.
Prayer and Intercession
Dogri name: प्रार्थना ते बिचाल्ले होइयै बिनती
Key terms: prayer, intercession
Review routing: Native speaker review
Direct, corporate access to God in Christ’s name; must be distinguished from mediated petitionary practice associated with pilgrimage and shrine vows, consistent with the baseline’s intercession entry.
Fear of God
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दा डर
Key terms: fear of God, great fear
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reverential awe within covenant relationship, not superstitious appeasement of a volatile deity (e.g. propitiating an angry Kali at Bahu Fort); the Ananias-Sapphira account is the key teaching passage for this distinction.
Paul’s Trials Before Authorities
Dogri name: पौलुस दी अदालतां अग्गे गवाही
Key terms: witness, the Way, judgment to come, appeal to Caesar
Review routing: Native speaker review
Paul’s repeated testimony before Jewish and Roman authorities models bold, respectful gospel witness under legal pressure; moderate risk from potential confusion between the legal ‘appeal to Caesar’ idiom and the theologically loaded ‘calling on the Lord’s name’ (same Greek verb, unrelated weight), requiring a disambiguating note rather than doctrinal escalation.
Low Risk Doctrines
Thanksgiving
Dogri name: धन्नवाद
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks
Review routing: Automated review
Standard vocabulary reused from the baseline; minor risk of over-ritualization, otherwise doctrinally stable.
The Unhindered Advance of the Gospel
Dogri name: बिना रोक-टोक खरी खबर दा फैलणा
Key terms: unhindered
Review routing: Automated review
The book’s closing note carries minimal doctrinal risk; a straightforward, hopeful statement of the gospel’s unstoppable advance.
Narrative Legal Proceedings
Dogri name: कानूनी कारवाई दा ब्यान
Key terms: Roman citizen, appeal to Caesar, Sanhedrin
Review routing: Automated review
Legal-historical narrative details with minimal doctrinal weight; automated review sufficient beyond standard consistency checks.
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