Doctrine Analysis
11 — Doctrine Analysis: 1 Peter (Full Book, Chapters 1–5)
Purpose
This document is the full doctrine matrix for the 1 Peter curriculum, required by PRD Phase 1 Step 4. It spans every chapter of the letter, first to last, and is fully consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json — same 24 doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing. The core passage (1 Peter 1:3-9, the Living Hope of the Resurrection) is the theological anchor for the curriculum, not its scope boundary. Doctrines already governed by the Romans baseline (Grace, Faith, Salvation, Righteousness, Holy Spirit, Deity/Sonship of Christ, Spiritual Gifts, Providence, Fellowship) are carried forward and re-risked here only where 1 Peter’s context changes the exposure (e.g., Grace rises in urgency alongside the letter’s ransom/redemption material).
Doctrine Matrix (Full Book)
| # | Doctrine | Supporting Passages (1 Peter) | Risk | Translation Risk (Grounded Reason) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Living Hope of the Resurrection | 1:3-9, 1:21, 3:21 | High | ”Pag-asa” alone reads as ordinary optimism/wishful desire, or collapses into passive bahala-na hoping; “born again” risks flattening into mechanical baptismal rebirth apart from faith. Both must be anchored explicitly to Christ’s historical, bodily resurrection every time they occur. | Human theologian |
| 2 | Divine Calling and Election | 1:1-2, 2:9, 5:10 | Medium | God’s personal foreknowledge/choice must be distinguished from swerte/kapalaran (luck/fate). | Native speaker review |
| 3 | Inspiration of Scripture and Fulfillment of Prophecy | 1:10-12, 1:23-25 | Medium | God-breathed Scripture, searched out beforehand by the prophets, must be distinguished from Church tradition/magisterial teaching as a co-equal authority, given the Philippines’ majority-Catholic theological context. | Native speaker review |
| 4 | Grace | 1:2, 1:10, 1:13, 3:7, 4:10, 5:5, 5:10, 5:12 | High | Unmerited favor must be distinguished from utang na loob (a debt of gratitude requiring repayment); grace is tied to humility (5:5) and to spouses’ equal spiritual standing (3:7), not merit or social hierarchy. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Faith | 1:5, 1:7-9, 5:9 | Medium | Personal trust in Christ, refined but not created by trial; comparatively low ambiguity given the well-established Filipino term. | Native speaker review |
| 6 | Salvation | 1:5, 1:9-10, 2:2, 3:21, 4:18 | Critical | Folk-Catholic practice can treat salvation as mechanically secured through sacramental performance apart from genuine faith. 1 Peter 3:21 itself supplies the corrective clause; every occurrence needs explicit faith-received, Spirit-guarded framing. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Holiness in Conduct | 1:14-16, 1:22, 2:1-2, 2:11-12, 3:1-6, 4:1-4 | High | Holiness is comprehensive, visible, everyday conduct (anastrophē), not liturgical performance; the 4:3 vice list (literal idol-worship) must be taught precisely as ancient pagan practice, not an implied critique of Marian/saints’ devotion. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Redemption and Ransom from a Futile Way of Life | 1:18-19 | High | The ransom Christ paid must be taught as a completed payment creating no ongoing repayment debt — directly parallel to, and reinforcing, the baseline’s Critical grace/utang-na-loob distinction. | Human theologian |
| 9 | Lordship of Christ | 1:3, 3:15, 3:22 | High | 3:15’s “sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts” requires the same exclusive, supreme Lordship precision as the Romans baseline’s 10:9 note; must not be diluted by devotional attention shared with Mary and the saints. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Deity and Preexistence of Christ | 1:11, 1:20 | High | The “Spirit of Christ” active in the OT prophets and Christ’s eternal foreordination must retain full Trinitarian/Christological precision, not a generic “prophetic spirit” or an improvised divine response to sin. | Human theologian |
| 11 | The Living Stone and the Church’s Foundation | 2:4-8 | High | The paradox of a “living stone” (a foundation stone alive because Christ is risen) must be retained; the stumbling-stone half must retain accountability without softening. | Human theologian |
| 12 | The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood | 2:5, 2:9-10 | Critical | ”Pagkapari” is the exact word for the ordained Roman Catholic priesthood, a distinct, sacramentally-ordained office central to the dominant tradition. Every occurrence needs a mandatory teaching note that this priestly identity belongs to every believer collectively, not a separate clergy class. | Human theologian |
| 13 | Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance | 2:13-17, 2:18-21, 3:1-7 | High | Filipino socialized deference to authority (paggalang, hiya, patron-client structuring) risks absorbing Peter’s voluntary, Christ-imitating submission into unreflective, fear-based, or status-preserving obedience already culturally expected, or using 3:1 to justify enduring abuse. Voluntary character and clear limits must both be retained. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake | 1:6-7, 2:19-21, 3:13-17, 4:12-19 | High | ”Pagdurusa” must retain the specific causal link — suffering because of righteous conduct, not suffering in general — and must not be read as divine punishment for sin, nor glorified for its own sake. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering | 1:18-19, 2:21-25, 3:18 | Critical | Doctrinal center of the curriculum’s atonement theme. 2:24’s sin-bearing language and 3:18’s “once for all” (ἅπαξ) must be preserved without softening; ἅπαξ must rule out any repeatable-sacrifice reading, a live risk given sacramental re-presentation theology in the dominant tradition. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits | 3:18-22, 4:6 | Critical | The single highest syncretism-risk doctrine in the curriculum for the Filipino context: multo (wandering-spirit) belief, purgatory prayers/novenas around Undas/All Souls’ Day, and anito folk-spirit belief could all be misread into this text. The ipinahayag/ipinangaral lexical distinction and the 3:19/4:6 distinction must both be preserved with an explicit “no second chance for the dead” teaching note. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Baptism and a Good Conscience | 3:20-21 | Critical | Peter’s own qualifying clause (“not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience”) is the sharpest sacramental-theology collision point in the letter and must be preserved intact against a mechanical, ritual-secures-salvation reading. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Elders and Humility | 5:1-5 | High | ”Matanda sa iglesia” without the “sa iglesia” qualifier collapses into ordinary age-elder; ἐπίσκοπος-related shepherding language must avoid “obispo” (a specific ordained office) to keep Christ as sole Chief Shepherd; Filipino deference-to-authority culture risks modeling eldership as domination rather than servant example. | Human theologian |
| 19 | Spiritual Warfare and the Devil | 5:8-9 | High | Filipino folk cosmology of malevolent spirits (aswang, multo, engkanto, mangkukulam-invoked spirits) risks being conflated with, or dismissed alongside, “diyablo.” The Devil must be taught as a real, personal, defeated-yet-active adversary resisted through faith alone, never anting-anting. | Human theologian |
| 20 | Spiritual Gifts and Stewardship | 4:10-11 | Medium | Spirit-given enablements held in stewardship, not ownership; per baseline, never anting-anting. | Native speaker review |
| 21 | Providence and God’s Care | 1:20, 3:20, 4:19, 5:7 | Medium | God’s personal, purposive, loving care and eternal plan; per baseline, never reduced to bahala na or impersonal fate. | Native speaker review |
| 22 | Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love | 1:22, 4:8-9, 5:9, 5:14 | Low | Shared participation in Christ and sincere love among believers; minimal doctrinal risk. | Automated review |
| 23 | Final Judgment and the End of All Things | 4:5, 4:7, 4:17 | Medium | Certain future judgment beginning with refining discipline within the church itself, before the world; must retain accountability for all without exception for the sacramentally observant. | Native speaker review |
| 24 | The Former Life and Literal Idolatry | 4:1-4 | High | εἰδωλολατρία names literal ancient pagan idol/feast worship and must be taught precisely as such; must not be used, even implicitly, as a coded critique of Filipino Catholic image veneration of Mary or the saints, while its actual condemnation of literal idol-worship must not be softened. | Human theologian |
Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Confirmation
Per the PRD’s full-book-coverage mandate, every chapter of 1 Peter is accounted for below. No chapter is silently omitted; sections carrying no new doctrinal freight are explicitly noted as reviewed.
Chapter 1 (1:1-25)
- 1:1-2 — Divine Calling and Election (#2); baseline reuse of “apostle,” “election,” “sanctification,” “obedience of faith,” “grace,” “peace,” “God, Father.”
- 1:3-9 — Core passage. The Living Hope of the Resurrection (#1); Salvation (#6); Faith (#5).
- 1:10-12 — Inspiration of Scripture and Fulfillment of Prophecy (#3); Deity and Preexistence of Christ (#10, “Spirit of Christ”).
- 1:13-21 — Holiness in Conduct (#7, reverent fear, former ignorance); Redemption and Ransom (#8); Providence (#21, foreknown before creation).
- 1:22-25 — Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love (#22, brotherly love); Inspiration of Scripture (#3, living word of God as imperishable seed).
- Reviewed, no new doctrine: none — every verse range in ch. 1 carries load-bearing doctrinal content.
Chapter 2 (2:1-25)
- 2:1-3 — Salvation (#6, “long for the pure spiritual milk”); Holiness in Conduct (#7).
- 2:4-8 — The Living Stone and the Church’s Foundation (#11).
- 2:9-10 — The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood (#12) — the doctrine’s fullest statement.
- 2:11-12 — Holiness in Conduct (#7, sojourners and exiles).
- 2:13-17 — Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance (#13, civil authority).
- 2:18-20 — Submission to Authority (#13, household servants); Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake (#14).
- 2:21-25 — Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering (#15) — the chapter’s doctrinal center; Submission/Christlike Endurance (#13, Christ as pattern).
- Reviewed, no new doctrine: none.
Chapter 3 (3:1-22)
- 3:1-6 — Submission to Authority (#13, wives); Holiness in Conduct (#7, gentle and quiet spirit).
- 3:7 — Grace (#4, fellow-heir of the grace of life); Submission to Authority (#13, husbands).
- 3:8-12 — Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love (#22, unity, blessing instead of reviling) — precursor tone to Elders and Humility (#18), no new named doctrine beyond fellowship.
- 3:13-17 — Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake (#14); Lordship of Christ (#9, “sanctify Christ as Lord”).
- 3:18 — Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering (#15, “suffered once for sins”); The Living Hope of the Resurrection (#1, “made alive in spirit”).
- 3:19-20a — Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits (#16).
- 3:20b-21 — Baptism and a Good Conscience (#17); Providence (#21, God’s patience).
- 3:22 — Lordship of Christ (#9, right hand of God, cosmic subjection).
- Reviewed, no new doctrine: 3:8-12 reviewed; content reinforces Fellowship (#22) and anticipates Elders and Humility (#18) but introduces no additional doctrine requiring separate risk tiering.
Chapter 4 (4:1-19)
- 4:1-4 — The Former Life and Literal Idolatry (#24); Holiness in Conduct (#7).
- 4:5 — Final Judgment and the End of All Things (#23, “judge the living and the dead”).
- 4:6 — Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits (#16, contrast case — gospel preached to the then-living, now-dead).
- 4:7-9 — Final Judgment and the End of All Things (#23, “the end of all things is at hand”); Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love (#22, love covers sins, hospitality).
- 4:10-11 — Spiritual Gifts and Stewardship (#20).
- 4:12-19 — Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake (#14); Final Judgment and the End of All Things (#23, household of God); Providence (#21, faithful Creator).
- Reviewed, no new doctrine: none.
Chapter 5 (5:1-14)
- 5:1-4 — Elders and Humility (#18).
- 5:5 — Elders and Humility (#18, humility toward elders and one another); Grace (#4, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble”).
- 5:6-7 — Providence and God’s Care (#21, cast your anxiety on him).
- 5:8-9 — Spiritual Warfare and the Devil (#19); Faith (#5, “firm in the faith”).
- 5:10-11 — Grace (#4, “God of all grace… called you to his eternal glory”); Divine Calling and Election (#2).
- 5:12-14 — Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love (#22, kiss of love); Grace (#4); Peace with God (baseline reuse, “peace to those in Christ”).
- Reviewed, no new doctrine: none.
Coverage confirmation: All five chapters of 1 Peter have been reviewed section by section. Every one of the 24 doctrines in the doctrine risk registry is anchored to specific supporting passages drawn from across the full book, not solely from the core passage (1:3-9). No chapter or major section was silently skipped.
Risk Tier Distribution (Cross-Check with Registry)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 5 | Human theologian (every occurrence) |
| High | 12 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 6 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 1 | Automated review |
| Total | 24 | — |
This distribution is identical to doctrine_risk_registry.json’s risk_summary block (Critical: 5, High: 12, Medium: 6, Low: 1; 17 requiring theologian review, 6 requiring native speaker review, 1 automated-only). No discrepancy exists between this matrix and the registry.
This document extends, and does not contradict, the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json/bible_term_registry.json and the 1 Peter doctrine_risk_registry.json and 08_core_glossary.md produced in this pipeline run. See 04_comparative_theology.md for cross-tradition interpretive analysis of each doctrine listed above.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Baptism and a Good Conscience
Filipino name: Ang Bautismo at ang Mabuting Budhi
Key terms: baptism, corresponding type, good conscience, saved through water
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Peter’s own qualifying clause (‘not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience’) is the sharpest sacramental-theology collision point in the letter and must be preserved intact and taught explicitly, distinguishing this from a folk-Catholic or nominal-sacramental view in which the physical rite itself, apart from faith and a good conscience, is believed to mechanically secure salvation.
Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits
Filipino name: Ang Pagpapahayag ni Kristo sa mga Espiritu
Key terms: spirits in prison, proclaimed, disobedient formerly, gospel preached to the dead
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: This is the single highest syncretism-risk doctrine in the curriculum for the Filipino context. Belief in wandering spirits of the dead (multo), prayers/masses/novenas offered specifically to release souls from purgatory (especially around Undas/All Souls’ Day), and folk beliefs about ancestral/nature spirits (anito) are all deeply embedded practices this text could easily be misread to support. The lexical choice of ‘ipinahayag’ (proclaimed/heralded) over ‘ipinangaral’ (preached the gospel) for κηρύσσω, and the clear distinction between 3:19’s imprisoned spirits and 4:6’s gospel preached to the (then-living, now-dead), must both be maintained with an explicit teaching note ruling out any ‘second chance for the dead’ or prayers-for-the-dead reading.
Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering
Filipino name: Ang Kahaliling Pagdurusa ni Kristo
Key terms: bore our sins on the tree, christ suffered once for sins, lamb without blemish, sprinkling of blood
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: This is the doctrinal center of the curriculum’s atonement theme. 2:24’s sin-bearing language and 3:18’s ‘once for all’ (ἅπαξ) statement must be preserved without softening; ἅπαξ specifically must rule out any notion of a repeatable sacrifice, a live risk given sacramental re-presentation theology in the dominant tradition. Any dilution into a generic ‘he suffered for us’ would erode the atonement’s forensic and sacrificial character.
The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood
Filipino name: Ang Iglesia bilang Banal at Harianong Pagkapari
Key terms: holy priesthood, royal priesthood, holy nation, God’s own possession, chosen race
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: ‘Pagkapari’ is the exact Filipino word for the ordained Roman Catholic priesthood (mga pari), a distinct, formally trained, sacramentally-ordained office central to the dominant religious tradition. Every occurrence requires a mandatory teaching note that 1 Peter applies this priestly identity and access to God to every believer collectively, not to a separate clergy class — the sharpest institutional collision point in the whole curriculum, more acute even than the baseline’s ‘saints’ Critical entry because it names an active, present-day ordained office by the same word.
Salvation
Filipino name: Kaligtasan
Key terms: salvation, guarded, outcome of faith, baptism
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Folk-Catholic practice can treat salvation as mechanically secured through receiving the sacraments apart from genuine faith. 1 Peter 3:21 itself supplies the corrective (‘not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience’), so every occurrence needs explicit framing distinguishing faith-received, Spirit-guarded salvation from ritual-guaranteed salvation.
High Risk Doctrines
Deity and Preexistence of Christ
Filipino name: Pagka-Diyos at Pananatili ni Kristo Bago Pa Man
Key terms: Spirit of Christ, foreknown before the foundation of the world
Review routing: Human theologian
The ‘Spirit of Christ’ active in the OT prophets and Christ’s eternal foreordination must retain full Trinitarian and Christological precision; risk is reading this as a generic ‘prophetic spirit’ apart from the divine Christ, or as an improvised divine response to sin rather than an eternal plan.
Elders and Humility
Filipino name: Mga Matanda sa Iglesia at Kapakumbabaan
Key terms: elder, shepherd the flock, chief Shepherd, not domineering but an example, humility
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: Two compounding risks — (1) ‘matanda sa iglesia’ without the ‘sa iglesia’ qualifier collapses into the ordinary age-sense of ‘elder,’ losing the office; and (2) ἐπίσκοπος-related shepherding language must avoid ‘obispo,’ a specific ordained denominational office in Filipino Christian usage, to keep Christ as the sole Chief Shepherd. Additionally, Filipino deference-to-authority culture creates risk that elder leadership could be modeled as hierarchical domination rather than the servant-example pattern the text commands.
The Former Life and Literal Idolatry
Filipino name: Ang Dating Pamumuhay at Literal na Pagsamba sa Diyus-diyusan
Key terms: sensuality, drunkenness, idolatry, human desires vs. God’s will
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: The vice list’s εἰδωλολατρία (idolatry) names literal ancient pagan idol/feast worship and must be taught precisely as such; this text must not be used, even implicitly, as a coded critique of Filipino Catholic image veneration of Mary or the saints, per the baseline’s respectful-tone requirement, while its actual condemnation of literal idol-worship must not be softened.
Grace
Filipino name: Biyaya
Key terms: grace, God of all grace, fellow-heir of the grace of life
Review routing: Human theologian
Unmerited favor must be distinguished from utang na loob, the deeply held Filipino social value of a debt of gratitude requiring repayment, per the baseline’s Critical forbidden-substitution rule; grace is tied to humility (5:5) and to the equal spiritual standing of spouses (3:7), not to merit or social hierarchy.
Holiness in Conduct
Filipino name: Kabanalan sa Pag-uugali
Key terms: conduct, holy, desire/lust, reverent fear, idolatry, gentle and quiet spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: Holiness in 1 Peter is comprehensive, visible, everyday conduct (‘anastrophē’), not primarily liturgical or ritual performance; the vice list at 4:3 (including literal idol-worship, εἰδωλολατρία) must be taught precisely as ancient pagan practice, not as an implied critique of Filipino Catholic Marian or saints’ devotion, requiring careful, respectful handling per the baseline’s tone rule.
The Living Hope of the Resurrection
Filipino name: Ang Buhay na Pag-asa ng Muling Pagkabuhay
Key terms: living hope, born again, resurrection, inheritance, guarded
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: ‘Pag-asa’ alone risks being heard as ordinary optimism or wishful desire, or collapsed into bahala na-style passive hoping; ‘born again’ (ipinanganak na muli) risks being flattened into mechanical baptismal rebirth apart from faith, a live risk given folk-Catholic sacramental assumptions. Both terms must be anchored explicitly and repeatedly to Christ’s historical resurrection.
The Living Stone and the Church’s Foundation
Filipino name: Ang Buhay na Bato at ang Pundasyon ng Iglesia
Key terms: living stone, cornerstone, stumbling stone, spiritual house
Review routing: Human theologian
The paradox of a ‘living stone’ must be retained (a foundation stone that is alive because Christ is risen); reducing this to a generic architectural metaphor detached from the resurrection would erode its theological force, and its stumbling-stone half must retain the doctrine of accountability without softening.
Lordship of Christ
Filipino name: Pagka-Panginoon ni Kristo
Key terms: Lord, sanctify Christ as Lord, right hand of God
Review routing: Human theologian
1 Peter 3:15’s command to ‘sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts’ requires the same exclusive, supreme Lordship precision as the baseline’s Romans 10:9 note; must not be diluted by devotional attention shared broadly with Mary and the saints.
Redemption and Ransom from a Futile Way of Life
Filipino name: Pagtubos mula sa Walang-kabuluhang Pamumuhay
Key terms: redeem, ransom, precious blood, lamb without blemish
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: The ransom Christ paid must be taught as a completed payment made on the believer’s behalf, creating no ongoing debt of repayment — parallel to, and reinforcing, the baseline’s Critical grace/utang na loob distinction; a wrong framing here would recreate exactly the debt-obligation dynamic the baseline warns against for ‘grace.‘
Spiritual Warfare and the Devil
Filipino name: Digmaang Espiritwal at ang Diyablo
Key terms: devil, firm in the faith, roaring lion
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: Filipino folk belief includes a rich, active cosmology of malevolent spirits, ghosts, and creatures (aswang, multo, engkanto, mangkukulam-invoked spirits) that risk being conflated with, or dismissed alongside, ‘diyablo.’ Teaching must affirm the Devil as a real, personal, defeated-yet-active spiritual adversary resisted through faith alone, never through charms or amulets (anting-anting, already forbidden by the baseline).
Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance
Filipino name: Pagpapasakop sa Kapangyarihan at Pagtitiis ayon kay Kristo
Key terms: submit, freedom, endurance, wives’ submission
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: Filipino culture’s strong socialized deference to authority and elders (paggalang, hiya, patron-client structuring) creates a double risk — either absorbing Peter’s voluntary, Christ-imitating submission into unreflective, fear-based, or status-preserving obedience already culturally expected, or using the household-submission material (especially 3:1’s application to wives) to justify enduring abuse. Teaching must retain both the voluntary, gospel-motivated character of the submission commanded and its clear limits.
Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
Filipino name: Pagdurusa Alang-alang sa Katuwiran
Key terms: suffer, suffering for righteousness’ sake, trial, tested genuineness
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH: ‘Pagdurusa’ must retain the specific causal link — suffering because of righteous conduct, not suffering in general — and must not be read as suffering as divine punishment for sin (a common folk-religious inference) nor as a good sought or glorified for its own sake.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Divine Calling and Election
Filipino name: Ang Pagkahirang at Pagtawag ng Diyos
Key terms: called, election, foreknowledge, chosen race
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s personal foreknowledge and choice must be distinguished from swerte/kapalaran (luck/fate), a common folk-fatalistic framing, consistent with the baseline’s election/providence caution.
Faith
Filipino name: Pananampalataya
Key terms: faith, tested genuineness of faith, firm in faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Personal trust in Christ, refined but not created by trial; well-established term with comparatively low ambiguity risk, per the baseline.
Final Judgment and the End of All Things
Filipino name: Ang Huling Paghuhukom at ang Katapusan ng Lahat ng Bagay
Key terms: the end of all things, judge the living and the dead, household of God, judgment
Review routing: Native speaker review
Certain future judgment beginning with refining discipline within the church itself, before the world; must retain accountability for all without exception for the sacramentally observant, consistent with the baseline’s universal-accountability caution.
Inspiration of Scripture and Fulfillment of Prophecy
Filipino name: Inspirasyon ng Kasulatan at Katuparan ng Propesiya
Key terms: prophets, Spirit of Christ, living word of God
Review routing: Native speaker review
God-breathed Scripture, searched out beforehand by the prophets and now proclaimed, should be distinguished from Church tradition and magisterial teaching as separate, equally weighted authorities, relevant given the Philippines’ majority-Catholic theological context.
Providence and God’s Care
Filipino name: Kalinga ng Diyos
Key terms: foreknown before creation, God’s patience, faithful Creator, cast your anxiety on him
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s personal, purposive, loving care and eternal plan; per baseline, never reduced to bahala na (fatalistic resignation) or impersonal fate.
Spiritual Gifts and Stewardship
Filipino name: Kaloob na Espirituwal at Pagiging Tagapamahala
Key terms: spiritual gift, steward, God’s varied grace
Review routing: Native speaker review
Spirit-given enablements for service, held in stewardship rather than ownership; per baseline, never anting-anting (folk amulets believed to grant supernatural power).
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship and Mutual Love
Filipino name: Pagsasamahang Kristiyano at Pagmamahalan
Key terms: brotherly love, love covers sins, hospitality, brotherhood, kiss of love
Review routing: Automated review
Shared participation in Christ and sincere love among believers; minimal doctrinal risk, consistent with the baseline’s fellowship entry.
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