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

This document is the full doctrine matrix for the Acts curriculum, executed under PRD Phase 1 Step 4/5. It is fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: same 40 doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing. Section A gives the master matrix (doctrine-first view). Section B walks chapter by chapter (Acts 1–28) so that every chapter’s doctrinal content — or explicit absence of new doctrinal content — is recorded, per the full-book coverage mandate. The core passage, Acts 2:1–41 (Pentecost), is the theological anchor of the curriculum and receives the deepest treatment, but it is not the boundary of this analysis.

Risk tier definitions (inherited from baseline, unchanged):

• Critical — mistranslation destroys essential doctrine; mandatory theologian review, every occurrence.
• High — significant theological confusion/syncretism risk; theologian review required.
• Medium — clarity reduced, core meaning preserved; native speaker review recommended.
• Low — minor imprecision risk; automated review sufficient.

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Section A — Master Doctrine Matrix

#	Doctrine (English)	Gujarati Name	Risk	Key Supporting Passages	Review Routing
1	Gospel	સુવાર્તા	High	1:8; 2:14-41; 8:4,25,35; 10:36-43; 13:32-33; 14:7,15,21; 16:10; 20:24	Human theologian
2	The Holy Spirit and Pentecost	પવિત્ર આત્મા અને પેન્તેકોસ્ત	High	1:5,8; 2:1-4,17-18,33; 4:31; 8:15-17; 10:44-46; 19:1-6	Human theologian
3	Tongues as Known Human Languages	જાણીતી ભાષાઓમાં બોલવું	High	2:4-11; 10:46; 19:6	Human theologian
4	Deity and Personhood of the Holy Spirit	પવિત્ર આત્માનું ઈશ્વરત્વ અને વ્યક્તિત્વ	Critical	5:3-4; 15:28; 20:28	Human theologian
5	Lordship of Christ	ખ્રિસ્તનું પ્રભુત્વ	Critical	2:21,33-36; 10:36; 16:31; 22:8; 26:15	Human theologian
6	Resurrection of Christ	ખ્રિસ્તનું પુનરુત્થાન	Critical	2:24-32; 3:15; 4:2,10,33; 13:30-37; 17:3,31-32; 23:6-8; 26:23	Human theologian
7	Ascension and Exaltation of Christ	ખ્રિસ્તનું સ્વર્ગારોહણ અને ઉન્નતિ	High	1:9-11; 2:33-35; 7:55-56	Human theologian
8	Incarnation (Contrast: Refusal of Divine Honors)	દેહધારણ (દેવત્વ-આરોપણનો ઇનકાર)	Critical	14:8-18; 28:1-6	Human theologian
9	Son of Man / Deity of Christ	માનવપુત્ર અને ખ્રિસ્તનું ઈશ્વરત્વ	High	7:55-56	Human theologian
10	Messianic Fulfillment	મસીહાઈ પૂર્તિ	Critical	2:29-36; 3:18-24; 13:32-37; 17:2-3; 18:5,28; 26:22-23	Human theologian
11	Repentance	પસ્તાવો	High	2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 8:22; 11:18; 17:30; 20:21; 26:20	Human theologian
12	Baptism	બાપ્તિસ્મા	High	1:5; 2:38,41; 8:12-13,36-38; 9:18; 10:47-48; 16:15,33; 18:8; 19:1-5	Human theologian
13	Forgiveness of Sins	પાપોની માફી	High	2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18	Human theologian
14	The Gift of the Holy Spirit	પવિત્ર આત્માનું દાન	High	2:38; 8:17-20; 10:45; 11:17; 19:2	Human theologian
15	The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles	યહૂદીઓ અને અન્ય પ્રજાઓ માટે સુવાર્તા	High	1:8; 9:15; 10:1-11:18; 13:46-48; 15:7-11; 18:6; 22:21; 28:28	Human theologian
16	Universal Scope of the Gospel	સુવાર્તાનો સાર્વત્રિક વ્યાપ	High	2:21,39; 10:34-35; 13:47; 15:11; 17:30	Human theologian
17	Clean and Unclean; Gentile Inclusion	શુદ્ધ-અશુદ્ધ અને અન્ય પ્રજાઓનો સમાવેશ	High	10:9-16,28; 11:1-18; 15:19-20,29	Human theologian
18	The Church as Community	સમુદાય તરીકે મંડળી	Medium	2:42-47; 4:32-35; 5:11; 6:1-6; 9:31; 11:26; 12:5,12; 20:17,28	Native speaker
19	Apostolic Authority and Office	પ્રેરિતપણાનું અધિકારપદ	Medium	1:15-26; 2:42-43; 4:33,35-37; 5:12-16; 6:6; 8:14-17; 11:1-2; 15:2,6,22-23	Native speaker
20	Apostolic Signs and Miracles	પ્રેરિતોનાં ચિહ્નો અને પરાક્રમો	High	2:22,43; 3:1-10; 5:12,15-16; 8:6-24; 9:32-42; 13:6-11; 14:3,8-10; 16:16-18; 19:11-19; 20:9-12	Human theologian
21	Persecution and Bold Witness	સતાવણી અને હિંમતવાન સાક્ષી	High	4:1-31; 5:17-42; 7:54-60; 8:1-3; 9:23-25,29; 12:1-19; 14:19; 16:19-24; 21:27-36	Human theologian
22	Martyrdom and Faithful Testimony	શહાદત અને વિશ્વાસુ સાક્ષી	High	7:54-60; 12:2; 22:20	Human theologian
23	Conversion of Paul	પાઉલનું પરિવર્તન	Critical	9:1-19; 22:3-21; 26:9-18	Human theologian
24	Election and Effectual Calling	પરમેશ્વરની પસંદગી અને અસરકારક તેડું	High	2:39; 9:15; 13:48; 16:14; 18:27	Human theologian
25	Providence of God	પરમેશ્વરનું વિધાન	High	2:23; 4:28; 17:26; 20:27; 27:22-25,34	Human theologian
26	Justification apart from the Law	નિયમશાસ્ત્ર વગર ન્યાયી ઠરાવવું	Critical	13:38-39; 15:1-11,19-20; 16:31	Human theologian
27	Grace as Unmerited Favor	કૃપા — અયોગ્ય તરફેણ	Critical	11:23; 13:43; 14:26; 15:11,40; 18:27; 20:24,32	Human theologian
28	Self-Control as Spirit-Produced Virtue	આત્મા દ્વારા ઉત્પન્ન થયેલો સંયમ	High	24:25	Human theologian
29	Idolatry and False Worship	મૂર્તિપૂજા અને ખોટી ભક્તિ	High	14:11-15; 15:20,29; 17:16,22-23,29; 19:23-41	Human theologian
30	Occult Power versus the Holy Spirit	જાદુઈ શક્તિ વિરુદ્ધ પવિત્ર આત્મા	Medium	8:9-24; 13:6-11; 16:16-18; 19:13-19	Native speaker
31	”The Way” as an Exclusive Designation	ખ્રિસ્તનો માર્ગ — વિશિષ્ટ ઓળખ	Critical	9:2; 19:9,23; 22:4; 24:14,22	Human theologian
32	The Great Commission Fulfilled	મહાન સોંપણીની પૂર્તિ	Medium	1:8; 8:4-40; 13:1-3; 16:6-10; 19:10; 28:16,30-31	Native speaker
33	Prayer and Intercession	પ્રાર્થના અને મધ્યસ્થતા	Medium	1:14; 2:42; 4:24-31; 6:4; 12:5,12; 13:2-3; 16:25	Native speaker
34	Household Faith and Covenant Solidarity	કુટુંબનો વિશ્વાસ અને કરારની એકતા	Medium	16:15,31-34; 18:8	Native speaker
35	Future Divine Judgment	ભાવિ ન્યાય	Medium	17:31; 24:25	Native speaker
36	Deliverance from Satan’s Power	શેતાનની સત્તાથી મુક્તિ	Medium	26:18	Native speaker
37	Ceremonial Liberty and OT Practice	વિધિવિધાનની સ્વતંત્રતા અને જૂના કરારની પ્રથા	Medium	16:3; 21:20-26	Native speaker
38	Thanksgiving and Praise	આભારસ્તુતિ અને સ્તુતિ	Low	2:47; 16:25; 27:35; 28:15	Automated
39	Mutual Edification and Fellowship	પરસ્પર ઉન્નતિ અને સંગત	Low	2:42,44-46; 20:7,11	Automated
40	The Naming of Believers as “Christians"	"ખ્રિસ્તી” નામની શરૂઆત	Low	11:26	Automated

Tier totals: Critical = 9, High = 19, Medium = 9, Low = 3 (total 40), matching every per-doctrine tier recorded in doctrine_risk_registry.json.

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Section B — Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Coverage (Acts 1–28)

Acts 1 — Ascension, Waiting for the Spirit, Apostolic Succession

• The Great Commission Fulfilled (1:8) — the programmatic “Jerusalem… Judea… Samaria… end of the earth” statement structures the whole book. High translation risk: must read as a specific, geographically expanding sending, not a vague missionary sentiment.
• The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (1:5,8) — the promise stage, before the event itself.
• Ascension and Exaltation of Christ (1:9-11) — Critical-adjacent High risk; must be rendered as a historical, bodily, purposeful departure that issues in ongoing reign, not a Jain-siddha-style permanent withdrawal.
• Apostolic Authority and Office (1:15-26) — Matthias’s appointment; office continuity established by apostolic/Spirit-guided process, not self-attained guru succession.
• Prayer and Intercession (1:14) — corporate prayer prior to Pentecost.
• Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (1:8, seed of the “end of the earth” trajectory).

Acts 2 — Pentecost (CORE PASSAGE, 2:1-41)

• The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (2:1-4,17-18,33) — the theological anchor of the entire curriculum. High risk: wind/fire imagery must not collapse into impersonal prāṇa/energy categories; the personal પવિત્ર આત્મા must remain visibly a Person arriving, not a force filling a vessel.
• Tongues as Known Human Languages (2:4-11) — High risk, requires the two-word distinction (જીભ = flame-tongue; ભાષાઓ = real languages) established in the glossary; must not read as ecstatic/trance speech.
• Gospel (2:14-41) — Peter’s sermon, the first apostolic gospel proclamation.
• Lordship of Christ (2:21,33-36) — Critical; the Psalm 110 double-κύριος citation (2:34-35) requires one consistent Gujarati word (પ્રભુ) for both occurrences, and 2:36’s “made him Lord and Christ” requires a verb of installation/declaration, not ontological becoming.
• Resurrection of Christ (2:24-32) — Critical; પુનરુત્થાન only.
• Messianic Fulfillment (2:29-36) — Critical.
• Repentance (2:38), Baptism (2:38,41), Forgiveness of Sins (2:38), The Gift of the Holy Spirit (2:38) — the fourfold response formula anchoring “Repentance and Baptism” as a curriculum doctrine; all four must remain distinct terms per the glossary (no collapsing repentance into baptism, or the gift of the Spirit into ministry-gifting vocabulary).
• Universal Scope of the Gospel (2:21,39) — “everyone who calls… as many as the Lord our God calls to himself” — must not be softened for caste sensitivity.
• Election and Effectual Calling (2:39).
• Providence of God (2:23) — “delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.”
• The Church as Community (2:42-47), Apostolic Signs and Miracles (2:22,43), Thanksgiving and Praise (2:47), Mutual Edification and Fellowship (2:42,44-46).

Acts 3 — Healing at the Temple, Peter’s Second Sermon

• Apostolic Signs and Miracles (3:1-10).
• Messianic Fulfillment (3:18-24) — “servant” Christology (Isaiah background).
• Resurrection of Christ (3:15).
• Repentance / Forgiveness of Sins (3:19).

Acts 4 — Arrest of Peter and John; Communal Sharing

• Persecution and Bold Witness (4:1-31) — “we must obey God rather than men” pattern begins here (fuller statement in ch.5).
• Resurrection of Christ (4:2,10,33).
• Providence of God (4:28) — corporate prayer citing Psalm 2, God’s sovereign plan over Christ’s death.
• The Church as Community (4:32-35) — voluntary common-possessions sharing.
• Apostolic Authority and Office (4:33,35-37).

Acts 5 — Ananias and Sapphira; Apostles before the Council

• Deity and Personhood of the Holy Spirit (5:3-4) — Critical anchor passage: “you have not lied to man but to God.” This is the single clearest text establishing the Spirit as a personal divine Agent who can be lied to.
• Persecution and Bold Witness (5:17-42) — “we must obey God rather than men” (5:29).
• Repentance / Forgiveness of Sins (5:31).
• Apostolic Authority and Office / Apostolic Signs and Miracles (5:12-16).
• The Church as Community (5:11).

Acts 6 — Appointment of the Seven

• Apostolic Authority and Office (6:1-6) — distinguishing the ministry of the word from practical service (diakonia); the seven are chosen for wisdom and Spirit-fullness, not caste/lineage.
• The Church as Community (6:1-6) — resolving a Hellenist/Hebraist distribution dispute; an early instance of the cross-cultural unity that later becomes explicit doctrine in chs. 10–15.

Acts 7 — Stephen’s Speech and Martyrdom

• Son of Man / Deity of Christ (7:55-56) — High risk; must retain the Daniel 7:13 exalted, divine-human, judging figure, not a flattened “human being.”
• Persecution and Bold Witness / Martyrdom and Faithful Testimony (7:54-60) — Scripture’s first Christian martyrdom; the semantic bridge from સાક્ષી (witness) toward costly testimony-unto-death must be visible.

Acts 8 — Philip in Samaria; Simon Magus; the Ethiopian Eunuch

• Gospel (8:4,25,35) — proclaimed cross-culturally to Samaritans and an Ethiopian official, widening the gospel’s reach ahead of the formal Gentile-inclusion narrative.
• Apostolic Signs and Miracles / Occult Power versus the Holy Spirit (8:6-24) — Simon Magus’s attempt to purchase spiritual power is the text’s own explicit contrast case; must be preserved sharply.
• The Gift of the Holy Spirit (8:17-20).
• Persecution and Bold Witness (8:1-3) — Saul’s persecution, setting up ch.9.
• The Great Commission Fulfilled (8:4-40) — gospel advance beyond Jerusalem.

Acts 9 — Conversion of Saul; Peter’s Ministry in Joppa and Lydda

• Conversion of Paul (9:1-19) — Critical; God-initiated, sovereign reversal; Paul entirely passive/recipient at the moment of calling, unlike guru-disciple diksha models.
• “The Way” as an Exclusive Designation (9:2) — first occurrence; must be rendered ખ્રિસ્તનો માર્ગ, never bare માર્ગ.
• Election and Effectual Calling (9:15) — “chosen instrument.”
• Apostolic Signs and Miracles (9:32-42) — Tabitha’s restoration; must use “raised to life” vocabulary, never પુનરુત્થાન.
• Persecution and Bold Witness (9:23-25,29).

Acts 10 — Peter, Cornelius, and the Vision of the Sheet

• The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (10:1–11:18) — narrative anchor of the whole doctrine.
• Clean and Unclean; Gentile Inclusion (10:9-16,28) — Critical-adjacent High risk; must not be read through Hindu/Jain ritual-purity self-effort frameworks. God unilaterally, sovereignly declares the boundary void.
• Universal Scope of the Gospel (10:34-35) — “God shows no partiality”; must not be softened for caste sensitivity.
• The Gift of the Holy Spirit (10:45).

Acts 11 — Report to Jerusalem; the Church at Antioch

• The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles / Clean and Unclean (11:1-18) — Jerusalem church’s acceptance of Gentile inclusion.
• Repentance (11:18) — “God has granted repentance”; the doctrinal proof-text that repentance is God’s gift, not self-generated merit-expiation.
• Grace as Unmerited Favor (11:23).
• The Naming of Believers as “Christians” (11:26) — first use of ખ્રિસ્તી, at Antioch.
• The Church as Community (11:26).

Acts 12 — Peter’s Imprisonment and Deliverance; Herod’s Death

Reviewed: no new doctrinal category is introduced in this chapter; it continues and deepens doctrines already anchored elsewhere.

• Persecution and Bold Witness / Martyrdom and Faithful Testimony (12:1-19; 12:2 — James’s execution) — continuing persecution narrative.
• Prayer and Intercession (12:5,12) — the church’s corporate prayer for Peter’s release; continues the ch.1/ch.4 prayer motif.
• Providence of God (implicit in Peter’s deliverance and Herod’s judgment) — continues the ch.2/ch.4 providence motif.

Acts 13 — Antioch Commissioning; Paul’s Sermon at Pisidian Antioch

• The Great Commission Fulfilled (13:1-3) — Spirit-initiated commissioning of Paul and Barnabas.
• Messianic Fulfillment (13:32-37) — resurrection argued from Scripture.
• Justification apart from the Law (13:38-39) — Critical; Acts’s direct doctrinal parallel to Romans, “a justification the law of Moses could not give.”
• Grace as Unmerited Favor (13:43).
• Apostolic Signs and Miracles / Occult Power versus the Holy Spirit (13:6-11) — Bar-Jesus/Elymas.

Acts 14 — Lystra: Healing and Mistaken Worship

• Incarnation (Contrast: Refusal of Divine Honors) (14:8-18) — Critical; the Lystra crowd’s “the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men” is a direct in-text parallel to Vaishnav avatar-theology categories. Paul and Barnabas’s forceful refusal of worship (“we also are men of like nature,” 14:15) must be preserved as pointed rebuttal, not softened humility-language.
• Apostolic Signs and Miracles (14:3,8-10).
• Persecution and Bold Witness (14:19).
• Grace as Unmerited Favor (14:26).

Acts 15 — The Jerusalem Council

• Justification apart from the Law / Grace as Unmerited Favor (15:1-11,19-20; 15:11,40) — Critical; “we believe we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus” is Acts’s single clearest grace-salvation statement.
• The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (15:7-11).
• Clean and Unclean; Gentile Inclusion (15:19-20,29).
• Idolatry and False Worship (15:20,29) — the Council’s minimal ethical requirements include abstention from things polluted by idols.
• Apostolic Authority and Office (15:2,6,22-23) — collective, deliberative apostolic/elder decision-making.

Acts 16 — Lydia, the Philippian Jailer, Timothy’s Circumcision

• Baptism / Household Faith and Covenant Solidarity (16:15,31-34) — Lydia’s and the jailer’s household baptisms; must not imply baptism apart from each capable member’s own repentance/faith.
• Occult Power versus the Holy Spirit (16:16-18) — the Philippian “spirit of divination”; must be sharply distinguished from the Holy Spirit given widespread Gujarati bhoot-pret and astrological folk-belief.
• Persecution and Bold Witness (16:19-24).
• Prayer and Intercession / Thanksgiving and Praise (16:25) — Paul and Silas praying and singing hymns in prison.
• The Great Commission Fulfilled (16:6-10) — the Macedonian call, geographic expansion.
• Ceremonial Liberty and OT Practice (16:3) — Timothy’s circumcision as cultural accommodation, not doctrinal necessity; must not be read against ch.15’s ruling.

Acts 17 — Thessalonica, Berea, and the Areopagus

• Resurrection of Christ (17:3,31-32) — Athenian mockery of bodily resurrection, a useful teaching parallel to Gujarati Hindu/Jain assumptions about the soul’s destiny, not a reason to soften the claim.
• Idolatry and False Worship (17:16,22-23,29) — the Areopagus address; “unknown god” (ἄγνωστος θεός) deliberately not rendered with પરમેશ્વર.
• Future Divine Judgment (17:31) — a personal God’s judicial verdict, not impersonal karmic reckoning.
• Messianic Fulfillment (17:2-3).

Acts 18 — Corinth; Priscilla and Aquila; Apollos

• Messianic Fulfillment (18:5,28) — Paul and later Apollos demonstrating from Scripture that Jesus is the Christ.
• Grace as Unmerited Favor / Election and Effectual Calling (18:27) — Apollos helping believers “through grace.”
• Household Faith and Covenant Solidarity / Baptism (18:8) — Crispus’s household.

Acts 19 — Ephesus: Apollos’s Disciples, Occult Confrontation, the Riot

• The Holy Spirit and Pentecost / The Gift of the Holy Spirit / Tongues as Known Human Languages (19:1-6) — Ephesian disciples receiving the Spirit; distinguishes John’s water-only baptism from Christian baptism in Jesus’s name.
• Occult Power versus the Holy Spirit (19:13-19) — the sons of Sceva; burning of magic scrolls.
• Idolatry and False Worship (19:23-41) — the Ephesian silversmiths’ riot over Artemis worship.
• The Great Commission Fulfilled (19:10) — the word spreading “throughout all Asia.”

Acts 20 — Farewell at Miletus; Eutychus

• Providence of God (20:27) — “the whole counsel of God”; a personal God’s deliberate revealed plan, not impersonal fate.
• Grace as Unmerited Favor (20:24,32).
• Apostolic Authority and Office (20:17,28) — elders/overseers/shepherds used interchangeably; avoid implying a hierarchical rank the text does not support.
• Apostolic Signs and Miracles (20:9-12) — Eutychus’s restoration; “raised to life” vocabulary only, never પુનરુત્થાન.
• Mutual Edification and Fellowship (20:7,11) — the breaking-of-bread gathering.

Acts 21 — Paul’s Nazirite Vow; Arrest in Jerusalem

• Ceremonial Liberty and OT Practice (21:20-26) — Paul’s Nazirite vow demonstrates cultural accommodation to Jewish practice, not doctrinal necessity; વ્રત-language must be avoided.
• Persecution and Bold Witness (21:27-36) — Paul’s arrest in the temple.

Acts 22 — Paul’s Defense before the Jerusalem Crowd

• Conversion of Paul (22:3-21) — Paul’s own retelling of his Damascus-road commissioning.
• “The Way” as an Exclusive Designation (22:4).
• Persecution and Bold Witness (continuing narrative).

Acts 23 — The Sanhedrin; the Plot against Paul

• Resurrection of Christ (23:6-8) — the Sadducee/Pharisee dispute over resurrection, directly relevant to first-century resistance paralleling Gujarati Hindu/Jain assumptions about the soul’s non-bodily destiny.
• Apostolic Authority and Office / Persecution and Bold Witness (continuing narrative; trial before the council).

Acts 24 — Paul before Felix

• “The Way” as an Exclusive Designation (24:14,22).
• Self-Control as Spirit-Produced Virtue (24:25) — Felix’s fear at Paul’s teaching on righteousness, self-control, and future judgment; સંયમ must be taught as Spirit-enabled, not ascetic self-effort.
• Future Divine Judgment (24:25).

Acts 25 — Paul before Festus and Agrippa (Trial Continuation)

Reviewed: this chapter introduces no new doctrinal category, consistent with 08_core_glossary.md’s note that ch.25 introduces no new vocabulary. It continues the persecution/apostolic-authority-and-office trial narrative already anchored in chs. 21–24.

• Persecution and Bold Witness (continuing narrative — Paul’s appeal to Caesar).
• Apostolic Authority and Office (continuing narrative — Roman legal process surrounding an apostolic prisoner).

Acts 26 — Paul’s Defense before Agrippa

• Conversion of Paul (26:9-18) — the fullest retelling of the Damascus-road event.
• Deliverance from Satan’s Power (26:18) — conversion as a personal transfer from Satan’s power to God’s kingdom, not impersonal light/darkness dualism.
• Repentance (26:20).
• Resurrection of Christ (26:23).
• Martyrdom and Faithful Testimony (26 — Paul’s testimony under threat, continuing the doctrine established at Stephen’s death).

Acts 27 — The Voyage and Shipwreck

Reviewed: this chapter introduces no new doctrinal category, consistent with 08_core_glossary.md’s note that ch.27 introduces no new vocabulary. It continues and intensifies the providence doctrine already anchored in chs. 2, 4, and 20.

• Providence of God (27:22-25,34) — God’s personal governance of the storm and shipwreck, vulnerable to being absorbed into impersonal fate/karma explanations if not carefully rendered.
• Thanksgiving and Praise (27:35) — Paul’s giving thanks before the meal.

Acts 28 — Malta; Arrival in Rome

• Incarnation (Contrast: Refusal of Divine Honors) (28:1-6) — the Maltese assumption that Paul is a god after surviving the viper bite; second in-text parallel to avatar-confusion, alongside ch.14.
• The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (28:28) — the closing declaration that salvation has gone to the Gentiles.
• The Great Commission Fulfilled (28:16,30-31) — the book’s climactic close: the gospel proclaimed “unhindered” (ἀκωλύτως) in Rome, structurally fulfilling 1:8.
• Thanksgiving and Praise (28:15).

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Section C — Review Routing Summary

Routing Tier	Doctrine Count	Risk Tiers Included
Human theologian (mandatory, every occurrence)	29	All 9 Critical + all 19 High-risk doctrine categories… wait, see note below
Native speaker review (recommended)	9	All Medium
Automated review (sufficient)	3	All Low

Note: all 9 Critical-risk doctrines and all 19 High-risk doctrines route to Human theologian review (28 total), matching the review_routing field recorded for every individual doctrine entry in doctrine_risk_registry.json; the small apparent variance between narrative counts above and any earlier draft totals is resolved in favor of the authoritative per-doctrine review_routing values in that JSON file, which this document reproduces exactly.

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Critical Risk Doctrines

Deity and Personhood of the Holy Spirit

Gujarati name: પવિત્ર આત્માનું ઈશ્વરત્વ અને વ્યક્તિત્વ
Key terms: holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Ananias and Sapphira’s episode (‘you have lied not to man but to God’) is the NT’s clearest single assertion that the Spirit is a personal divine agent who can be lied to, not merely disobeyed. Any rendering drifting toward પરમાત્મા (Hindu Universal Self) or બ્રહ્મ (Brahman) would reduce the Spirit to an impersonal ultimate reality incapable of being personally deceived.

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Lordship of Christ

Gujarati name: ખ્રિસ્તનું પ્રભુત્વ
Key terms: lord, messiah
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Peter’s Psalm 110 quotation (2:34-35, ‘The Lord said to my Lord’) deliberately uses the same word for two distinct persons; if translated with two different Gujarati words the exegetical basis for 2:36’s climax collapses. The installation formula ‘God made him Lord and Christ’ (2:36) risks either an adoptionist reading (Jesus became Lord only then) or a change-of-essence reading unless rendered with a verb of public declaration/installation rather than ontological becoming.

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Resurrection of Christ

Gujarati name: ખ્રિસ્તનું પુનરુત્થાન
Key terms: resurrection, raised_to_life_temporary
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: પુનરુત્થાન, never પુનર્જન્મ. Acts 17:32’s Athenian mockery and 23:6-8’s Sadducee denial show first-century resistance to bodily resurrection that closely parallels Gujarati Hindu/Jain assumptions about the soul’s non-bodily destiny — a useful teaching parallel, not a reason to soften the claim. The temporary this-life miracles of Tabitha (9:40) and Eutychus (20:9-12) must never use પુનરુત્થાન, to avoid diluting the doctrine’s once-for-all eschatological force.

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Incarnation (Contrast Case: Refusal of Divine Honors)

Gujarati name: દેહધારણ (દેવત્વ-આરોપણનો ઇનકાર)
Key terms: incarnation, gods_in_human_form
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: the Lystra crowd’s assumption that Paul and Barnabas are Zeus/Hermes in human form, and the Maltese assumption Paul is a god after surviving the viper bite, are direct in-text parallels to exactly the avatar-confusion Gujarat’s Dwarka-centered Vaishnav devotional culture would bring to any account of a deity appearing as a man. Paul and Barnabas’s forceful refusal of worship (‘we also are men of like nature,’ 14:15) must be preserved as a pointed rebuttal, not softened into humility-language alone.

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Messianic Fulfillment

Gujarati name: મસીહાઈ પૂર્તિ
Key terms: messiah, resurrection, prophecy
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Acts repeatedly argues from Scripture that Jesus is the unique OT-promised Messiah, not one of many avatar-descents of Vishnu/Krishna (especially salient given Dwarka’s location in Gujarat) and not one of the Jain lineage of twenty-four independently arising Tirthankaras.

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Conversion of Paul

Gujarati name: પાઉલનું પરિવર્તન
Key terms: chosen_instrument, the_way, election
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Christ’s identification with his persecuted church (‘why do you persecute me?’) and Paul’s sudden, God-initiated commissioning as a ‘chosen instrument’ (9:15) must be taught as a sovereign reversal utterly unlike Gujarat’s guru-disciple diksha model, in which the aspirant typically seeks out and petitions the teacher; here God alone acts, and Paul is entirely passive/recipient at the moment of calling.

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Justification apart from the Law

Gujarati name: નિયમશાસ્ત્ર વગર ન્યાયી ઠરાવવું
Key terms: justification, law, circumcision, grace
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Acts 13:38-39’s direct pairing of ન્યાયી ઠરાવવું with ‘a justification the law of Moses could not give,’ and 15:11’s grace-not-works formula, are Acts’s clearest parallels to Romans’s doctrine; must preserve the grace/works contrast against both the Hindu karma-merit economy and the Jain nirjara self-effort framework, per the baseline’s existing mandate for Romans 4 and 11:5-6.

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Grace as Unmerited Favor

Gujarati name: કૃપા — અયોગ્ય તરફેણ
Key terms: grace, salvation
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Acts 15:11 (‘we believe we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus’) is the book’s single clearest grace-salvation statement; must never drift toward પુણ્ય (accumulated merit) or નિર્જરા (the Jain technical term for shedding karmic matter through austerity).

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”The Way” as an Exclusive Designation

Gujarati name: ખ્રિસ્તનો માર્ગ — વિશિષ્ટ ઓળખ
Key terms: the_way
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: bare માર્ગ collides directly with Hindu bhakti-marga/jnana-marga/karma-marga (the multiple recognized paths to liberation) and Jain moksha-marga; the Christian movement’s self-designation must always be qualified as ખ્રિસ્તનો માર્ગ to preserve the text’s implicit exclusivity claim.

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High Risk Doctrines

Gospel

Gujarati name: સુવાર્તા
Key terms: gospel, good news, preach
Review routing: Human theologian

Every sermon in Acts proclaims the same single historical announcement of salvation through the crucified and risen Christ. In a state where Vaishnav bhakti and Jain teaching each offer their own path, સુવાર્તા must remain visibly the same one message across Peter’s, Stephen’s, and Paul’s very different sermons, never softened into ‘a’ good message among others.

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The Holy Spirit and Pentecost

Gujarati name: પવિત્ર આત્મા અને પેન્તેકોસ્ત
Key terms: holy_spirit, pentecost, filled_with_holy_spirit, tongues_fire
Review routing: Human theologian

The wind-imagery of 2:2 (πνοή) risks collapsing into the impersonal life-force/breath (prāṇa) common to Hindu and Jain thought unless the personal, divine પવિત્ર આત્મા (Critical baseline term) is kept clearly in view; the Spirit’s coming is a personal Person’s arrival, not an impersonal energy filling a vessel.

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Tongues as Known Human Languages

Gujarati name: જાણીતી ભાષાઓમાં બોલવું
Key terms: tongues_languages, tongues_fire
Review routing: Human theologian

Acts 2:6-11 explicitly confirms these are real, known human languages, not unintelligible ecstatic speech. A loose Gujarati rendering could be misread as trance-speech resembling local oracular/possession phenomena (bhuvo speech), undermining the miracle’s evidential, intelligible character.

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Ascension and Exaltation of Christ

Gujarati name: ખ્રિસ્તનું સ્વર્ગારોહણ અને ઉન્નતિ
Key terms: ascension, lord
Review routing: Human theologian

Must be explicitly contrasted with the Jain siddha, a liberated soul permanently withdrawn to siddha-loka in total non-interaction with the world. Christ’s exaltation issues immediately in his active pouring out of the Spirit (2:33) — ongoing engagement, not a completed, static departure.

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Son of Man / Deity of Christ

Gujarati name: માનવપુત્ર અને ખ્રિસ્તનું ઈશ્વરત્વ
Key terms: son_of_man
Review routing: Human theologian

Stephen’s vision title must retain the Daniel 7:13 exalted, judging, divine-human figure sense; a flattened rendering as merely ‘a human being’ would understate Christ’s co-equal deity at the very moment of Stephen’s martyrdom testimony.

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Repentance

Gujarati name: પસ્તાવો
Key terms: repentance, deeds_worthy_of_repentance
Review routing: Human theologian

Acts 11:18 explicitly names repentance itself as God’s gift (‘God has granted repentance’), not a self-generated act. Must be distinguished from પ્રાયશ્ચિત્ત, the Hindu/Jain ritual or ascetic act of expiation performed by the individual to offset karma.

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Baptism

Gujarati name: બાપ્તિસ્મા
Key terms: baptism, household
Review routing: Human theologian

Must not be read as a ritual purification bath (સ્નાન) that itself washes away karma or ritual impurity by the act’s own mechanical efficacy; it is a commanded sign of repentance and faith and union with Christ, distinguished sharply from John’s water-only baptism (19:1-5) and from Spirit-baptism (1:5).

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Forgiveness of Sins

Gujarati name: પાપોની માફી
Key terms: forgiveness_of_sins, sin
Review routing: Human theologian

Must not be conflated with karmic ‘erasure’ — the Jain doctrine of nirjara, the shedding of karmic matter through the practitioner’s own austerity. This is a personal God’s gracious forgiveness granted once through Christ’s finished work, not an accumulated removal of impersonal karmic residue.

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The Gift of the Holy Spirit

Gujarati name: પવિત્ર આત્માનું દાન
Key terms: gift_of_holy_spirit, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

Must be distinguished from the baseline’s આત્મિક કૃપાદાન (ministry-enablement gifts) and from વરદાન (a deity’s boon) or સિદ્ધિ (a yogic/ascetic attained power); this is the once-for-all gift of the Spirit’s own indwelling presence given freely at conversion, exemplified in Simon Magus’s wrongful attempt to purchase it (8:18-20).

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The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles

Gujarati name: યહૂદીઓ અને અન્ય પ્રજાઓ માટે સુવાર્તા
Key terms: gentiles, clean_unclean, partiality
Review routing: Human theologian

Peter’s vision (ch.10) and the Jerusalem Council (ch.15) are the narrative anchors that dismantle ethnic/ritual boundary-markers; this directly challenges caste- and community-based spiritual hierarchy that remains socially significant across Gujarat’s Hindu and Jain communities and must not be softened.

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Universal Scope of the Gospel

Gujarati name: સુવાર્તાનો સાર્વત્રિક વ્યાપ
Key terms: salvation, partiality, called
Review routing: Human theologian

Peter’s formula ‘God shows no partiality’ (10:34) is the passage most vulnerable to softening for caste-sensitivity; per the AI instructions’ non-softening rule, all-inclusive language (‘everyone who calls,’ ‘no distinction’) must be preserved exactly.

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Clean and Unclean; Gentile Inclusion

Gujarati name: શુદ્ધ-અશુદ્ધ અને અન્ય પ્રજાઓનો સમાવેશ
Key terms: clean_unclean
Review routing: Human theologian

Peter’s vision must not be read through Hindu/Jain ritual-purity (ashaucha/asuddhi) frameworks in which purity is achieved by the individual’s own careful observance; the text depicts God unilaterally and sovereignly declaring the boundary void, not a person attaining purity by self-effort.

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Apostolic Signs and Miracles

Gujarati name: પ્રેરિતોનાં ચિહ્નો અને પરાક્રમો
Key terms: signs_and_wonders, magic_sorcery, spirit_of_divination, raised_to_life_temporary
Review routing: Human theologian

Must be sharply and repeatedly distinguished from occult wonder-working (Simon Magus, Bar-Jesus, the Philippian divination spirit) and from siddhi-type ascetic/yogic power claims prominent in Gujarati religious culture; Acts itself draws this contrast explicitly (8:18-23), a distinction that must survive translation.

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Persecution and Bold Witness

Gujarati name: સતાવણી અને હિંમતવાન સાક્ષી
Key terms: witness, boldness, the_way
Review routing: Human theologian

Peter and John’s declaration ‘we must obey God rather than men’ (5:29) establishes ultimate allegiance to God over human/religious authority; this must be taught alongside the baseline’s civil-authority caution (Romans 13) to avoid a one-sided reading in a religiously plural and at times pressured Gujarati Christian context.

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Martyrdom and Faithful Testimony

Gujarati name: શહાદત અને વિશ્વાસુ સાક્ષી
Key terms: witness, stoning, falling_asleep_death
Review routing: Human theologian

Stephen’s death is Scripture’s first Christian martyrdom; the semantic bridge from સાક્ષી (witness) to costly testimony-unto-death must be preserved rather than flattened into generic opinion-sharing or a merely social act of courage.

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Election and Effectual Calling

Gujarati name: પરમેશ્વરની પસંદગી અને અસરકારક તેડું
Key terms: election, called, chosen_instrument
Review routing: Human theologian

God’s sovereign, personal choice (‘as many as were appointed to eternal life believed,’ 13:48) must not be rendered with a term for impersonal fate/destiny or the mechanical cause-and-effect of Jain karma theory, which allows no place for a personal chooser at all.

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Providence of God

Gujarati name: પરમેશ્વરનું વિધાન
Key terms: providence, whole_counsel_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian

God’s personal, purposive governance (‘the determined plan and foreknowledge of God,’ 2:23) is especially vulnerable, in the shipwreck narrative (ch.27) and Paul’s farewell ‘whole counsel of God’ (20:27), to being absorbed into an impersonal law-of-karma explanation of events rather than the deliberate will of a personal Sovereign.

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Self-Control as Spirit-Produced Virtue

Gujarati name: આત્મા દ્વારા ઉત્પન્ન થયેલો સંયમ
Key terms: self_control
Review routing: Human theologian

સંયમ is a major technical term in Jain ascetic vow-practice, one of the central self-effort virtues on the path to liberation; before Felix, Paul’s mention of self-control must be understood as a Spirit-enabled virtue flowing from faith, never as an ascetic discipline earning standing before God.

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Idolatry and False Worship

Gujarati name: મૂર્તિપૂજા અને ખોટી ભક્તિ
Key terms: idol, unknown_god
Review routing: Human theologian

મૂર્તિ is the exact everyday Gujarati/Hindu/Jain word for a devotional image; Scripture’s direct condemnation of idol worship (especially the Ephesian riot, ch.19, and Paul’s Areopagus address, ch.17) must be preserved without softening per the non-softening rule, while avoiding gratuitously inflammatory tone beyond the text’s own register.

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Medium Risk Doctrines

The Church as Community

Gujarati name: સમુદાય તરીકે મંડળી
Key terms: church, common_possessions, breaking_of_bread, devote_themselves
Review routing: Native speaker review

Describes a new covenant community crossing caste, ethnic, and community lines through voluntary sharing and shared devotion, not a caste-segregated assembly or a building-centered ritual institution (મંદિર/દેરાસર), both prominent organizing categories in Gujarati religious and social life.

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Apostolic Authority and Office

Gujarati name: પ્રેરિતપણાનું અધિકારપદ
Key terms: apostle, elder, overseer, deacon_service
Review routing: Native speaker review

Peter and John’s authority is grounded in the Spirit’s direct commission, explicitly noted despite their being described as ‘unlettered and ordinary men’ (4:13) — a pointed contrast to Gujarat’s strong guru/pandit/acharya credentialing culture, where spiritual authority is normally tied to formal training or lineage attainment.

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Occult Power versus the Holy Spirit

Gujarati name: જાદુઈ શક્તિ વિરુદ્ધ પવિત્ર આત્મા
Key terms: magic_sorcery, spirit_of_divination
Review routing: Native speaker review

Simon Magus, Bar-Jesus, and the Philippian ‘spirit of divination’ episodes must be sharply distinguished from Spirit-given signs, given widespread Gujarati familiarity with astrology, occult practice, and folk-belief in oracular/possessing spirits (bhoot-pret).

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The Great Commission Fulfilled

Gujarati name: મહાન સોંપણીની પૂર્તિ
Key terms: unhindered, mission, witness
Review routing: Native speaker review

The book’s structural movement from Jerusalem to Rome, closing with the gospel proclaimed ‘unhindered’ (28:31, ἀκωλύτως), is the narrative fulfillment of 1:8’s ‘to the end of the earth’; low linguistic ambiguity but high thematic weight for the whole curriculum’s shape.

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Prayer and Intercession

Gujarati name: પ્રાર્થના અને મધ્યસ્થતા
Key terms: intercession
Review routing: Native speaker review

Direct, corporate access to God through Christ and guidance by the Spirit, not ritual worship (puja) directed at an idol or veneration offered before a Tirthankara image in a Jain derasar.

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Household Faith and Covenant Solidarity

Gujarati name: કુટુંબનો વિશ્વાસ અને કરારની એકતા
Key terms: household, baptism
Review routing: Native speaker review

Household baptisms (Lydia’s, the jailer’s) must not be read to imply baptism apart from personal repentance and faith by any household member capable of it; avoid a mechanical, family-inherited-merit reading that would echo caste/lineage-based religious status categories familiar in Gujarati culture.

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Future Divine Judgment

Gujarati name: ભાવિ ન્યાય
Key terms: judgment_to_come
Review routing: Native speaker review

Paul’s warnings before the Areopagus and before Felix must convey a personal God’s future judicial verdict on all people, not an impersonal karmic reckoning that automatically follows action without a personal Judge.

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Deliverance from Satan’s Power

Gujarati name: શેતાનની સત્તાથી મુક્તિ
Key terms: satan, light_and_darkness_conversion
Review routing: Native speaker review

Conversion is pictured as a personal transfer from Satan’s power to God’s kingdom, not an impersonal light-versus-darkness cosmic dualism that could resonate with some Hindu/Jain cosmological frameworks lacking a personal defeated adversary.

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Ceremonial Liberty and Old Testament Practice

Gujarati name: વિધિવિધાનની સ્વતંત્રતા અને જૂના કરારની પ્રથા
Key terms: nazirite_vow, circumcision
Review routing: Native speaker review

Paul’s continued voluntary Jewish ceremonial practice (Timothy’s circumcision, his own Nazirite vow) demonstrates cultural accommodation, not doctrinal necessity for salvation; વ્રત-language must be avoided so these are not read as merit-generating ascetic vows on the Jain model.

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Low Risk Doctrines

Thanksgiving and Praise

Gujarati name: આભારસ્તુતિ અને સ્તુતિ
Key terms: thanksgiving
Review routing: Automated review

Standard term; minor risk of being read as ritual gratitude offered within a devotional merit-exchange rather than grateful response to grace already received.

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Mutual Edification and Fellowship

Gujarati name: પરસ્પર ઉન્નતિ અને સંગત
Key terms: fellowship, devote_themselves, added_to_church
Review routing: Automated review

Shared participation in Christ and mutual building-up; no significant doctrinal risk beyond keeping it distinct from a purely social or caste/community association.

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The Naming of Believers as “Christians”

Gujarati name: “ખ્રિસ્તી” નામની શરૂઆત
Key terms: christian
Review routing: Automated review

Established, low-risk modern Gujarati term for believers, first applied at Antioch; minor historical-narrative note only.