Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — 2 Peter (Full-Book Coverage)
This matrix documents every doctrine identified for the 2 Peter curriculum, chapter by chapter, cover to cover (1:1–3:18). Doctrine names, risk tiers, and review routing are held identical to assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (v1) — this document adds the supporting-passage detail and translation-risk rationale that the registry references but does not spell out in full prose. The core passage (1:16-21) is the theological anchor of the curriculum, not its scope boundary; all three chapters are analyzed in full.
Risk tiers follow the baseline definitions:
- Critical — mistranslation destroys essential doctrine; theologian review every occurrence.
- High — mistranslation risks significant confusion or syncretism; theologian review.
- Medium — mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves core meaning; native speaker review.
- Low — minor imprecision risk; automated review sufficient.
Chapter 1 (1:1-21) — Salutation, Virtue, and Apostolic Authority
| # | Doctrine | Supporting Passages (2 Peter) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apostleship of Peter and Paul | 1:1 | Medium | प्रेरित and the दास self-designation must avoid drift toward a generic spiritual-teacher/guru role; both apostles must be named with the same established term. | Native speaker review |
| 2 | Equally Precious Faith and Universal Standing | 1:1 | Medium | बहुमूल्य/समान मूल्य का विश्वास must affirm universal equal standing before God through shared faith, without implying graded spiritual rank (a caste-adjacent risk noted in the baseline). | Native speaker review |
| 3 | Deity and Sonship of Christ | 1:1 (“our God and Savior Jesus Christ”); 1:17 (voice from the Majestic Glory: “This is my beloved Son”) | Critical | उद्धारकर्ता is mandatory over त्राता (avatāra-adjacent rescuer-hero resonance); the single-clause deity ascription in 1:1 and the Father’s voice in 1:17 are among the NT’s clearest identity statements and must not be softened to “a divine person” or “a great teacher.” | Human theologian |
| 4 | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:3-11 (the virtue chain: faith → virtue → knowledge → self-control → steadfastness → godliness → brotherly kindness → love) | High | सद्गुण must never appear bare as गुण (Sāṅkhya/Vedānta triguṇa collision); ज्ञान collides with jñāna-mārga; the chain must read as Spirit-enabled growth in a relationship, not a self-attained ladder of merits. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1:3-4 (divine power; partakers of the divine nature; escape corruption caused by desire) | Critical | ईश्वरीय स्वभाव is the single highest Hindu-philosophical collision term in the book. Forbidden: तत्व/ईश्वर-तत्व (Advaita ātman=Brahman identity) and प्रकृति (Sāṅkhya cosmic-nature merger). Believers share God’s moral character and immortal life by grace and union with Christ; they do not become God or awaken latent inner divinity. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Godliness and Devotion to God | 1:3; 1:6-7 | Critical | भक्ति is established Hindi Bible usage but names the Hindu bhakti-mārga devotional path (loving surrender to a chosen iṣṭa-devatā, one of several valid paths). Every occurrence needs a note: exclusive devotion to the one true God, not an interchangeable devotional option among several. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Assurance through Election and Calling | 1:10 (“be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election”) | High | परमेश्वर का चुनाव / बुलाहट must never drift toward भाग्य/नियति/किस्मत (fate, destiny, karma-determined outcome); assurance rests on God’s personal initiative, confirmed by, not earned through, diligence. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Departure and Bodily Tent Imagery | 1:13-15 (Peter’s approaching death as “putting off this tent”/departure) | Low | डेरा and कूच/देहान्त are euphemistic; the tent-body metaphor must be framed as a temporary dwelling awaiting bodily resurrection, never a soul-vehicle discarded en route to reincarnation. | Automated review |
| 9 | The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture (core doctrine) | 1:16-21 (core passage): not “cleverly devised myths” (1:16); eyewitness testimony (1:16-18); the prophetic word made more sure (1:19); no prophecy of Scripture from one’s own interpretation (1:20); prophets carried along by the Holy Spirit (1:21) | Critical | चालित होकर (φερόμενοι) risks collision with आवेश/आवेशित (possession-trance, where the human personality is displaced); 2 Peter’s model is Spirit-superintended human authors who remain fully themselves. पवित्रशास्त्र must never drop to bare शास्त्र. निजी व्याख्या is exegetically contested (origin vs. interpretation of prophecy) and must be recorded, not resolved unilaterally, in-text. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Apostolic Eyewitness Authority | 1:16-18 (Transfiguration: majesty, voice from heaven, holy mountain) | High | मनगढ़ंत कहानियाँ must not use पुराण (would class the gospel with the Hindu sacred-narrative genre itself). स्वर्ग से आई हुई वाणी must read as one definite historical event, not a recurring mystical inner-voice experience. महाप्रतापमय महिमा is a divine title for the Father, not a generic honorific. | Human theologian |
| 11 | The Certainty of Christ’s Return (introduced) | 1:16 (the power and coming, parousia, of our Lord Jesus Christ, confirmed by Transfiguration as a preview); 1:19 (morning star arising, day dawning) | Critical | आगमन must never be rendered अवतरण (the Hindu avatāra’s periodic, repeatable divine descent), which would reduce Christ’s return to one appearance among many. भोर का तारा requires a note distinguishing the image from Śukra/Venus as a Hindu astrological deity/graha governing fate and auspicious timing. | Human theologian |
Chapter 1 coverage note: every verse block (1:1-2 salutation; 1:3-11 virtue chain; 1:12-15 testamentary purpose; 1:16-21 core passage) is represented above; no sub-section is silently omitted.
Chapter 2 (2:1-22) — False Teachers and Their Judgment
| # | Doctrine | Supporting Passages (2 Peter) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:1-3 (destructive heresies, denying the Master, greed); 2:10-19 (arrogance, blasphemy of glorious ones, licentiousness, bombastic words, enticement) | High | झूठे शिक्षक directly confronts the Indian guru-authority paradigm, where a revered teacher’s claims are rarely subjected to public doctrinal testing; the passage requires exactly this kind of public exposure, creating potential pastoral friction. वैनाशकारी मत and विनाश must retain force of punitive judgment, not merely “wrong opinions.” | Human theologian |
| 13 | Judgment of the Fallen Angels | 2:4 (angels cast into gloomy chains, held for judgment) | Critical | Must avoid both (a) transliterating the pagan mythological place-name Tartarus (would read as endorsing Greek mythology) and (b) the natural Hindi equivalent नरक, which in Hindu cosmology denotes a graded, temporary, karma-calibrated purgatory from which a being is eventually released into rebirth — the opposite of this text’s fixed confinement pending one final judgment. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Historical Examples of Divine Judgment and Deliverance | 2:5 (the flood, Noah preserved); 2:6 (Sodom and Gomorrah); 2:7-9 (Lot rescued; the righteous kept, the unrighteous kept for judgment) | High | जलप्रलय’s प्रलय element resonates with Hindu cosmology’s cyclical mahāpralaya recurring at the close of each kalpa; 2 Peter’s flood is a single, linear, historical, unrepeated judgment, not one cycle among an endless series. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Freedom and Slavery to Corruption | 2:19 (“promising them freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption”) | Critical | स्वतंत्रता and दासत्व/दास must be rendered identically to their Galatians usage or the letter’s central irony collapses. The Galatians-baseline forbidden substitutions मुक्ति/मोक्ष apply with heightened force here, since this verse directly inverts Christ’s genuine gift of freedom into a counterfeit. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Apostasy and the Abandonment of Knowledge | 2:20-22 (having escaped, then entangled again; the dog and sow proverbs) | Critical | ज्ञान again collides with jñāna-mārga, but with heightened stakes: this “knowledge” is portrayed as loseable through relapse, whereas Hindu jñāna, once attained, is typically a permanent liberating realization. The translator note must clarify this relational, loseable character alongside the standard jñāna-collision caution. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Proverbial Warnings against Relapse | 2:22 (dog returns to vomit; washed sow returns to mire) | Low | Established Hindi Proverbs 26:11 tradition renders the dog proverb directly; the companion sow image must remain vivid and not be sanitized, since crudeness is intentional to the warning. | Automated review |
Chapter 2 coverage note: the full false-teacher indictment (2:1-3), angelic and historical judgment exempla (2:4-9), the extended vice catalogue (2:10-19), and the closing relapse warning (2:20-22) are all represented; no sub-section is silently omitted.
Chapter 3 (3:1-18) — The Day of the Lord, Patience, and Closing Charge
| # | Doctrine | Supporting Passages (2 Peter) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | The Certainty of Christ’s Return (developed) | 3:3-4 (scoffers ask, “Where is the promise of his coming?”); 3:9 (the Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise); 3:12 (waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God) | Critical | आगमन/प्रतिज्ञा must retain full certainty despite delay; उपहास करनेवाले must retain active ridicule, not softened to mere “skeptics,” preserving the text’s polemical edge against denial of a fixed future event. | Human theologian |
| 19 | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:7 (heavens and earth reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment); 3:10-12 (the day of the Lord will come like a thief; heavens will pass away, elements dissolved, earth exposed) | High | प्रभु का दिन must be a single, definite, certain, future historical event, not a mythologically cyclically recurring cosmic “day” paralleling the Hindu “day of Brahmā” within an endless kalpa cycle. मूलतत्व collides with Sāṅkhya/Vaiśeṣika tattva philosophy’s eternal, cyclically recurring elemental categories; here the elements are one-time physical constituents dissolved in a single final judgment. चोर (thief) must remain a simile of suddenness only, not a moral equivalence. | Human theologian |
| 20 | Patience of God’s Timing | 3:8-9 (one day as a thousand years; the Lord’s patience, not wishing any to perish); 3:15 (regard the patience of our Lord as salvation) | High | सहनशीलता must not be read as impersonal cosmic delay or fatalistic passivity paralleling frameworks where the world unfolds automatically through impersonal cosmic time-cycles (yugas) irrespective of moral response. God’s patience here is personal, purposeful, and relationally motivated by a desire for repentance, distinct from धीरज (ch. 1’s endurance). | Human theologian |
| 21 | New Heavens and New Earth | 3:13 (waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells) | High | Must be understood as a real, physical, historically situated renewed creation continuous with (not a rejection of) the created physical order, in a single, final, linear consummation — not one recreation-cycle among endless mahāpralaya dissolutions and re-creations, nor a purely non-physical afterlife realm devaluing the created world. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Canon and Authority of Scripture (Including Paul’s Letters) | 3:15-16 (Paul’s letters classed with “the other Scriptures”; some things hard to understand, twisted by the ignorant and unstable, to their own destruction) | Critical | पवित्रशास्त्र must never drop to bare शास्त्र. मोड़-तोड़ करना ties directly to the inspiration-of-scripture doctrine (ch. 1), with real consequences (विनाश) for misuse — must not be softened into a merely academic disagreement over interpretation. | Human theologian |
| 23 | Growth in Grace and Knowledge (Closing Charge) | 3:18 (“grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”) | Critical | The book’s closing verse deliberately reprises its most doctrinally loaded term, ज्ञान; the mandatory jñāna-mārga-collision translator note applies with full force as the final positive charge to readers, paired with अनुग्रह (never कृपा in this construction, per the baseline grace rule). | Human theologian |
Chapter 3 coverage note: the reminder of prophetic and apostolic words (3:1-2), the scoffers’ objection and the flood analogy (3:3-7), the patience/timing argument (3:8-10), the ethical application and new creation hope (3:11-13), Paul’s letters and canon-consciousness (3:14-16), and the closing doxological charge (3:17-18) are all represented; no sub-section is silently omitted.
Full-Book Doctrine Summary Table (Cross-Reference to Registry)
| Doctrine | Chapters Present | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apostleship of Peter and Paul | 1, 3 | Medium | Native speaker |
| Equally Precious Faith and Universal Standing | 1 | Medium | Native speaker |
| Deity and Sonship of Christ | 1 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Growing in Christian Virtue | 1 | High | Human theologian |
| Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Godliness and Devotion to God | 1, 3 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Assurance through Election and Calling | 1 | High | Human theologian |
| Departure and Bodily Tent Imagery | 1 | Low | Automated |
| Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1 (core), 3 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Eyewitness Authority | 1 | High | Human theologian |
| Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1, 3 | Critical | Human theologian |
| False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | High | Human theologian |
| Judgment of the Fallen Angels | 2 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Historical Examples of Divine Judgment and Deliverance | 2 | High | Human theologian |
| Freedom and Slavery to Corruption | 2 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Apostasy and Abandonment of Knowledge | 2 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Proverbial Warnings against Relapse | 2 | Low | Automated |
| The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3 | High | Human theologian |
| Patience of God’s Timing | 3 | High | Human theologian |
| New Heavens and New Earth | 3 | High | Human theologian |
| Canon and Authority of Scripture | 3 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Growth in Grace and Knowledge (Closing Charge) | 3 | Critical | Human theologian |
Totals (matches doctrine_risk_registry.json risk_summary exactly): Critical = 10, High = 8, Medium = 2, Low = 2. Total requiring theologian review = 18. Total requiring native speaker review = 2. Total automated-only = 2.
Cross-Chapter Observations
- ज्ञान (epignōsis/gnōsis) is the single most recurring Critical term across the book’s doctrinal spine, appearing in the virtue chain (1:3,8), the apostasy warning (2:20), and the closing charge (3:18) — three separate doctrines share this one collision term, requiring identical translator-note discipline at each occurrence.
- धार्मिकता (righteousness), though a TM-reuse term rather than a newly registered doctrine here, threads through the historical-judgment doctrine (2:5,7-8) and the new-creation doctrine (3:13), and must remain identical to its Romans/Galatians rendering throughout.
- Chapter 2 is the book’s concentrated collision zone for Hindu cosmological vocabulary (नरक/Tartarus, जलप्रलय/mahāpralaya) rather than the karma/moksha vocabulary dominant in the Romans/Galatians baseline; chapter 3 continues this cosmological-collision pattern (मूलतत्व/tattva, प्रभु का दिन/day of Brahmā).
- The single deliberate reuse of a Critical Galatians term (स्वतंत्रता/दासत्व at 2:19) must be verified against the Galatians Language Package rendering token-for-token before this document’s translations are finalized in Phase 2.
This document is consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json v1 in doctrine names, risk tiers, and review routing. See 08_core_glossary.md for term-level rendering decisions and assets/bible_term_registry.json (pending 2 Peter update) for the full term registry entries.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Hindi name: पवित्रशास्त्र की विश्वसनीयता और प्रेरणा
Key terms: scripture, prophetic_word, carried_along, private_interpretation, more_fully_confirmed, eyewitnesses, cleverly_devised_myths
Review routing: Human theologian
चालित होकर (φερόμενοι, 1:21) risks collision with आवेश/आवेशित, the popular Hindi vocabulary for spirit-possession trance in which the human personality is displaced; 2 Peter’s model is Spirit-superintended human authors who remain fully themselves. पवित्रशास्त्र must never drop to bare शास्त्र, the general Hindu genre-term for authoritative treatises. Mandatory theologian review and translator note at every occurrence.
Deity and Sonship of Christ
Hindi name: मसीह का ईश्वरत्व और पुत्रत्व
Key terms: savior, beloved_son_declaration, lord, majestic_glory, god
Review routing: Human theologian
1:1’s ‘our God and Savior Jesus Christ’ is one of the NT’s clearest single-clause deity-of-Christ statements. उद्धारकर्ता is required over त्राता, which carries mythological hero-rescuer/avatāra resonance — a divine being periodically descending to rescue the world — contradicting the single, unique, unrepeated identity of Christ as Savior.
Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Hindi name: ईश्वरीय स्वभाव में सहभागी होना और भ्रष्टता से बचना
Key terms: divine_nature, corruption, desire, divine_power, promise
Review routing: Human theologian
ईश्वरीय स्वभाव must never be rendered तत्व/ईश्वर-तत्व (implying shared metaphysical essence, resonating with Advaita’s ātman=Brahman identity) or प्रकृति (merging into an impersonal cosmic Nature-principle). Believers participate in God’s moral character and immortal life by grace through union with Christ; they do not become God or discover latent inner divinity.
Godliness and Devotion to God
Hindi name: परमेश्वर के प्रति भक्ति और समर्पण
Key terms: godliness, virtue, knowledge
Review routing: Human theologian
भक्ति (eusebeia) is the established Hindi Bible rendering but names the Hindu bhakti-mārga devotional path of loving surrender to a chosen deity (iṣṭa-devatā), one of several equally valid paths to liberation in popular Hindu theology. Every occurrence requires a translator note asserting exclusive devotion to the one true God, not one interchangeable devotional option.
The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Hindi name: मसीह के आगमन की निश्चितता
Key terms: parousia, morning_star, day_dawns, scoffers, promise
Review routing: Human theologian
आगमन must never be rendered अवतरण, the Hindu avatāra’s periodic, repeatable divine descent, which would imply Christ’s return is one of many divine appearances rather than a single, unrepeatable, climactic event. भोर का तारा requires a note distinguishing the image from Śukra/Venus as a Hindu astrological deity/graha governing fate and auspicious timing.
Judgment of the Fallen Angels
Hindi name: गिरे हुए स्वर्गदूतों का न्याय
Key terms: cast_into_tartarus, chains_of_darkness
Review routing: Human theologian
The rendering must avoid both (a) transliterating the pagan mythological place-name Tartarus, which would read as an endorsement of Greek mythology, and (b) the natural Hindi equivalent नरक, which in Hindu cosmology denotes a graded, temporary, karma-calibrated purgatory from which a being is eventually released into rebirth — the opposite of this text’s picture of fixed confinement pending one final judgment.
Freedom and Slavery to Corruption
Hindi name: स्वतंत्रता का झूठा वादा और भ्रष्टता का दासत्व
Key terms: freedom, slavery, destruction
Review routing: Human theologian
स्वतंत्रता and दासत्व/दास must be rendered identically to their Galatians usage for the letter’s central irony — false teachers promising freedom while being slaves themselves — to register at all. The Galatians-baseline forbidden substitutions मुक्ति/मोक्ष apply here with full, even heightened, force since this verse directly inverts Christ’s genuine gift of freedom.
Apostasy and the Abandonment of Knowledge
Hindi name: विश्वासत्याग और ज्ञान का परित्याग
Key terms: knowledge, cleansing, destruction
Review routing: Human theologian
ज्ञान (epignōsis) again collides with jñāna-mārga’s liberating self-realization, but here with heightened stakes: the passage warns that this ‘knowledge’ can be forfeited through relapse into corruption, whereas Hindu jñāna, once attained, is typically understood as a permanent liberating realization that cannot be lost. The translator note distinguishing relational knowing of a Person from impersonal self-realization must also clarify this loseable, relational character.
Canon and Authority of Scripture (Including Paul’s Letters)
Hindi name: पवित्रशास्त्र का प्रामाणिक संकलन (पौलुस के पत्रों सहित)
Key terms: scripture, twist_distort_scripture, hard_to_understand, untaught_unstable
Review routing: Human theologian
3:16 is an early explicit canon-consciousness statement classing Paul’s letters alongside ‘the other Scriptures.’ पवित्रशास्त्र must never drop to bare शास्त्र. मोड़-तोड़ करना ties directly to the inspiration-of-scripture doctrine, with real consequences (विनाश) for misuse — this must not be softened into a merely academic disagreement over interpretation.
Growth in Grace and Knowledge (Closing Charge)
Hindi name: अनुग्रह और ज्ञान में बढ़ने की अंतिम शिक्षा
Key terms: grow_in_grace_and_knowledge, grace, knowledge
Review routing: Human theologian
The letter’s closing verse deliberately reprises its most doctrinally loaded term, ज्ञान; the mandatory jñāna-mārga-collision translator note applies here with full force as the book’s final positive charge to its readers.
High Risk Doctrines
Apostolic Eyewitness Authority
Hindi name: प्रेरितों की प्रत्यक्षदर्शी गवाही का आधार
Key terms: eyewitnesses, cleverly_devised_myths, majesty, voice_from_heaven, majestic_glory
Review routing: Human theologian
मनगढ़ंत कहानियाँ must not use पुराण, which would name the Hindu sacred-narrative genre itself and imply the gospel is being classed with invented mythology. स्वर्ग से आई हुई वाणी must read as one definite historical event, not a recurring mystical inner-voice experience.
Growing in Christian Virtue
Hindi name: मसीही सद्गुणों में वृद्धि
Key terms: virtue, self_control, steadfastness, brotherly_love, love, faith, knowledge, divine_power
Review routing: Human theologian
सद्गुण (aretē) must never appear as bare गुण, the technical Sāṅkhya/Vedānta term for the three cosmic material qualities (sattva/rajas/tamas); ज्ञान (epignōsis) collides with jñāna-mārga’s liberating self-realization. Both terms require standing translator notes across every occurrence in the virtue chain.
Assurance through Election and Calling
Hindi name: चुनाव और बुलाहट के द्वारा निश्चय
Key terms: election, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the baseline’s caution: परमेश्वर का चुनाव and बुलाहट must never drift toward भाग्य/नियति/किस्मत (fate, destiny, karma-determined outcome); the confirming of calling and election here is grounded in personal divine initiative, not impersonal cosmic mechanism.
False Teachers and Their Judgment
Hindi name: झूठे शिक्षक और उनका न्याय
Key terms: false_teacher, destructive_heresies, destruction, licentiousness, way_of_truth, wages_of_unrighteousness, blaspheme
Review routing: Human theologian
झूठे शिक्षक directly confronts the Indian guru-authority paradigm, in which a revered teacher’s claims are rarely subjected to public doctrinal testing; the passage requires exactly this kind of public exposure and warning, which may create pastoral friction in guru-devoted communities.
Historical Examples of Divine Judgment and Deliverance
Hindi name: परमेश्वर के न्याय और उद्धार के ऐतिहासिक उदाहरण
Key terms: flood_deluge, righteousness, noah, lot, sodom_and_gomorrah
Review routing: Human theologian
जलप्रलय’s प्रलय element resonates with Hindu cosmology’s cyclical cosmic dissolution (mahāpralaya) recurring at the close of each kalpa; 2 Peter’s flood is a single, linear, historical judgment within an unrepeating history, not one recreation-cycle among an endless series.
The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Hindi name: प्रभु का दिन और अन्तिम न्याय
Key terms: day_of_the_lord, day_of_judgment_and_destruction, elements_cosmic, kept_for_fire, thief_simile
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रभु का दिन must be a single, definite, certain, future historical event, not a mythologically cyclically-recurring cosmic ‘day’ paralleling the Hindu ‘day of Brahmā’ within an endless kalpa cycle. मूलतत्व collides with Sāṅkhya/Vaiśeṣika tattva philosophy’s eternal, cyclically-recurring elemental categories; here the elements are one-time physical constituents dissolved in a single final judgment-event.
Patience of God’s Timing
Hindi name: परमेश्वर के समय की सहनशीलता
Key terms: patience_of_god, wishing_none_perish, repentance
Review routing: Human theologian
सहनशीलता must not be read as impersonal cosmic delay or divine indifference/fatalistic passivity, in contrast to frameworks where the world’s unfolding proceeds automatically through impersonal cosmic time-cycles (yugas) irrespective of moral response. God’s patience here is personal, purposeful, and relationally motivated by a desire for repentance.
New Heavens and New Earth
Hindi name: नया आकाश और नई पृथ्वी
Key terms: new_heavens_new_earth, without_spot_blameless, righteousness
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be understood as a real, physical, historically-situated renewed creation continuous with (not a rejection of) the created physical order, and as a single, final, linear consummation — not one recreation-cycle among endless mahāpralaya dissolutions and re-creations, nor a purely non-physical/spiritual afterlife realm that devalues the created physical world.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship of Peter and Paul
Hindi name: पतरस और पौलुस का प्रेरितत्व
Key terms: apostle, servant_self_designation, paul
Review routing: Native speaker review
प्रेरित and दास (self-designation) must avoid drift toward a generic spiritual-teacher/guru role; risk is moderate since प्रेरित is already an established Hindi Christian term with low ambiguity beyond consistency across the two apostles named.
Equally Precious Faith and Universal Standing
Hindi name: समान मूल्य के विश्वास में समानता
Key terms: equally_precious_faith, faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
बहुमूल्य/समान मूल्य का विश्वास affirms universal equal standing before God through shared faith; moderate risk lies mainly in maintaining natural Hindi phrasing rather than doctrinal collision.
Low Risk Doctrines
Proverbial Warnings against Relapse
Hindi name: पुनःपतन के विरुद्ध दृष्टान्त-चेतावनी
Key terms: dog_proverb, sow_proverb
Review routing: Automated review
Low collision risk; the established Hindi Proverbs 26:11 tradition and a companion image render the proverbs directly. Must not be softened or sanitized, since the vividness is intentional to the warning.
Departure and Bodily Tent Imagery
Hindi name: शरीर रूपी डेरे से कूच
Key terms: tent_body, departure
Review routing: Automated review
Low collision risk; डेरा and कूच/देहान्त are euphemistic and metaphorical, requiring only that the tent-body metaphor be framed as a temporary dwelling awaiting bodily resurrection, not a soul-vehicle discarded en route to reincarnation.
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