Executive Summary

Why it matters

Galatians is Paul’s sharpest defense of justification by faith alone, written against Judaizing teachers insisting Gentile believers keep the Mosaic law. For a Hindi-speaking audience, its central tension — freedom vs. law-keeping — maps onto a different risk than Romans’ karma/grace contrast: here the danger is collapsing grace back into a new law of religious performance, not confusing it with Hindu merit theology directly.

Key findings

• The registry tracks 5 doctrines for this sample; justification by faith is Critical-risk, matching Romans’ treatment of the same doctrine from a different angle (legalism rather than merit-karma).
• “Freedom” (स्वतंत्रता) carries real risk of collapsing into मोक्ष/मुक्ति if not anchored to freedom from the law’s condemnation, specifically.
• Flesh vs. Spirit (5:16-17) requires care to avoid a body-versus-soul dualism reading that isn’t Paul’s point.

Risks

• Legalism drift: without care, “freedom in Christ” can be taught as a mild loosening of law-keeping rather than Paul’s actual claim that law-keeping cannot justify at all.
• Liberation-language overlap: “freedom” (स्वतंत्रता) sits close enough to मोक्ष/मुक्ति that context must always specify freedom from what.

Opportunities

• Galatians’ emphasis on freedom resonates strongly with Hindi-speaking believers coming out of ritual-obligation-heavy backgrounds, once “freedom from what” is made explicit.

Recommended actions

• Route the Critical and High risk doctrines (3 of 5) through human theologian review.
• Reuse the Romans Language Package’s established renderings for shared terms (justification, law) rather than re-deriving them.