Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — English → Hindi | Matthew 1–28
Purpose
This document provides the full doctrine matrix for the Matthew curriculum, spanning every chapter from Matthew 1 to Matthew 28, with Matthew 5:1–12 (the Beatitudes) as the curriculum’s theological anchor rather than its scope boundary. It is fully CONSISTENT with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: the same 27 doctrines, in the same risk tiers, are reproduced here with supporting passages, translation-risk rationale, and review routing. This document drives Phase 2 Step 17 review routing decisions and must be read alongside 08_core_glossary.md (term-level detail) and 07_semantic_analysis.md (verse-level detail).
Risk tiers follow the baseline four-tier convention:
- Critical — mistranslation alters or destroys essential doctrine; human theologian review required for every occurrence.
- High — mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or syncretism risk; human theologian review required.
- Medium — mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning; native speaker review recommended.
- Low — mistranslation causes minor misunderstanding; automated review sufficient.
A. Mapping — Curriculum-Level Doctrines to Registry Doctrines
The nine curriculum_parameters doctrines expand, under semantic analysis, into 27 registry-level doctrines. This mapping preserves traceability:
| Curriculum-Level Doctrine | Registry Doctrine(s) |
|---|---|
| The Kingdom of Heaven | kingdom_of_heaven; repentance_and_kingdom_nearness |
| Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David | messianic_promise_son_of_david; son_of_man_authority_and_judgment; sonship_of_christ; deity_of_christ; incarnation; trinity |
| Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy | fulfillment_of_prophecy |
| The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching | authority_of_jesus_teaching; sabbath_and_christs_authority |
| Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees | righteousness_exceeding_pharisees; tradition_versus_gods_command; titles_and_spiritual_pride |
| The Church and Church Discipline | church_and_church_discipline; forgiveness_within_the_church |
| The Great Commission | great_commission; universal_scope_of_gospel |
| Judgment and the End of the Age | judgment_end_of_age; eschatological_separation_judgment; blasphemy_against_holy_spirit; resurrection_of_christ |
| Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus | discipleship_cost_of_following; narrow_way_exclusivity; grace_versus_merit_reward; atonement_and_ransom; lords_supper_new_covenant |
B. Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Hindi Doctrine Name | Chapters | Supporting Passages (Matthew) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Kingdom of Heaven | स्वर्ग का राज्य | 3,4,5,6,13,16,18,19,20,22,25 | 3:2; 4:17,23; 5:3,10,19-20; 6:10,33; 13:1-52; 16:19; 18:1-4,23; 19:14,23-24; 20:1; 22:2; 25:1,34 | Critical | स्वर्ग collides with Hindu svarga-loka, a temporary merit-attained heaven within the rebirth cycle; must be tracked as identical referent to baseline परमेश्वर का राज्य and read as a present, in-breaking reign, not merely a future afterlife destination. | Human theologian |
| 2 | Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David | मसीहाई वादा और दाऊद का पुत्र | 1,2,9,12,15,16,20,21,22 | 1:1-17; 2:1-6; 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 16:16; 20:30-31; 21:9,15,42; 22:41-45 | Critical | Must convey exclusive, one-time covenant fulfillment, not one avatar/teacher among several messianic candidates; genealogy and royal-title language require linear historical framing absent from Hindu cosmology. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy | भविष्यवाणी की पूर्ति | 1,2,4,8,12,13,21,26,27 | 1:22-23; 2:15,17,23; 4:14-16; 8:17; 12:17-21; 13:35; 21:4-5; 26:56; 27:9-10 | High | The recurring fulfillment formula must convey single, linear, historical fulfillment, never a cyclical/repeatable pattern as in yuga-cycle cosmology. | Human theologian |
| 4 | The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching | यीशु के उपदेश का अधिकार | 5,7,9,12,22,28 | 5:21-48; 7:28-29; 9:6; 12:8; 22:37-40; 28:18 | Critical | अधिकार must convey Jesus’s inherent, self-authenticating authority contrasted with the scribes’ tradition-derived authority, without collapsing into the guru-paramparā model of inherited teaching lineage. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees | फरीसियों से बढ़कर धार्मिकता | 5,6,15,23 | 5:20; 6:1-18; 15:1-20; 23:1-36 | Critical | Must never be heard as an escalated dharma-performance contest rather than heart-level righteousness; दान and उपवास carry live puṇya (merit-accumulation) connotations that must be explicitly excluded from the reward in view. | Human theologian |
| 6 | The Church and Church Discipline | कलीसिया और कलीसियाई अनुशासन | 16,18 | 16:18-19; 18:15-20 | High | The graduated, restorative discipline procedure must not be flattened into immediate public shaming (a risk given Indian honor/shame sensitivities); बांधना/खोलना must convey heaven-ratified, derivative church authority, not independent human legislative power. | Human theologian |
| 7 | The Great Commission | महान आज्ञा | 28 | 28:18-20 | Critical | सब जातियों must retain unqualified universality with no caste/ethnic/national exclusion; the grounding claim (सारा अधिकार) must convey Christ’s already-possessed, truly universal authority, not a provisional or regional one. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Judgment and the End of the Age | अन्तिम न्याय और युग का अन्त | 13,24,25 | 13:36-43,47-50; 24:1-51; 25:1-46 | Critical | आगमन and जगत का अन्त must convey a single, final, personal event, never a recurring avatāra-style descent or a cyclical pralaya/yuga dissolution; अनन्त दण्ड must carry symmetrical eternality with अनन्त जीवन in 25:46. | Human theologian |
| 9 | Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus | चेलाई और यीशु के पीछे चलने की कीमत | 4,5,10,11,16 | 4:18-22; 5:11-12; 10:37-39; 11:28-30; 16:24-26 | High | चेला (never शिष्य, which imports the guru-śiṣya merit/enlightenment paradigm) must convey grace-grounded allegiance; “deny himself” must not collapse into an advaitic ego-dissolution reading. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Deity of Christ | मसीह का ईश्वरत्व | 1,2,9,12,14,28 | 1:23; 2:2-11; 9:2-6; 12:8; 14:33; 28:9,17-18 | Critical | The προσκυνέω (worship) trajectory from ambiguous royal homage to uncorrected worship of the risen Christ is the book’s clearest narrative deity-claim and must always use आराधना, never पूजा. | Human theologian |
| 11 | Sonship of Christ | मसीह का पुत्रत्व | 3,4,8,14,16,17,26,27 | 3:17; 4:3,6; 8:29; 14:33; 16:16; 17:5; 26:63-64; 27:40,43,54 | Critical | परमेश्वर का पुत्र must remain Christ’s eternal, unique, co-equal Sonship, never conflated with the derivative, adoptive sonship of “peacemakers” (5:9) appearing in close textual proximity. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Son of Man — Danielic Authority and Judgment | मनुष्य के पुत्र का अधिकार और न्याय | 8,9,16,17,24,25,26 | 8:20; 9:6; 16:21,27-28; 17:22-23; 24:30; 25:31; 26:64 | Critical | मनुष्य का पुत्र risks flattening to “a mere human being” in ordinary Hindi, entirely losing the Daniel 7:13-14 allusion to a divinely-authorized, kingdom-receiving, judging figure. | Human theologian |
| 13 | Incarnation | देहधारण | 1,28 | 1:18-23; 28:20 | Critical | इम्मानुएल must be paired with देहधारण and distinguished from अवतार’s temporary, repeatable descent pattern; the closing promise (28:20) echoes this permanent presence. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Trinity | त्रिएकता | 3,28 | 3:16-17; 28:19 | Critical | The baptismal formula’s singular “name” naming three distinct Persons must avoid both tritheism and modalist/avataric conflation; never त्रिमूर्ति. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit | पवित्र आत्मा के विरुद्ध निन्दा | 12 | 12:22-32 | Critical | Must be rendered with extreme pastoral care as a settled, willful, final rejection of the Spirit’s testimony — never a generic serious sin, and never phrased to alarm anxious believers with momentary doubts. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Atonement and Ransom | प्रायश्चित्त और छुटकारे का दाम | 20,26,27 | 20:28; 26:26-28; 27:46 | Critical | The ransom saying must preserve substitution (ἀντί, “in place of”) and never drift toward मुक्ति/मोक्ष; the cry of dereliction (27:46) must not be softened into mere physical suffering nor imply rupture within the eternal Trinity. | Human theologian |
| 17 | The Lord’s Supper and the New Covenant | प्रभु का भोज और नई वाचा | 26 | 26:26-29 | Critical | Must not be assimilated to prasad/offering categories in which food is ritually offered to and returned from a deity; Christ is both giver and gift, not a reciprocal exchange. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Resurrection of Christ | मसीह का पुनरुत्थान | 12,22,28 | 12:38-40; 22:23-33; 28:1-10 | Critical | पुनरुत्थान must be preserved as bodily, historical, once-for-all; never पुनर्जन्म. The Sadducees’ denial (22:23) must not remain unresolved in the rendering. | Human theologian |
| 19 | Universal Scope of the Gospel to All Nations | सुसमाचार का सार्वभौमिक दायरा | 2,8,10,15,28 | 2:1-12; 8:5-13; 10:5-6; 15:21-28; 28:19 | High | The staged mission scope (Israel first, then all nations) must not be misread as a permanent ethnic restriction; unqualified universality must be retained throughout the trajectory. | Human theologian |
| 20 | Grace versus Merit (Reward/Wage Theology) | अनुग्रह और प्रतिफल — कर्म बनाम अनुग्रह | 5,6,19,20 | 5:12; 6:1-18; 19:16-26; 20:1-16 | High | प्रतिफल is Matthew’s most persistent karma-phal collision point; without the controlling lens of the Laborers in the Vineyard parable (20:1-16), reward passages risk being read as merit-proportional wages. | Human theologian |
| 21 | Sabbath and Christ’s Lordship | सब्त और मसीह का प्रभुत्व | 12 | 12:1-14 | Critical | प्रभु must convey Jesus’s supreme authority even over a foundational Torah institution, not merely a lenient legal-interpretive stance. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Tradition versus God’s Command | परम्परा और परमेश्वर की आज्ञा | 15 | 15:1-20 | High | Relocating defilement from external/ritual contact to internal moral corruption must not collapse back into shuddhi/ashuddhi ritual-purity categories, reversing the text’s own argument. | Human theologian |
| 23 | Eschatological Separation and Final Judgment | अन्तिम पृथक्करण और न्याय | 13,25 | 13:24-30,36-43,47-50; 25:1-46 | High | The wheat/weeds, dragnet, and sheep/goats separations must be read as God’s own final sorting, not a self-executing karmic law; compassionate deeds are evidence of prior grace, not the meritorious cause of entry. | Human theologian |
| 24 | Repentance and the Kingdom’s Nearness | मन फिराव और राज्य की निकटता | 3,4 | 3:1-12; 4:17 | High | ”The kingdom of heaven has drawn near” must preserve present-tense immediacy, resisting the purely future/afterlife-only reading that स्वर्ग का राज्य’s svarga associations would otherwise encourage. | Human theologian |
| 25 | Forgiveness Within the Church | कलीसिया में क्षमा | 6,18 | 6:12,14-15; 18:21-35 | Medium | अपराध and the Unforgiving Servant parable’s limitless forgiveness must not be read as a self-balancing karmic debt-ledger. | Native speaker review |
| 26 | Forbidden Honorific Titles and Spiritual Pride | उपाधियाँ और आत्मिक अभिमान | 23 | 23:1-12 | High | गुरु carries near-absolute authority connotations in Indian religious culture; the prohibition against seeking such status must retain full corrective force. | Human theologian |
| 27 | The Narrow Way and Gospel Exclusivity | तंग मार्ग और सुसमाचार की विशिष्टता | 7 | 7:13-14; 7:21-23 | High | In India’s pluralist “many paths, one destination” environment, तंग द्वार’s exclusivity claim must not be softened into one valid option among several. | Human theologian |
C. Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage (Matthew 1–28)
Full-book coverage confirmation. Every chapter of Matthew is represented by at least one doctrine below; no chapter is silently omitted. Where a chapter’s doctrinal load is lighter, this is noted explicitly rather than skipped.
| Ch. | Active Doctrines | Coverage Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Messianic Promise/Son of David; Fulfillment of Prophecy; Deity of Christ; Incarnation | Genealogy and virgin-birth narrative; foundational Christological chapter. |
| 2 | Messianic Promise/Son of David; Fulfillment of Prophecy; Deity of Christ; Universal Scope of Gospel | Magi narrative introduces the worship (προσκυνέω) trajectory and Gentile inclusion motif. |
| 3 | Kingdom of Heaven; Sonship of Christ; Trinity; Repentance and Kingdom’s Nearness | John the Baptist and Jesus’s baptism; Trinity’s clearest OT-adjacent narrative appearance. |
| 4 | Kingdom of Heaven; Fulfillment of Prophecy; Sonship of Christ; Discipleship; Repentance and Kingdom’s Nearness | Temptation narrative and calling of the first disciples; kingdom preaching begins (4:17). |
| 5 | Kingdom of Heaven; Authority of Jesus’ Teaching; Righteousness Exceeding Pharisees; Discipleship; Grace versus Merit | Core passage (5:1-12, the Beatitudes) plus the Antithesis Formula (5:21-48); theological anchor of the curriculum. |
| 6 | Kingdom of Heaven; Righteousness Exceeding Pharisees; Grace versus Merit; Forgiveness Within the Church | Lord’s Prayer, almsgiving/fasting critique, treasures in heaven. |
| 7 | Authority of Jesus’ Teaching; Narrow Way and Gospel Exclusivity | Sermon on the Mount conclusion; closes with the crowd’s astonishment at his authority (7:28-29). |
| 8 | Fulfillment of Prophecy; Sonship of Christ; Son of Man; Universal Scope of Gospel | Healing narratives; centurion’s faith anticipates Gentile inclusion. |
| 9 | Messianic Promise/Son of David; Authority of Jesus’ Teaching; Deity of Christ; Son of Man | Paralytic healing/forgiveness of sins (9:2-6) is a direct divine-prerogative claim. |
| 10 | Discipleship; Universal Scope of Gospel | Mission discourse; Israel-first staging of the sending of the Twelve. |
| 11 | Discipleship | ”My yoke is easy” (11:28-30); deliberate contrast with a heavier legal burden. |
| 12 | Messianic Promise; Fulfillment of Prophecy; Deity of Christ; Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit; Sabbath and Christ’s Lordship; Resurrection (sign of Jonah); Authority; Son of Man | Densest single chapter for Critical-risk doctrine density. |
| 13 | Kingdom of Heaven; Fulfillment of Prophecy; Judgment/End of Age; Eschatological Separation | Kingdom parables; wheat/weeds and dragnet anticipate final judgment. |
| 14 | Sonship of Christ; Deity of Christ | Walking on water; disciples’ worship confession (14:33). |
| 15 | Messianic Promise; Righteousness Exceeding Pharisees; Tradition versus God’s Command; Universal Scope of Gospel | Defilement discourse; Canaanite woman’s faith extends the mission trajectory. |
| 16 | Kingdom of Heaven; Messianic Promise; Church and Church Discipline; Discipleship; Sonship of Christ; Son of Man | Peter’s confession; keys of the kingdom; first cross-bearing call. |
| 17 | Sonship of Christ; Son of Man | Transfiguration — one-time visible manifestation of pre-existing glory. |
| 18 | Kingdom of Heaven; Church and Church Discipline; Forgiveness Within the Church | Church discipline procedure and Unforgiving Servant parable. |
| 19 | Kingdom of Heaven; Grace versus Merit | Rich young man; “with God all things are possible.” |
| 20 | Kingdom of Heaven; Messianic Promise; Atonement and Ransom; Grace versus Merit | Laborers in the Vineyard (controls all reward-language); ransom saying (20:28). |
| 21 | Messianic Promise; Fulfillment of Prophecy | Triumphal entry; rejected cornerstone citation. |
| 22 | Kingdom of Heaven; Messianic Promise; Authority of Jesus’ Teaching; Resurrection | Wedding banquet parable; Sadducees’ resurrection challenge; Greatest Commandment. |
| 23 | Righteousness Exceeding Pharisees; Titles and Spiritual Pride | Seven woes; prohibition of honorific titles. |
| 24 | Judgment/End of Age; Son of Man | Olivet Discourse — signs of the end, abomination of desolation. |
| 25 | Kingdom of Heaven; Judgment/End of Age; Eschatological Separation | Ten Virgins, Talents, Sheep and Goats. |
| 26 | Fulfillment of Prophecy; Sonship of Christ; Son of Man; Atonement and Ransom; Lord’s Supper/New Covenant | Last Supper institution; Gethsemane; arrest. |
| 27 | Fulfillment of Prophecy; Sonship of Christ; Atonement and Ransom | Crucifixion; cry of dereliction; veil torn. |
| 28 | Authority of Jesus’ Teaching; Great Commission; Deity of Christ; Incarnation; Trinity; Resurrection; Universal Scope of Gospel | Resurrection appearances; Great Commission — the book’s climactic doctrinal convergence point. |
No chapter of Matthew is without doctrinal content requiring translation-risk attention; the density is heaviest in chapters 1–5, 12, 16, and 22–28, consistent with the book’s genealogical/infancy material, the Sermon on the Mount (containing the core passage), the Caesarea Philippi/Sabbath controversies, and the Passion/Resurrection/Commission complex.
D. Escalation and Consistency Notes
- All baseline Romans/Galatians auto-escalation triggers carry over unchanged (grace-vs-works contrasts, election/predestination language, atonement/propitiation language, Lordship confession, resurrection references, deity-of-Christ references) and are joined by the Matthew-specific Critical-risk triggers in Section B above.
- Kingdom vocabulary governance: स्वर्ग का राज्य and परमेश्वर का राज्य (baseline) must be treated in translator notes as the same referent throughout Matthew; no document may imply two different kingdoms.
- Shared OT citations (Leviticus 19:18 at 22:39; Psalm 118:22 at 21:42; Davidic covenant language at 1:1,17 and 22:42-45) must match the baseline Romans/Galatians renderings verbatim per the cross-curriculum consistency rule.
- Citation format: this curriculum cites as मत्ती (e.g., मत्ती 5:1-12), per BSI OV/NV convention, with Arabic verse numerals.
- This document supersedes no baseline doctrine; it extends the baseline registry with Matthew-specific doctrines while leaving all Romans/Galatians doctrine entries and forbidden-substitution rules unchanged.
Companion documents: 08_core_glossary.md, 07_semantic_analysis.md, assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Kingdom of Heaven
Hindi name: स्वर्ग का राज्य
Key terms: kingdom_of_heaven, kingdom_of_god, fulfillment_formula, keys_of_the_kingdom, kingdom_transfer_warning
Review routing: Human theologian
स्वर्ग का राज्य collides with Hindu svarga-loka, a temporary heavenly reward-realm reached by accumulated merit within the rebirth cycle. The Hindi rendering risks being heard as a purely future afterlife destination and as a merit-attained reward rather than God’s present-and-coming reign entered by grace through repentance and faith (4:17). Must be tracked as identical in referent to the baseline परमेश्वर का राज्य throughout.
Jesus as the Promised Messiah and Son of David
Hindi name: मसीहाई वादा और दाऊद का पुत्र
Key terms: messiah, son_of_david, david, fulfillment_formula, rejected_cornerstone
Review routing: Human theologian
मसीह and दाऊद का पुत्र must convey exclusive, one-time covenant fulfillment, not one avatar or teacher among several messianic candidates (a live risk given India’s pluralist tolerance of multiple would-be saviors/gurus). The genealogy (ch. 1) and repeated fulfillment citations require readers to grasp a linear, historical fulfillment absent from Hindu cosmological frameworks.
The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching
Hindi name: यीशु के उपदेश का अधिकार
Key terms: authority, antithesis_formula, authority_to_forgive_sins, sabbath_lord_of_sabbath, scribes, greatest_commandment
Review routing: Human theologian
अधिकार must convey Jesus’s own inherent, self-authenticating authority, contrasted with the scribes’ authority derived from citing prior rabbinic tradition — a distinction that directly parallels and must not collapse into India’s guru-paramparā model, where a teacher’s authority derives from a chain of human transmission rather than being possessed independently and originally.
Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees
Hindi name: फरीसियों से बढ़कर धार्मिकता
Key terms: righteousness, righteousness_exceeding, hypocrisy, almsgiving, fasting, tradition_of_elders, defile_koinoo, titles_forbidden
Review routing: Human theologian
धार्मिकता…से बढ़कर must never be heard as an escalated dharma-performance contest (more external rule-keeping than the Pharisees) rather than heart-level righteousness addressing internal disposition. दान and उपवास both carry live merit-accumulation (puṇya) connotations in Hindu religious practice that must be explicitly excluded from the reward Jesus describes.
The Great Commission
Hindi name: महान आज्ञा
Key terms: great_commission, make_disciples, all_authority_heaven_earth, gentiles, baptism, trinity
Review routing: Human theologian
सब जातियों (all nations) must retain unqualified universality with no caste, ethnic, or national exclusion. The mandate’s ground — स्वर्ग और पृथ्वी पर सारा अधिकार — must convey Christ’s truly universal, already-possessed authority, not a regional or provisional claim; softening either element undermines the missionary mandate’s theological basis.
Judgment and the End of the Age
Hindi name: अन्तिम न्याय और युग का अन्त
Key terms: end_of_the_age, parousia, abomination_of_desolation, eternal_punishment, sheep_and_goats, sadducees
Review routing: Human theologian
आगमन and जगत का अन्त must convey a single, final, personal, historical event, never a recurring avatāra-style periodic divine intervention or a cyclical pralaya/yuga dissolution-and-recreation. अनन्त दण्ड must carry symmetrical, non-negotiable eternality alongside अनन्त जीवन in the same verse (25:46) — inconsistent handling would suggest a temporary, purgation-style naraka rather than final judgment.
Deity of Christ
Hindi name: मसीह का ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: worship, worship_of_risen_christ, son_of_god, lord, sabbath_lord_of_sabbath, authority_to_forgive_sins
Review routing: Human theologian
The προσκυνέω (worship) trajectory from ambiguous royal homage (ch. 2) to full, uncorrected worship of the risen Christ (28:9,17) is the clearest narrative deity-claim in the book and must always use आराधना, never पूजा. Any softening at the climactic points would erase the narrative argument for full deity.
Sonship of Christ
Hindi name: मसीह का पुत्रत्व
Key terms: son_of_god, transfiguration
Review routing: Human theologian
परमेश्वर का पुत्र must remain Christ’s eternal, unique, co-equal Sonship, never conflated with the derivative, adoptive sonship of peacemakers/believers (5:9) that appears in close textual proximity within the Sermon on the Mount.
Son of Man — Danielic Authority and Judgment
Hindi name: मनुष्य के पुत्र का अधिकार और न्याय
Key terms: son_of_man, authority, parousia
Review routing: Human theologian
मनुष्य का पुत्र in ordinary Hindi could be flattened to mean simply ‘a human being,’ entirely losing the Daniel 7:13-14 allusion to a divinely-authorized, kingdom-receiving, judging figure — a title that carries as much christological weight as ‘Son of God’ in Matthew, not less.
Incarnation
Hindi name: देहधारण
Key terms: incarnation, jesus
Review routing: Human theologian
इम्मानुएल (‘God with us,’ 1:23) must be paired with देहधारण and explicitly distinguished from अवतार’s temporary, repeatable deity-descent pattern. The closing promise (28:20, ‘I am with you always’) echoes this permanent presence and must be tied back to 1:23 by translator note.
Trinity
Hindi name: त्रिएकता
Key terms: trinity, holy_spirit, father, son_of_god, baptism
Review routing: Human theologian
The baptismal formula’s singular ‘name’ (नाम, not नामों) naming three distinct Persons must avoid both tritheism (three separate deities) and modalism/avataric conflation (त्रिमूर्ति-style sequential manifestations of one deity) — never त्रिमूर्ति.
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
Hindi name: पवित्र आत्मा के विरुद्ध निन्दा
Key terms: blasphemy_against_holy_spirit, holy_spirit, sin
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be rendered with extreme pastoral care as a settled, willful, final rejection of the Spirit’s testimony to Christ — never a generic serious sin, and never phrased so alarmingly that anxious believers with momentary doubts wrongly conclude they have committed it.
Atonement and Ransom
Hindi name: प्रायश्चित्त और छुटकारे का दाम
Key terms: ransom, redemption, cross, eli_eli_lama_sabachthani, veil_torn
Review routing: Human theologian
The ransom saying (20:28) must preserve substitution (ἀντί, ‘in place of’) and never drift toward मुक्ति/मोक्ष. Christ’s cry of dereliction (27:46) must not be softened into mere physical suffering nor imply a rupture within the eternal Trinity’s being — theologian review required given the doctrinal precision needed.
The Lord’s Supper and the New Covenant
Hindi name: प्रभु का भोज और नई वाचा
Key terms: lords_supper_institution, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Must not be assimilated to Hindu prasad/offering categories in which food is ritually offered to and returned from a deity; here Christ is both giver and gift, given to worshippers, not received from them in a reciprocal exchange. वाचा must connect explicitly to the covenant-history framework (Exodus 24:8; Jeremiah 31:31).
Resurrection of Christ
Hindi name: मसीह का पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: resurrection, sadducees
Review routing: Human theologian
पुनरुत्थान must be preserved as a bodily, historical, once-for-all event; never पुनर्जन्म. The Sadducees’ denial of resurrection (22:23) offers an occasion for confusion if the debate is not clearly resolved in Jesus’s favor within the rendering.
Sabbath and Christ’s Lordship
Hindi name: सब्त और मसीह का प्रभुत्व
Key terms: sabbath_lord_of_sabbath, lord, authority
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रभु (reused from the baseline Critical-risk lord entry) must convey Jesus’s supreme authority even over a foundational Torah institution, not merely a lenient legal-interpretive stance on Sabbath rules.
High Risk Doctrines
Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy
Hindi name: भविष्यवाणी की पूर्ति
Key terms: fulfillment_formula, prophet, son_of_david, rejected_cornerstone
Review routing: Human theologian
The recurring fulfillment formula must convey a single, linear, historical fulfillment (OT promise → NT event in Jesus), never a cyclical or repeatable pattern as in Hindu yuga-cycle cosmology, where mythic/prophetic events recur across cosmic ages.
The Church and Church Discipline
Hindi name: कलीसिया और कलीसियाई अनुशासन
Key terms: church, keys_of_the_kingdom, bind_and_loose, church_discipline_procedure
Review routing: Human theologian
The graduated, restorative discipline procedure (private confrontation → witnesses → the church → treat as outsider) must not be flattened into an immediate public-shaming mechanism, which would clash badly with honor/shame sensitivities in Indian social contexts and misrepresent the passage’s restorative intent. बांधना/खोलना must convey heaven-ratified, derivative church authority under Christ, not an independent human power to legislate.
Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus
Hindi name: चेलाई और यीशु के पीछे चलने की कीमत
Key terms: disciple, follow_akoloutheo, cross_bearing, yoke_of_christ, reward_misthos
Review routing: Human theologian
चेला (never शिष्य, which imports the guru-śiṣya merit/enlightenment paradigm) must convey grace-grounded allegiance to a saving Lord. ‘Deny himself’ (16:24) must not collapse into an ego-dissolution reading resembling advaitic loss of selfhood; the self remains real and continues to choose costly obedience.
Universal Scope of the Gospel to All Nations
Hindi name: सुसमाचार का सार्वभौमिक दायरा
Key terms: gentiles, great_commission, israel
Review routing: Human theologian
The staged mission scope (Israel first, ch. 10; then all nations, ch. 28) must not be misread as a permanent ethnic restriction; the trajectory from magi (ch. 2) to Great Commission (ch. 28) must retain unqualified universality with no caste or ethnic barrier implied at any point along the way.
Grace versus Merit (Reward/Wage Theology)
Hindi name: अनुग्रह और प्रतिफल — कर्म बनाम अनुग्रह
Key terms: grace, reward_misthos, almsgiving
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रतिफल (reward/wage) is Matthew’s most persistent karma-phal collision point: without the controlling lens of the Laborers in the Vineyard parable (20:1-16), where identical wages are paid regardless of hours worked, every other ‘reward’ passage risks being read as merit-proportional payment rather than disproportionate grace.
Tradition versus God’s Command
Hindi name: परम्परा और परमेश्वर की आज्ञा
Key terms: tradition_of_elders, defile_koinoo, hypocrisy
Review routing: Human theologian
The passage’s core move — relocating defilement from external/ritual contact to internal moral corruption — must be rendered so as not to collapse back into Hindu ritual purity/impurity (shuddhi/ashuddhi) categories, which would reverse the text’s own argument.
Eschatological Separation and Final Judgment
Hindi name: अन्तिम पृथक्करण और न्याय
Key terms: sheep_and_goats, eternal_punishment, eternal_life
Review routing: Human theologian
The wheat/weeds, dragnet, and sheep/goats separations must be read as God’s own final sorting, not a self-executing karmic law of accumulated deeds; the sheep’s compassionate deeds (25:31-46) are evidence of prior grace-relationship with the King, not the meritorious cause of entering the kingdom.
Repentance and the Kingdom’s Nearness
Hindi name: मन फिराव और राज्य की निकटता
Key terms: kingdom_of_heaven, fulfillment_formula
Review routing: Human theologian
‘The kingdom of heaven has drawn near’ must preserve present-tense immediacy (an already-inbreaking reign), resisting a purely future/afterlife-only reading that स्वर्ग का राज्य’s svarga-loka associations would otherwise encourage. मन फिराव (baseline repentance term) is reused exactly and must retain whole-life turning, not mere remorse.
Forbidden Honorific Titles and Spiritual Pride
Hindi name: उपाधियाँ और आत्मिक अभिमान
Key terms: titles_forbidden, hypocrisy
Review routing: Human theologian
गुरु carries deep reverential, near-absolute authority connotations in Indian religious culture, comparable to or exceeding रब्बी; the prohibition against disciples seeking such honorific status for themselves must retain its full corrective force rather than being read as a minor point of etiquette.
The Narrow Way and Gospel Exclusivity
Hindi name: तंग मार्ग और सुसमाचार की विशिष्टता
Key terms: narrow_gate, great_commission
Review routing: Human theologian
In India’s pluralist religious environment, where ‘many paths, one destination’ is a widespread devotional assumption, तंग द्वार’s exclusivity claim must not be softened into one valid option among several equally legitimate religious paths.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Forgiveness Within the Church
Hindi name: कलीसिया में क्षमा
Key terms: church_discipline_procedure, mercy
Review routing: Native speaker review
अपराध (debts/sins) and the Unforgiving Servant parable’s limitless forgiveness (‘seventy times seven’) must not be read as a self-balancing karmic debt-ledger; forgiveness flows from and mirrors God’s own prior, gracious forgiveness already received.
Referenced passages