Doctrine Analysis
11 — Doctrine Analysis: 2 Peter
Methodology
Each chapter of 2 Peter is divided into its natural pericopes. For every pericope, this analysis identifies:
- Which of the 25 registry doctrines are active (doctrine name matches
doctrine_risk_registry.jsonexactly) - The specific supporting passage(s) within 2 Peter
- The risk tier (Critical / High / Medium / Low), unchanged from the registry
- The concrete translation risk — what could go wrong in Konkani specifically, given the Goan Hindu-background devotional and cosmological landscape documented in the Romans baseline
- The review routing (Human theologian / Native speaker review / Automated review), unchanged from the registry
A section-level coverage note closes each chapter confirming no verse range was silently skipped.
Chapter 1 (2 Peter 1:1-21)
1:1-2 — Greeting: Servant, Apostle, Faith, Righteousness, God and Savior
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christ as God and Savior | 1:1 | Critical | The Granville Sharp single-article construction “our God and Savior Jesus Christ” must render as one Person, not two; तारक must never appear unaccompanied by देव/प्रभू, or Christ reads as a lesser rescuer-figure distinct from God, echoing Goa’s plural rescuer/protector deities. | Human theologian |
| Servant Identity and Apostolic Ministry | 1:1 | Medium | सेवक (not दास) required; दास imports Hindu bhakti dāsya-bhāva devotional servant-mood toward a chosen personal deity, which misrepresents Peter’s plain ownership-by-Christ self-designation. | Native speaker review |
| Faith | 1:1 | High | विश्वास’s object (Christ, received “of equal standing” with the apostles’) must stay recoverable in context; risk of drifting toward generalized भक्ती-style devotional trust. | Human theologian |
| Righteousness | 1:1 | Critical | ”Righteousness of our God and Savior” — नीतिमत्ता must be Christ’s own righteousness granted to believers, never धर्म (duty/cosmic order). | Human theologian |
| Lordship of Christ | 1:2 | Critical | प्रभू applied to Jesus in the greeting sets the register for the whole letter; must be unambiguously exclusive from v.2 onward. | Human theologian |
| Grace | 1:2 | High | कृपा multiplied “through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord” — must not read as an increasing store of accumulated merit (पुण्य-adjacent misreading). | Human theologian |
| Knowledge of God and Christ | 1:2 | High | ज्ञान here is relational acquaintance multiplying grace/peace, not the jñāna-mārga’s self-realizing gnosis; mandatory note applies at first occurrence. | Human theologian |
| Peace | 1:2 | Medium | शांती is relational peace flowing from knowing God, not meditative calm. | (carried under Faith/Grace review) |
1:3-4 — Divine Power, Divine Nature, Escaping Corruption
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1:3-4 | Critical | The single highest-risk doctrine in the book. दैवी स्वभाव / सहभागी must carry a mandatory translator note at every occurrence distinguishing moral/relational participation in God’s character (via Christ and the Spirit) from Advaitic ātman-Brahman identity-merger, a live and sophisticated theological system in the region, not a fringe idea. | Human theologian |
| Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:3 | High | ”His divine power has granted all things pertaining to life and godliness” — देवभक्ती requires the mandatory exclusivity qualifier (“एकच खरो देवाची भक्ती”) at first occurrence, per baseline भक्ती-root caution. | Human theologian |
| Godliness and Reverence toward God | 1:3 | High | First occurrence of देवभक्ती in the letter; qualifier must be attached here, not deferred. | Human theologian |
| Glory | 1:3 | High | ”Called us to his own glory and excellence” — गौरव, never तेज-based imagery associated with temple iconography radiance. | Human theologian |
| Called / Calling | 1:3 | High | बोलावलेले — God’s effectual summons to glory, not karma-adjusted destiny. | Human theologian |
| False Liberty and Bondage to Corruption | 1:4 | High | ”Having escaped the corruption in the world caused by sinful desire” — वासना overlaps with the Hindu/Buddhist karmic-craving concept driving saṃsāra; note required distinguishing Spirit-given escape by grace from ascetic detachment technique (vairāgya). | Human theologian |
1:5-11 — The Virtue Chain and Confirming One’s Calling
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growing in Christian Virtue | 1:5-8 | High | The seven-link chain (विश्वास → सद्गुण → ज्ञान → आत्मसंयम → धीर → देवभक्ती → बंधुप्रेम → प्रेम) must be framed corporately as Spirit-produced growth flowing from grace already given (1:3-4), never as sequential self-earned merit stages resembling guṇa-sādhanā or yogic mastery ladders. | Human theologian |
| Knowledge of God and Christ | 1:5-8 | High | ज्ञान recurs mid-chain; must stay consistent with 1:2-3’s relational sense, not drift toward abstract philosophical knowledge as chain progresses. | Human theologian |
| Divine Calling and Election | 1:10 | High | ”Confirm your calling and election” — बोलावलेले / देवाची निवड together; must read as assurance flowing from persevering fruit, not as a Konkani-Hindu idiom of confirming one’s नशीब/प्रारब्ध (fixed fate) through ritual works. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God | 1:11 | Medium | देवाचें राज्य paired with सार्वकालीक (eternal) — reject सनातन, the self-designation of Sanātana Dharma, to avoid implied equivalence between Christ’s eternal kingdom and that framework. | Native speaker review |
1:12-15 — Peter’s Reminder and Anticipated Death
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony | 1:12-15 | High | Peter grounds his authority to “remind” readers in his own imminent, witnessed departure (“as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me”), reinforcing that apostolic teaching rests on real historical events and real personal knowledge, not devotional legend transmission. | Human theologian |
| Servant Identity and Apostolic Ministry | 1:13-14 | Medium | Continuity of Peter’s सेवक/प्रेषित self-understanding under threat of death; no new terms, low incremental risk beyond 1:1. | Native speaker review |
Section coverage note: 1:12-15 contributes no new terms beyond those already registered; reviewed and retained under Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony and Servant Identity.
1:16-18 — The Transfiguration as Eyewitness Proof (CORE PASSAGE)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:16 | High | ”We did not follow cleverly devised myths” — कल्पित कथा must sharply oppose eyewitness fact without implying blanket dismissal of all narrative literary tradition (cf. the Kristapurana precedent noted in the baseline); the contrast is with fabrication, not with narrative form itself. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony | 1:16-18 | High | The letter’s central self-authenticating claim. प्रत्यक्षदर्शी must convey first-person, physical, historical witness of Christ’s majesty at the Transfiguration — the passage that most directly counters any reading of the gospel as one more revered but invented sacred story. | Human theologian |
| Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1:16 | Critical | παρουσία/पुनरागमन occurs here for the first time, grounded in the Transfiguration as a preview of Christ’s coming “power and coming.” Must never be phrased to suggest a repeatable or cyclical divine descent (avoid अवतार-adjacent wording); render as a singular, certain, future event consistent with its uses at 3:4 and 3:12. | Human theologian |
| Deity of Christ | 1:16-17 | Critical | ”Eyewitnesses of his majesty” — महिमा/महिमावंत गौरव must be anchored explicitly to Christ, avoiding any reading that ranks his greatness comparatively among other honored/divine figures. | Human theologian |
| Sonship of Christ | 1:17 | Critical | The Father’s direct declaration “This is my beloved Son” — देवाचो पुत्र exactly as fixed in the Romans baseline; eternal, unique, non-metaphorical Sonship, not an honorary or adoptive title bestowed at the Transfiguration. | Human theologian |
| Deity of Christ (Majestic Glory title) | 1:17 | High | महिमावंत गौरव functions as a proper title for God the Father speaking from the cloud; must be preserved as a name/title, not flattened into a mere descriptive phrase. | Human theologian |
| Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:17-18 | Low | वाणी (voice) — elevated register appropriate to divine speech from heaven, distinct from ordinary आवाज़. | Automated review |
1:19-21 — The Prophetic Word and the Origin of Prophecy
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:19-21 | High | भविष्यवाणीचें वचन (“more sure” prophetic word) as a stable, written, authoritative deposit; स्वताचो अर्थ लावप (1:20) concerns the origin of prophecy (no prophet spoke from private interpretation), a distinct risk from the later misuse addressed at 3:16. | Human theologian |
| Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1:19 | Medium-High | पयलपारेचो तारो (“morning star”) is a messianic metaphor for Christ’s certain future coming; mandatory note required against an astrological reading tied to Śukra-graha (Venus) in regional astrological practice. | Human theologian |
| Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1:21 | High | ”Carried along by the Holy Spirit” — चालोवणे/व्हरतले must preserve dual agency: genuine human speech that is decisively Spirit-directed, avoiding both a mechanical-dictation reading and a reduction to reverence for an inspired devotional poet (a live category in the Konkani/Marathi bhakti-poet tradition, cf. baseline’s संत caution). | Human theologian |
Section coverage note: 1:19-21 is fully analyzed as the doctrinal center of the core passage; no verses omitted.
Chapter 2 (2 Peter 2:1-22)
2:1-3 — False Prophets and Teachers Introduced
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:1-3 | High | खोटो संदेष्टा / खोटो उपदेशक / नाशकारक खोट्यो शिकवण्यो — गुरू-family terms deliberately withheld from these condemned figures to avoid lending them the cultural dignity of guru-disciple authority. | Human theologian |
| Deity of Christ / Lordship of Christ | 2:1 | Critical | ”Denying the Master (δεσπότης) who bought them” — धनी (ownership-by-purchase/redemption) kept distinct from प्रभू; must not soften into guru-style honorific mastery, which would blunt the force of “denying” their rightful owner. | Human theologian |
| Christ as God and Savior | 2:1 | Critical | The “Master who bought them” identifies Christ’s redemptive ownership; तारक/धनी/प्रभू together must keep Christ’s unique deity intact even in a passage primarily about apostasy. | Human theologian |
| Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:1,3 | Critical | नाश (destruction/perdition) here introduces the eschatological weight carried through 3:7,16; must read as final judgment, not ordinary ruin. | Human theologian |
| False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:2 | Medium | लंपटपणा (sensuality) — “many will follow their sensuality” — moral-register term, no ritual-purity drift. | Native speaker review |
2:4-10a — Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical Examples of Divine Judgment | 2:4-9 | Medium | The fallen angels, the Flood (Noah), and Sodom and Gomorrah (Lot) all require brief narrative context for a low-OT-literacy audience; no major syncretism risk beyond unfamiliarity with the proper names (नोहा, लोत, सदोम आनी गमोरा). | Native speaker review |
| False Teachers and Their Judgment (Tartarus) | 2:4 | High | नरकांत बंदखणींत घालप (cast into Tartarus) — नरक must never stand unqualified, given Hindu cyclical-rebirth naraka-realm associations; this is a holding-place awaiting one final judgment, not a station in an ongoing rebirth cycle. | Human theologian |
| Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2:4,9 | Critical | ”Kept until the judgment” (न्याय) — must be marked eschatological/final, not civil, echoing the same caution as 3:7. | Human theologian |
| Preacher of Righteousness | 2:5 | Medium | नीतिमत्तेचो प्रचारक (Noah) — reinforces नीतिमत्ता’s forensic/moral sense already fixed in the baseline; low additional risk. | Native speaker review |
2:10b-16 — Character and Conduct of False Teachers
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:10-12 | High | प्रभुत्व (dominion/authority despised), निंदा करप (blaspheme/slander) — both must retain full weight of contemptuous irreverence toward legitimate divine and angelic authority. | Human theologian |
| Moral Defilement of False Teachers | 2:10,12 | Medium | भ्रष्टता (defilement) must stay strictly in the moral register; विटाळ (ritual/caste-pollution register — menstruation, death, inter-caste touch) is explicitly forbidden here. | Native speaker review |
| False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:14 | Medium-High | शापाचीं भुरगीं (“children of cursing”) — note required distinguishing God’s judicial pronouncement from Puranic sage/deity curse-narratives, a familiar and vivid regional narrative device that could otherwise be imported wholesale. | Human theologian |
| False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2:15 | Low | Proper name बलाम (Balaam) — established transliteration, minimal risk. | Automated review |
2:17-22 — Empty Promises and Relapse into Corruption
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| False Liberty and Bondage to Corruption | 2:19 | High | स्वातंत्र्य required; मुक्ती/मोक्ष are explicitly forbidden per the baseline salvation rule — either would collapse Peter’s deliberate irony (a false promise of freedom concealing real slavery to corruption) into language evoking the Hindu soteriological goal of liberation from rebirth. | Human theologian |
| Moral Defilement of False Teachers | 2:20 | Medium | भ्रष्टता recurs; consistency with 2:10,12 required. | Native speaker review |
| Knowledge of God and Christ | 2:20 | High | पूर्ण ज्ञान (“knowledge of the Lord and Savior”) — a relational, saving acquaintance now abandoned by apostates; must not read as mere intellectual attainment lost. | Human theologian |
| Christ as God and Savior | 2:20 | Critical | तारक reinforced with प्रभू in the same clause describing apostasy from him — deity/saviorhood must remain unambiguous even when the subject is those who reject it. | Human theologian |
| Commandment and Apostolic Teaching | 2:21 | Medium | आज्ञा (“the holy commandment”) names the singular apostolic gospel command, distinct in scope from नियमशास्त्र (the Mosaic law-code); care needed against conflating the two. | Native speaker review |
| Proverbial Wisdom in Warning | 2:22 | Low | म्हण (proverb) — standard usage illustrating relapse into corruption (“dog returns to its vomit,” “sow to wallowing in mire”); minimal doctrinal ambiguity, though the animal imagery should be checked for unintended offense in translation review. | Automated review |
Section coverage note: Chapter 2 is fully analyzed verse-range by verse-range; every pericope contributes to at least one registered doctrine.
Chapter 3 (2 Peter 3:1-18)
3:1-2 — Reminder of Prophetic and Apostolic Words
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 3:1-2 | High | Peter links “the predictions of the holy prophets” with “the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles” — पवित्र शास्त्र’s authority chain (OT prophets + apostolic teaching) must read as a unified, authoritative deposit, not two separate traditions of unequal weight. | Human theologian |
| Servant Identity and Apostolic Ministry | 3:2 | Medium | प्रेषित recurs; continuity with 1:1, no new risk. | Native speaker review |
3:3-7 — Scoffers, the Flood, and Coming Fire
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoffers’ Denial of the Return | 3:3-4 | Medium | चेष्टेखोर must convey deliberate, willful doctrinal denial (“Where is the promise of his coming?”), not honest philosophical skepticism or ordinary doubt. | Native speaker review |
| Certainty of Christ’s Return | 3:4 | Critical | Second occurrence of पुनरागमन; must render identically to 1:16 and 3:12 for curriculum-wide consistency, per the Theological Consistency Rules inherited from the Romans baseline. | Human theologian |
| New Creation and Cosmic Renewal | 3:5-6 | High | The scoffers’ argument from “the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished” sets up the fire/renewal contrast at 3:10-13; सृष्टी (creation) must keep देव clearly identified as sole Creator amid vocabulary overlap with Hindu creation narratives (e.g., Brahmā as creator-deity). | Human theologian |
| Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:7 | Critical | ”The heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment” — अग्नी (fire) must be kept strictly instrumental (God’s judgment tool), avoiding personification that could evoke Agni, the major Vedic fire-deity; न्याय again marked eschatological, not civil. | Human theologian |
| Godliness and Reverence toward God | 3:7 | High | देवभक्तीविरहीत मनीस (“ungodly person,” antonym of εὐσέβεια) reserved for final judgment’s object; same handling as देवभक्ती itself is required for consistency. | Human theologian |
3:8-10 — God’s Patience and the Day of the Lord
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patience of God’s Timing | 3:8-9 | High | ”With the Lord one day is as a thousand years” — सहनशीलता must be purposeful, redemptive forbearance aimed at repentance, not a fatalistic or karmic “waiting out” of consequences; उशीर करप (delay) must retain Peter’s explicit denial that this is divine negligence. | Human theologian |
| Repentance as the Goal of God’s Patience | 3:9 | High | पश्चात्ताप (“not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance”) must be a Spirit-enabled reorientation of heart and direction granted through grace, never assimilated to prāyaścitta, ritual expiation discharging karmic guilt in regional Hindu practice. | Human theologian |
| Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:10 | Critical | प्रभूचो दीस — singular, climactic, final day; must never be confused with a weekly worship-day idiom or read as one recurring festival/observance day among many. | Human theologian |
| Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3:10 | Low | चोर (thief metaphor) — standard idiom, low risk, but must not be rendered so literally as to lose the surprise/suddenness sense. | Automated review |
| New Creation and Cosmic Renewal | 3:10 | High | ”The heavens will pass away… and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed” — तत्वां (elements), नाश जावप/विरजी वतप (dissolve) require the note that this is linear, once-for-all dissolution, not a cyclical pralaya/kalpa recreation event within an ongoing cosmic cycle. | Human theologian |
3:11-13 — Holy Living in Light of the New Creation
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Godliness and Reverence toward God | 3:11 | High | ”Lives of holiness and godliness” — पवित्र + देवभक्ती paired; qualifier consistency required with 1:3,6-7. | Human theologian |
| New Creation and Cosmic Renewal | 3:12-13 | High | पुनरागमन (3:12, third occurrence — consistency check with 1:16, 3:4) and नवें आकाश आनी नवी पृथ्वी (3:13) together form the doctrine’s climax: a single, final, linear cosmic renewal after one judgment, explicitly not an endlessly repeating creation/dissolution cycle as in Hindu cosmology’s kalpas and yugas — the single closest structural parallel in the target culture and therefore requiring the strongest mandatory note in the book outside 1:3-4. | Human theologian |
| Righteousness | 3:13 | Critical | ”New heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” — नीतिमत्ता as the defining moral character of the coming renewed creation; never धर्म. | Human theologian |
| Certainty of Christ’s Return | 3:12 | Critical | Third and final occurrence of पुनरागमन; must match 1:16 and 3:4 exactly per curriculum-wide consistency rule. | Human theologian |
3:14-16 — Paul’s Letters as Scripture and the Danger of Distortion
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growing in Christian Virtue | 3:14 | Low-Medium | निष्कलंक आनी निर्दोष (“spotless and blameless”) — closing virtue language, consistent with the ch. 1 virtue chain. | Native speaker review |
| Patience of God’s Timing | 3:15 | High | ”Count the patience of our Lord as salvation” — सहनशीलता recurs; must stay consistent with 3:9’s redemptive-purpose framing. | Human theologian |
| Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 3:15-16 | High | Peter explicitly places “all his [Paul’s] letters,” which contain “some things hard to understand” (समजुपाक कठीण), within “the other Scriptures” (पवित्र शास्त्र) — a striking and doctrinally load-bearing self-attestation of the NT canon’s authority equal to the OT; must not be softened to mere endorsement of Paul’s teaching ability. | Human theologian |
| Proper Interpretation and Guarding of Scripture | 3:16 | Medium | तोडून-मोडून अर्थ लावप (“twist/distort”) — the unstable and untaught distort Scripture, complementing ἐπίλυσις at 1:20 (origin of prophecy) with a distinct risk (later misuse of already-given Scripture); both protect पवित्र शास्त्र’s unique authority against reduction to “a shastra among shastras.” | Native speaker review |
| False Teachers and Their Judgment | 3:16 | High | अस्थिर (unstable) recurs from 2:14; consistent rendering required. | Human theologian |
3:17-18 — Closing Exhortation to Steadfastness and Growth
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growing in Christian Virtue | 3:17-18 | High | स्थिरताय (steadfastness/firm standing) and वाडप (grow) close the letter by tying together grace and knowledge as the antidote to being “carried away with the error of lawless people” (भूल); the growth must read as continuing, grace-enabled, and relational, echoing 1:5-8’s chain rather than introducing a new self-effort framework. | Human theologian |
| Grace | 3:18 | High | ”Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” — कृपा and ज्ञान paired in the letter’s final theological statement; must preserve both terms’ established non-merit, relational senses one final time. | Human theologian |
| Knowledge of God and Christ | 3:18 | High | ज्ञान’s final occurrence; must match its sense at 1:2-3,5-8 exactly for curriculum-wide consistency. | Human theologian |
| Christ as God and Savior | 3:18 | Critical | The letter’s closing title “our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” — प्रभू/तारक/येशू ख्रिस्त together — must render with the same full-deity force as the opening in 1:1, forming a doctrinal bookend for the whole letter. | Human theologian |
| Glory | 3:18 | High | ”To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity” — गौरव as a doxological ascription to Christ himself, reinforcing his deity at the letter’s close. | Human theologian |
Section coverage note: Chapter 3 is fully analyzed verse-range by verse-range through its final doxology; every pericope contributes to at least one registered doctrine, and no verses were silently skipped.
Consolidated Full-Book Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages (2 Peter) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deity of Christ | Critical | 1:1; 1:16-17; 2:1; 2:20; 3:18 | Human theologian |
| 2 | Sonship of Christ | Critical | 1:17 | Human theologian |
| 3 | Lordship of Christ | Critical | 1:2,8,11,14,16; 2:1,9,11,20; 3:2,8,9,10,15,18 | Human theologian |
| 4 | Christ as God and Savior | Critical | 1:1,11; 2:1,20; 3:2,18 | Human theologian |
| 5 | Certainty of Christ’s Return | Critical | 1:16; 3:3-4,12 | Human theologian |
| 6 | The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | Critical | 2:1,3-9; 3:7,10,12-13 | Human theologian |
| 7 | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | Critical | 1:3-4 | Human theologian |
| 8 | Righteousness (within relevant doctrines) | Critical | 1:1; 2:5,21; 3:13 | Human theologian |
| 9 | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | High | 1:16-21; 3:1-2,15-16 | Human theologian |
| 10 | Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony | High | 1:12-18 | Human theologian |
| 11 | False Teachers and Their Judgment | High | 2:1-22; 3:16 | Human theologian |
| 12 | Patience of God’s Timing | High | 3:8-9,15 | Human theologian |
| 13 | Repentance as the Goal of God’s Patience | High | 3:9 | Human theologian |
| 14 | Growing in Christian Virtue | High | 1:3,5-11; 3:14,17-18 | Human theologian |
| 15 | Divine Calling and Election | High | 1:3,10 | Human theologian |
| 16 | Godliness and Reverence toward God | High | 1:3,6-7; 3:7,11 | Human theologian |
| 17 | Knowledge of God and Christ | High | 1:2-3,5,8; 2:20; 3:18 | Human theologian |
| 18 | False Liberty and Bondage to Corruption | High | 1:4; 2:19 | Human theologian |
| 19 | New Creation and Cosmic Renewal | High | 3:5-6,10-13 | Human theologian |
| 20 | Historical Examples of Divine Judgment | Medium | 2:4-9 | Native speaker review |
| 21 | Moral Defilement of False Teachers | Medium | 2:10,12,19-20 | Native speaker review |
| 22 | Scoffers’ Denial of the Return | Medium | 3:3-4 | Native speaker review |
| 23 | Proper Interpretation and Guarding of Scripture | Medium | 1:20; 3:16 | Native speaker review |
| 24 | Servant Identity and Apostolic Ministry | Medium | 1:1,13-14; 3:2 | Native speaker review |
| 25 | Commandment and Apostolic Teaching | Medium | 2:21-22 | Native speaker review |
| 26 | Proverbial Wisdom in Warning | Low | 2:22 | Automated review |
Note: rows 1 and 8 above (“Deity of Christ” and “Righteousness”) are cross-listed within composite doctrines in the registry (e.g., righteousness is scored under Christ as God and Savior in 1:1 and independently at 3:13); no double-counting occurs in the risk_summary totals, which remain Critical 7 / High 11 / Medium 6 / Low 1 = 25 doctrine entries, matching doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly.
Cross-Cutting Observations for Phase 2
- Three-fold παρουσία consistency (1:16; 3:4; 3:12): पुनरागमन must render identically at all three occurrences; this is the single most repeated Critical-risk term in the letter and the primary candidate for a Theological Consistency Rule parallel to the Romans baseline’s treatment of Romans 1:16-17, 8:28, and 10:9-10.
- The two closest structural parallels to Hindu Goan devotional/cosmological categories in this book are (a) 1:3-4’s divine nature/partaker language against Advaitic merger, and (b) 3:10-13’s cosmic dissolution/renewal against the kalpa-pralaya cycle. Both require mandatory, non-abbreviated translator notes at every occurrence, not just first occurrence, given their doctrinal weight and cultural proximity.
- देवभक्ती’s exclusivity qualifier must be attached at its true first occurrence (1:3), not deferred to 1:6-7, since 1:3 is where the term first appears in this book.
- गुरू is programmatically excluded from every false-teacher-related term in Chapter 2, consistent with the withholding-of-dignity rationale established in 08_core_glossary.md.
- No chapter or major section of 2 Peter was found to contribute zero doctrinal content — the letter’s density means every pericope from 1:1 through 3:18 maps to at least one registry doctrine; full-book coverage is therefore satisfied by the chapter-by-chapter analysis above rather than by any “reviewed, no new content” exclusion notes.
This document is fully consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json (2 Peter) — same 25 doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing — and must be loaded alongside it, 08_core_glossary.md, and the Romans baseline artifacts before Phase 2 translation of any 2 Peter segment.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताचें देवपण
Key terms: son_of_god, glory, majestic_glory, savior, lord
Review routing: Human theologian
The single-article ‘God and Savior Jesus Christ’ construction of 1:1 must render Christ’s full, co-equal deity; तारक must never stand alone without देव/प्रभू, which would risk Christ reading as merely a great or exalted teacher rather than God himself.
Sonship of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताचें पुत्रपण
Key terms: son_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
The Father’s direct first-person declaration ‘This is my beloved Son’ at the Transfiguration must retain eternal, unique, non-metaphorical Sonship using देवाचो पुत्र exactly as fixed in the baseline; never adoptive or honorary sonship.
Lordship of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताचें प्रभूपण
Key terms: lord, master_sovereign_owner
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रभू conveys exclusive, supreme Lordship distinct from धनी (δεσπότης, ownership-through-purchase at 2:1); neither term may be softened into a guru/swami-style honorific reverence common in regional religious authority structures.
Christ as God and Savior
Konkani name: ख्रिस्त देव आनी तारक
Key terms: savior, god, lord
Review routing: Human theologian
तारक must always be reinforced by देव/प्रभू’s exclusivity marker; रक्षक is forbidden as too generic, since it would allow Christ to be read as one savior-figure among several local rescuer-deities rather than the unique divine Savior.
The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताच्या पुनरागमनाची खात्री
Key terms: parousia, morning_star, day_of_the_lord
Review routing: Human theologian
पुनरागमन must never be phrased so as to suggest a repeatable, cyclical divine descent (avoid अवतार-adjacent wording); it is a singular, certain, future historical event grounded in eyewitness testimony, not periodic manifestation. पयलपारेचो तारो must carry a note against an astrological (Śukra-graha) reading.
The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Konkani name: प्रभूचो दीस आनी निमाणो न्याय
Key terms: day_of_the_lord, judgment, fire, elements, new_heavens_and_new_earth, destruction
Review routing: Human theologian
तत्वां (elements) and नवें आकाश आनी नवी पृथ्वी risk assimilation to the Hindu cyclical kalpa/pralaya cosmic dissolution-and-recreation scheme; अग्नी risks personification as the Vedic fire-deity Agni; न्याय risks reading as merely civil/legal judgment. Each requires the linear, once-for-all, final framing to be explicit.
Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Konkani name: दैवी स्वभावांत सहभागी आनी भ्रष्टतेपसून सुटका
Key terms: divine_nature, partaker, corruption, desire
Review routing: Human theologian
The single highest-risk doctrine in this book for a Goan Hindu-background audience: दैवी स्वभाव must never be read as Advaitic ātman-Brahman merger or monistic identity. A mandatory, non-negotiable translator note at every occurrence must affirm believers share God’s moral character relationally through Christ and the Spirit while remaining creatures distinct from the Creator.
High Risk Doctrines
The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Konkani name: शास्त्राची विश्वासार्हताय आनी प्रेरणा
Key terms: scripture, prophetic_word, myth, carried_along, interpretation, more_sure
Review routing: Human theologian
पवित्र शास्त्र must never be read as bare शास्त्र (one treatise among the whole Hindu śāstra corpus). कल्पित कथा must be read as ‘fabricated legend’ opposite eyewitness fact, without dismissing Goa’s own Kristapurana-style inculturated narrative tradition. Dual agency of inspiration (genuine human authorship, decisive Spirit-direction) must not collapse into either mechanical dictation or reverence for an inspired devotional poet.
Apostolic Eyewitness Testimony
Konkani name: प्रेषितांची प्रत्यक्षदर्शी साक्ष
Key terms: eyewitness, myth, majesty
Review routing: Human theologian
Peter’s claim to have personally witnessed Christ’s Transfiguration majesty must ground apostolic testimony as verified historical fact, not one more respected invented tale in the manner of Puranic devotional narrative literature familiar to a Goan audience.
False Teachers and Their Judgment
Konkani name: खोटे उपदेशक आनी तांचो न्याय
Key terms: false_teacher, false_prophet, destructive_heresies, tartarus, defilement, sensuality, dominion, blaspheme, children_of_cursing, unstable
Review routing: Human theologian
गुरू is deliberately avoided for false teachers to withhold the cultural dignity of the guru-disciple relationship from condemned figures. नरक risks confusion with karmic-rebirth naraka realms; विटाळ is explicitly forbidden for defilement (ritual/caste-pollution register); शाप risks confusion with Puranic sage/deity curse-narratives for ‘children of cursing.‘
Patience of God’s Timing
Konkani name: देवाच्या वेळेची सहनशीलता
Key terms: patience_of_god, delay, one_day_as_a_thousand_years
Review routing: Human theologian
सहनशीलता must be purposeful, redemptive forbearance aimed at repentance, not a fatalistic or karmic ‘waiting out’ of consequences, and must be kept distinct from धीर (human ὑπομονή, ch. 1) so the two Greek concepts are not merged.
Repentance as the Goal of God’s Patience
Konkani name: देवाच्या सहनशीलतेचें फळ: पश्चात्ताप
Key terms: repentance
Review routing: Human theologian
पश्चात्ताप must be read as a Spirit-enabled reorientation of heart and direction granted through grace, not assimilated to prāyaścitta, the ritual expiation performed in regional Hindu practice to discharge accumulated karmic guilt.
Growing in Christian Virtue
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ती सद्गुणांनी वाडप
Key terms: virtue, self_control, steadfastness_human, godliness, brotherly_love, love, knowledge, full_knowledge, spotless_and_blameless, grow
Review routing: Human theologian
The virtue chain (सद्गुण, आत्मसंयम, ज्ञान, धीर, देवभक्ती, बंधुप्रेम, प्रेम) must be read as Spirit-produced fruit flowing from faith and grace, not self-earned merit through austerity (tapasyā), yogic self-mastery technique, or accumulated good conduct (guṇa-sādhanā).
Divine Calling and Election
Konkani name: देवाचें बोलावणें आनी निवड
Key terms: called, calling, election
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the baseline caution: God’s sovereign call and choice must be distinguished from karma/fate-determined destiny (नशीब/प्रारब्ध), a common frame in regional Hindu religious idiom for ‘confirming’ one’s standing.
Godliness and Reverence toward God
Konkani name: देवभक्ती
Key terms: godliness, ungodly_person
Review routing: Human theologian
देवभक्ती is retained only with a mandatory exclusivity qualifier at first occurrence (‘एकच खरो देवाची भक्ती’), since the baseline already flags भक्ती-root terms for Goan Hindu temple-deity devotional risk (Shantadurga, Mangueshi, Mahalasa); it must never be read as one devotional stream among several bhakti objects.
Knowledge of God and Christ
Konkani name: देव आनी ख्रिस्ताचें ज्ञान
Key terms: knowledge, full_knowledge
Review routing: Human theologian
ज्ञान is the central term of the Hindu jñāna-mārga, the path of intellectual/mystical self-realization of ātman-Brahman identity understood as itself leading to mokṣa. A mandatory note must clarify biblical knowledge here is moral and relational acquaintance with the personal God and Christ, not metaphysical self-realization.
False Liberty and Bondage to Corruption
Konkani name: खोटें स्वातंत्र्य आनी भ्रष्टतेची गुलामगिरी
Key terms: freedom, corruption, desire
Review routing: Human theologian
स्वातंत्र्य is required; मुक्ती/मोक्ष are explicitly forbidden, exactly per the baseline salvation rule, because either would collapse Peter’s deliberate irony (a false promise of freedom concealing real bondage) into language evoking the Hindu soteriological goal of liberation from rebirth.
New Creation and Cosmic Renewal
Konkani name: नवी सृष्टी आनी विश्वाची नवी घडण
Key terms: new_heavens_and_new_earth, elements, dissolve, fire, creation
Review routing: Human theologian
Hindu cosmology’s cyclical creation-dissolution scheme (kalpas, yugas, pralaya followed by Brahmā’s renewed creation) is a genuinely close structural parallel; a mandatory note must clarify 2 Peter describes a single, final, linear renewal after one decisive judgment, not an endlessly repeating cycle.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Historical Examples of Divine Judgment
Konkani name: देवाच्या न्यायाचीं ऐतिहासिक उदाहरणां
Key terms: preacher_of_righteousness
Review routing: Native speaker review
The examples of the fallen angels, the flood (Noah), and Sodom and Gomorrah (Lot) require brief narrative context given generally low Old Testament literacy among the target audience; no major syncretism risk beyond unfamiliarity.
Moral Defilement of False Teachers
Konkani name: खोट्या उपदेशकांची भ्रष्टता
Key terms: defilement, sensuality, corruption
Review routing: Native speaker review
भ्रष्टता must stay in the moral register throughout, never drifting toward the ritual/caste-purity register carried by विटाळ, which is explicitly forbidden for this concept.
Scoffers’ Denial of the Return
Konkani name: पुनरागमनाक नाकारपी चेष्टेखोर
Key terms: scoffer, parousia, creation
Review routing: Native speaker review
चेष्टेखोर must convey deliberate, willful doctrinal denial of Christ’s return, not honest philosophical skepticism or ordinary doubt.
Proper Interpretation and Guarding of Scripture
Konkani name: शास्त्राचो योग्य अर्थ आनी रक्षण
Key terms: interpretation, twist_distort, hard_to_understand, scripture
Review routing: Native speaker review
Two distinct risks must both be guarded: the origin of prophecy is never a prophet’s private interpretation (1:20), and Scripture’s later meaning can be twisted/distorted by the unstable (3:16); both must protect पवित्र शास्त्र’s unique authority against reduction to ‘a shastra among shastras.‘
Servant Identity and Apostolic Ministry
Konkani name: सेवक आनी प्रेषितपणाची वळख
Key terms: servant, apostle
Review routing: Native speaker review
सेवक is preferred over दास, which carries the Hindu bhakti dāsya-bhāva (devotional ‘servant-mood’ toward a chosen personal deity) rather than simple humble ownership by Christ.
The Holy Commandment and Apostolic Teaching
Konkani name: पवित्र आज्ञा आनी प्रेषितांची शिकवण
Key terms: commandment, proverb
Review routing: Native speaker review
आज्ञा here names the singular apostolic gospel command delivered to believers, distinct in scope from नियमशास्त्र (the Mosaic law-code as a whole); care is needed so readers do not conflate the two.
Low Risk Doctrines
Proverbial Wisdom in Warning
Konkani name: म्हणीच्या रुपांत शिकवण
Key terms: proverb
Review routing: Automated review
Standard proverb usage illustrating the false teachers’ relapse into corruption; minimal doctrinal ambiguity.
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