Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis
This Language Package’s doctrine_risk_registry.json tracks 40 doctrines across Romans 1–16, each assigned a risk tier that drives Phase 2 review routing.
Risk tier summary
| Tier | Count | Review routing | Example doctrines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 7 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Salvation, Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Lordship of Christ, Messianic Promise |
| High | 23 | Human theologian | Gospel, Divine Calling, Grace, Faith, Sanctification, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Unity of Jews and Gentiles |
| Medium | 7 | Native speaker review | Apostleship, Prayer and Intercession, Spiritual Gifts, Mission to the Nations, Evangelism |
| Low | 3 | Automated review only | Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do
Unlike languages with a settled Christian translation tradition, Maithili’s Critical-risk cluster is driven less by an existing wrong word already fixed in common usage, and more by the absence of any settled word at all, combined with two live competing frameworks: generic Hindu karma/rebirth vocabulary, and Mithila’s own locally rooted Ramayana narrative (Sita’s birthplace, the Sita-Ram marriage, and the Sita virtue-exemplar). A translator defaulting to “whatever sounds natural and devotional” in Maithili is more likely than in most other languages in this pipeline to land on a term that is regionally specific and doctrinally wrong, rather than a generic pan-Hindu term that a reviewer would catch more easily.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (30 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Maithili is fluent and even regionally apt without catching that it draws on Mithila’s own Ramayana-rooted theology rather than biblical doctrine. Native speaker review is sufficient for Medium-risk doctrines, where the concern is cultural fit and register rather than doctrinal contradiction.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
Maithili name: ख्रीष्टक ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: son of God, declared son, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Co-equal divine nature, not divine promotion or an elevated devotee/avatar-figure. Must not be softened to ‘a great and holy man’.
Incarnation
Maithili name: देहधारण
Key terms: flesh, seed of David, son born, came in flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature, once. Never अवतार. This is the single highest-stakes term in Maithili because Mithila is the Ramayana’s own geographic setting — Sita’s mythological birthplace and the site of the Sita-Ram marriage — making avatar-descent theology a locally ‘owned’ story rather than distant background, and raising the risk that देहधारण is heard as one more chapter in that same story rather than a categorically different, unique event.
Lordship of Christ
Maithili name: ख्रीष्टक प्रभुत्व
Key terms: lord, lord jesus, jesus is lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 — ‘Jesus is Lord’ is the salvation confession, rendered with the honorific verb form (छथि) appropriate to God. Exclusive, supreme Lordship, not one revered figure among the region’s several devotional objects.
Messianic Promise
Maithili name: मसीहाई प्रतिज्ञा
Key terms: messiah, christ, anointed, promised
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus. Must not be assimilated to Ram or Krishna as awaited/celebrated avatar-figures within Mithila’s own Vaishnava devotional tradition.
Resurrection of Christ
Maithili name: ख्रीष्टक पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: raised, resurrection, from the dead, raised from death
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection. पुनरुत्थान, never पुनर्जन्म. Always distinguish from rebirth within the samsara cycle in translator notes.
Salvation
Maithili name: उद्धार
Key terms: salvation, saved, save, deliverance
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Never मुक्ति or मोक्ष. Salvation is reconciliation with a personal God through Christ, not release from the rebirth cycle sought through Vaishnava or Shaiva devotional practice.
Sonship of Christ
Maithili name: ख्रीष्टक पुत्रत्व
Key terms: son of God, his son, God’s son
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship. The Son is eternal, not born within time as royal sons are born in the region’s own dynastic narratives (e.g. Ram’s birth to Dasharath).
High Risk Doctrines
Adoption into God’s Family
Maithili name: परमेश्वरक परिवारमे पुत्रत्व प्रदान
Key terms: adoption, spirit of adoption, sons, children of God, abba
Review routing: Human theologian
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; guard against any reading that treats adopted children as lower-status relative to natural-born heirs, a live concern in a culture with strong lineage-inheritance customs.
Assurance of Salvation
Maithili name: उद्धारक निश्चय
Key terms: nothing can separate, who shall separate, no condemnation, more than conquerors
Review routing: Human theologian
Assurance based on God’s unchanging character, not karmic or fate-based uncertainty (प्रारब्ध) about one’s next life or standing.
Christian Identity in Christ
Maithili name: ख्रीष्टमे ख्रीष्टीय पहचान
Key terms: in Christ, in Christ Jesus, united with Christ, dead to sin alive to God
Review routing: Human theologian
Identity located in union with Christ, not caste lineage, Panjikaran-verified ancestry, or accumulated devotional merit.
Davidic Covenant
Maithili name: दाऊदक वाचा
Key terms: seed of David, David, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept exists in Mithila’s own kingdom-narrative tradition (the House of Janak).
Divine Calling
Maithili name: परमेश्वरक बजाओल जाएब
Key terms: called, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call must be distinguished from human religious seeking and from karma/fate-determined destiny (प्रारब्ध), both deeply embedded in everyday Maithili religious idiom.
Effectual Calling
Maithili name: प्रभावी बजाओल जाएब
Key terms: called, calling, election, chosen
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not karma-determined destiny (प्रारब्ध) or impersonal fate.
Faith
Maithili name: विश्वास
Key terms: faith, believe, belief, trust
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not the region’s Ram-Sita or Shiva bhakti devotional reverence, however sincere.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Maithili name: भविष्यवाणीक पूर्ति
Key terms: prophecy, promised, foretold, scriptures say
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern (yuga cycles) in which a deity periodically descends to restore dharma, as in the region’s own Ram-avatar narrative.
Gospel
Maithili name: सुसमाचार
Key terms: gospel, good news
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be distinguished from ordinary good news. Because Maithili has no long-settled Christian translation tradition to anchor this term, reviewers must confirm it reads as a weighty, unique proclamation rather than casual news, and not as an uncritical Hindi transplant.
Grace
Maithili name: अनुग्रह
Key terms: grace, unmerited, gift, given freely
Review routing: Human theologian
Unmerited favor directly contradicts a karma-merit worldview and must also resist being explained through Sita’s self-sacrificial virtue, which is an achieved-merit exemplar rather than a picture of unearned favor.
Humanity of Christ
Maithili name: ख्रीष्टक मानवता
Key terms: born of the seed of David, flesh, human
Review routing: Human theologian
Real, physical human nature, not a temporary divine appearance as in some Puranic avatar narratives.
Inspiration of Scripture
Maithili name: शास्त्रक प्रेरणा
Key terms: scriptures, holy scriptures, prophets
Review routing: Human theologian
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the devotional authority Mithila grants to Vidyapati’s poetry and to the Ramayana/Puranic narrative tradition that supplies the region’s own sacred stories. Biblical inspiration means God moved human authors to write exactly what he intended, a distinct claim from revered devotional literature.
Obedience of Faith
Maithili name: विश्वासक आज्ञाकारिता
Key terms: obedience of faith, obedience, faith-produced obedience
Review routing: Human theologian
Obedience flowing from faith, not duty-bound household compliance (कर्तव्य पालन), a concept with strong resonance in Mithila’s dharma-ordered family and marriage customs.
Peace with God
Maithili name: परमेश्वरक सङ्ग शान्ति
Key terms: peace with God, peace, peace through justification
Review routing: Human theologian
Relational covenant peace through justification, not the domestic-harmony ideal associated with the celebrated Sita-Ram household.
Power of God for Salvation
Maithili name: उद्धारक हेतु परमेश्वरक सामर्थ्य
Key terms: power of God, God’s power
Review routing: Human theologian
सामर्थ्य required; never शक्ति, which carries strong Shakta-goddess associations in a region with active Durga/Kali worship traditions.
Providence
Maithili name: परमेश्वरक विधान
Key terms: all things work together, God works, foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive care, not impersonal fate or destiny (प्रारब्ध). Romans 8:28 is especially vulnerable to a fatalistic reading given how deeply प्रारब्ध is embedded in everyday Maithili speech.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Maithili name: पवित्र जनक बजाओल जाएब
Key terms: saints, holy ones, called to be holy
Review routing: Human theologian
All believers are saints; not an ascetic elite or a gendered virtue-exemplar category modeled on Sita. Use पवित्र जन, not संत or सती.
Sanctification
Maithili name: पवित्रीकरण
Key terms: sanctification, holiness, set apart, holy living
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit’s work of making believers holy, not the region’s संस्कार purification rites or lineage-purity concerns tied to Panjikaran.
Separation unto God’s Service
Maithili name: परमेश्वरक सेवाक हेतु अलग कएल
Key terms: set apart, separated, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
Must not be confused with the region’s monastic and ascetic renunciation traditions attached to Mithila’s Shaiva and Vaishnava maths (monastic centers). Biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining fully engaged in ordinary life.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Maithili name: यहूदी आ अन्यजातिक एकता
Key terms: Jew and Gentile, no distinction, one body, olive tree
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly challenges caste and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy embedded in Maithil Brahmin social structure. Must translate with theological clarity, not soften the equalizing claim.
Universal Human Accountability
Maithili name: सार्वभौमिक मानवीय उत्तरदायित्व
Key terms: all have sinned, no one is righteous, no distinction, all are accountable
Review routing: Human theologian
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy. Retain universal language without softening.
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Maithili name: सुसमाचारक सार्वभौमिक व्याप्ति
Key terms: everyone who believes, all who call, no distinction, Jew and Gentile
Review routing: Human theologian
No caste or lineage barrier to the gospel. This has particular force in Mithila, where the Panjikaran genealogical-registry system makes caste-lineage verification a live social practice; retain unqualified universality.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship
Maithili name: प्रेरितत्व
Key terms: apostle
Review routing: Native speaker review
Risk: reducing apostleship to a generic pandit or genealogist-scholar role, given the outsized cultural authority of the Maithil Brahmin pandit as custodian of the region’s Panjikaran lineage registry.
Christ-Centered Ministry
Maithili name: ख्रीष्ट-केन्द्रित सेवकाई
Key terms: what Christ has accomplished through me, in Christ Jesus, minister of Christ
Review routing: Native speaker review
Ministry done in Christ’s name, by his power, for his glory, not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel or generic pandit-style religious instruction.
Church as God’s People
Maithili name: परमेश्वरक प्रजाक रूपमे मण्डली
Key terms: body of Christ, one body, church, saints, assembly
Review routing: Native speaker review
New covenant community, not a ritual institution modeled on the region’s math (monastic) structures or a caste-segregated assembly.
Evangelism
Maithili name: सुसमाचार प्रचार
Key terms: preach, proclaim, evangelize, send, how will they hear
Review routing: Native speaker review
Given the region’s strong Vaishnava/Shaiva devotional identity and comparatively small Christian presence, evangelism must be framed as gentle proclamation and witness, not confrontation.
Kingdom Mission
Maithili name: राज्यक मिशन
Key terms: kingdom of God, righteousness peace and joy, advance the kingdom
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or dynastic kingdom — a sensitive association given Mithila’s own historic royal-kingdom identity.
Mission to the Nations
Maithili name: जातिसभक हेतु मिशन
Key terms: nations, gentiles, all peoples, to the ends of the earth
Review routing: Native speaker review
Because Mithila has a comparatively thin history of mission-institution presence compared to other regions in this pipeline, ‘mission’ vocabulary must be introduced and explained rather than assumed familiar; prefer सुसमाचार प्रचार (gospel proclamation).
Prayer and Intercession
Maithili name: प्रार्थना आ मध्यस्थता
Key terms: prayer, intercession, pray, groan, spirit intercedes
Review routing: Native speaker review
Direct access to God in Christ’s name; distinguish from ritual worship (puja) directed at an image or shrine.
Spiritual Gifts
Maithili name: आत्मिक वरदान
Key terms: spiritual gift, gift, grace gift, measure of faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Spirit-given enablements, not merit-earned boons (वरदान) granted for austerity or devotion.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship
Maithili name: ख्रीष्टीय सङ्गति
Key terms: fellowship, share, participate, community
Review routing: Automated review
Shared participation in Christ, not merely social or caste-community association.
Mutual Edification
Maithili name: पारस्परिक उन्नति
Key terms: build up, edify, encourage one another, strengthen
Review routing: Automated review
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Maithili name: धन्यवाद
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks, grateful, thank God
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term. Minor risk of over-ritualization.
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