Doctrine Analysis
11 — Doctrine Analysis: Acts 1–28 (Full-Book Coverage)
Curriculum: Acts
Core passage (theological anchor, not scope): Acts 2:1-41 (Pentecost)
Governing rule: This document is fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json — same doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing. It extends that registry into a chapter-by-chapter matrix demonstrating full-book coverage per the PRD Phase 1 mandate: every chapter of Acts, first to last, is addressed below. Chapters that introduce no new doctrinal weight are explicitly marked “reviewed — reuses established doctrine,” never silently omitted.
Part 1 — Master Doctrine Matrix
This table restates every doctrine in doctrine_risk_registry.json with its risk tier, book-wide supporting passages, a condensed translation risk statement, and review routing. Doctrine names, tiers, and routing are copied exactly from the registry; nothing here contradicts it.
| # | Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Translation Risk (condensed) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | Critical | 1:5,8; 2:1-13,17-18; 8:14-19; 10:44-48; 19:1-7 | Wind/fire imagery must not be equated with থাওয়াই in its populated Sanamahi sense (ancestral/Umang Lai spirits); tongues (লোন) must be intelligible human language, never a maibi’s ecstatic trance-utterance; democratized prophecy (2:17-18) must not be restricted to a ritual-specialist class as the maiba/maibi office is restricted. | Human theologian |
| 2 | The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | Critical | 1:8; 2:39; 10:1-48; 11:1-18; 13:46-48; 15:1-29; 28:28 | Abolition of ceremonial food/purity boundaries must not be absorbed into regional purity categories (Lai Haraoba, temple ritual purity, caste-inflected food purity); universal scope must not be softened given inter-community sensitivities. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Unity of Jews and Gentiles / God’s Impartiality | High | 10:34-35; 11:18; 15:6-29 | Must be taught as a soteriological resolution, not mapped directly onto contemporary Manipur ethnic-community relations, which address a different (social/political) kind of division. | Human theologian |
| 4 | Repentance and Baptism | Critical | 2:38; 3:19; 8:36-38; 9:18; 16:30-33; 19:1-5; 22:16; 26:20 | Repentance ≠ prāyaścitta-style ritual atonement or Lai Haraoba ritual purification. Baptism ≠ Vaishnava snana or Sanamahi purification bathing; a public, once-for-all identification with Christ. John’s baptism vs. baptism into the Lord Jesus’ name (19:1-5) must remain a real, taught distinction. | Human theologian |
| 5 | The Church as Community | High | 2:42-47; 4:32-37; 6:1-6; 16:15,33; 20:17,28 | Never মন্দির or উমাং লাই থাবা. Voluntary Spirit-produced sharing (2:44-45; 4:32) is distinct from clan (yumnak) communal obligation; household baptism is individual faith-response, not automatic lineage-status transfer. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Apostolic Authority and Miracles | High | 1:2,25-26; 2:22,43; 4:33; 5:12; 6:8; 14:3; 15:12; 20:27 | Miracles authenticate God’s sent messenger; must stay categorically distinct from a maiba/maibi’s ritual displays; never শক্তি. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from Occult Power | Critical | 8:9-24; 13:6-11; 16:16-18; 19:11-20; 26:18 | Highest-salience collision risk in the curriculum: the divination/python spirit closely parallels the maibi’s Lai Haraoba trance-oracle role. Scripture’s verdict is unambiguous exorcism/condemnation, not negotiation or veneration. Satan’s dominion must not be assimilated to Sanamahi’s morally ambivalent, propitiable spirit-categories. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Persecution and Bold Witness | High | 4:13,29,31; 5:29,41; 7:54-60; 12:1-17; 16:22-25; 21:27-36 | Apostolic witness (সাক্ষী) is deliberate, rational, historical eyewitness testimony — sharply distinct from a maibi’s mediated trance-state oracular disclosure. Stephen’s death is the paradigmatic model. | Human theologian |
| 9 | Conversion of Paul | Critical | 9:1-19; 22:3-21; 26:9-18 | The risen, glorified Lord’s direct encounter with Saul must retain মপু ইবুংগো’s full exclusive-Lordship weight; “chosen instrument” extends election doctrine into apostolic mission; the Way-persecutor-to-proclaimer arc is the book’s conversion paradigm. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Justification apart from the Law | Critical | 13:38-39; 15:1-11,24-29; 16:3; 21:20-25 | 13:39 is the Acts locus classicus, directly parallel to Romans 3-4; অচুম্বা ওইহনবা and য়াথাং must render identically to the Romans package. Jerusalem Council’s grace-not-law resolution (15:11) is the doctrine’s narrative climax. | Human theologian |
| 11 | The Great Commission Fulfilled | High | 1:8; 13:47; 26:23; 28:23,30-31 | Frame gospel advance “to the ends of the earth” as the church’s own Spirit-initiated calling, not a foreign or ethnically-coded project, given colonial-era mission entanglement and present inter-community sensitivities. 28:31’s “without hindrance” is the book’s deliberate closing thematic seal. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Ascension and Enthronement of Christ | Critical | 1:9-11; 2:33-35; 7:55-56 | Christ’s bodily, historical, visible ascension/enthronement must be sharply distinguished from Krishna’s Vaikuntha/Goloka departure-return within an avatar-leela cycle. 2:34-35’s dual referent (Father and Messiah, both মপু ইবুংগো) requires a mandatory translator note. | Human theologian |
| 13 | Deity of Christ and His Distinct Titles | Critical | 3:13-15,26; 4:27,30; 7:56; 9:20; 13:33 | New Christological titles (Holy and Righteous One, Founder/Pioneer of Life, Servant, Son of Man) must stay terminologically distinct from each other and from Son of God/Lord; never softened into avatar-status or a devotee’s dāsya-bhāva servant posture. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | Critical | 2:24-32; 4:33; 13:30-37; 17:31-32; 23:6,8; 24:15,21; 26:8,23 | Never পুনর্জন্ম. Tabitha’s and Eutychus’s restorations-to-mortal-life must be explicitly distinguished from Christ’s unique, final, immortal resurrection and from the future general resurrection. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Lordship of Christ | Critical | 2:21,36; 9:5; 10:36; 16:31; 22:8,10 | Never ঠাকুর. 2:36 requires a mandatory note against (a) adoptionism and (b) any analogy to a deity-installation ritual (e.g. Krishna-image abhisheka); the resurrection-enthronement is unique and historical, not periodic-ritual. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility | High | 2:23; 4:27-28; 17:26; 27:22-25,34 | Christ’s death as simultaneously human sin and God’s sovereign plan (2:23) must affirm both without collapsing into ৱাইফম (impersonal fate); the same caution applies to Acts’ repeated providential “coincidences.” | Human theologian |
| 17 | Election and Apostolic Commissioning | High | 1:24-26; 9:15; 13:2; 15:7,22,25 | God’s sovereign, personal choice (Matthias, Paul, Barnabas) is distinct from ৱাইফম and from Pakhangba-lineage royal-divine selection. Casting lots (1:26) is a bounded single historical incident, not a commended divinatory method. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Universal Human Accountability and Final Judgment | High | 17:30-31; 24:25 | Righteousness, self-control, and coming judgment as universal human accountability; full universal scope must not be softened, per the baseline’s inter-community-sensitivity caution. | Human theologian |
| 19 | Church Governance and Leadership | Medium | 6:1-6; 14:23; 15:2-29; 20:17,28 | Establishes durable elder/overseer/shepherd/deacon vocabulary distinct from apostleship; low collision risk but must avoid caste-hierarchical inflection. | Native speaker review |
| 20 | Fulfillment of Prophecy and Messianic Identity | High | 2:16-21,25-31; 3:18,22-25; 13:27,32-37 | Linear historical fulfillment in Jesus, not a cyclical avatar-sequence pattern (further divine descents conceptually open in Vaishnava theology); Messiah is exclusive to this one Jewish OT category. | Human theologian |
| 21 | Grace | Critical | 4:33; 11:23; 14:26; 15:11,40; 18:27; 20:24,32 | 15:11’s climactic “saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus” must resist collapsing into কৃপা’s bhakti-responsive framework; grace is unconditioned and resolves the whole law/circumcision controversy on that basis. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Faith | High | 3:16; 16:31; 20:21; 26:18 | Object of faith always named as Jesus/the Lord; never ভক্তি. | Human theologian |
| 23 | Salvation | Critical | 2:21,40,47; 4:12; 16:30-31; 28:28 | Never মোক্ষ or devotional-union-with-Krishna framing. 4:12’s “no other name” retains unqualified exclusivity against any Krishna/Umang-Lai-alongside-Jesus reading. | Human theologian |
| 24 | Sainthood and Sanctification | High | 9:13,32,41; 20:32; 26:10,18 | All believers are corporate saints; must not narrow to a Vaishnava renunciant class (গোসাঞি) or a maiba/maibi-parallel specialist role. | Human theologian |
| 25 | Providence | High | 12:5-17; 16:6-10; 17:26; 18:9-10; 23:11; 27:22-25,34 | God’s personal, purposive care across repeated deliverances/guidance; never ৱাইফম. The shipwreck narrative (ch.27) is specifically vulnerable to an impersonal-fate-survival misreading. | Human theologian |
| 26 | Mutual Edification and Fellowship | Low | 2:42,44; 4:32; 11:23; 14:22; 15:32; 20:1-2 | Standard vocabulary for encouragement and shared life; no significant doctrinal risk. | Automated review |
| 27 | Thanksgiving | Low | 27:35; 28:15 | Standard gratitude vocabulary; minor risk of over-ritualization. | Automated review |
| 28 | Household Faith and Family Conversion | Medium | 16:15,33; 18:8 | Each household member’s own faith-response is the basis for baptism; avoid conflating with automatic yumnak lineage-status transfer. | Native speaker review |
| 29 | Civil Authority and Legal Process | Medium | 16:35-39; 22:25-29; 24:1-27; 25:1-12 | Paul’s principled navigation of Roman legal process models “obey God rather than men” (5:29) without inciting unnecessary civil conflict. | Native speaker review |
| 30 | Vows and Jewish Custom under Grace | Medium | 18:18; 21:20-26 | Paul’s continued respect for Jewish custom without implying it is salvation-required; permitted cultural continuity, not doctrinal necessity. | Native speaker review |
| 31 | Atonement of Christ | Critical | 20:28; 26:18 | Christ’s unique, historical, once-for-all substitutionary sacrifice, distinguished explicitly from yajna/homa offerings or Sanamahi sacrificial rites; connects directly to Romans 3:25’s atonement/propitiation doctrine. | Human theologian |
Corrected risk-tier count (by individual doctrine entry, for internal audit): Critical: 13 · High: 12 · Medium: 4 · Low: 2 · Total: 31 doctrines, 25 requiring human theologian review, 4 requiring native speaker review, 2 automated-only.
Part 2 — Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Coverage
Every chapter of Acts is addressed below. Chapters that introduce no doctrinal content beyond what an earlier chapter already established are explicitly marked “reviewed — reuses established doctrine,” per the full-book-coverage mandate; they are never silently omitted.
Chapter 1 — Ascension, Waiting, and the First Election
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension and Enthronement of Christ | 1:9-11 | Critical | Bodily, visible, historical ascension; not a Vaishnava avatar-departure. | Human theologian |
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 1:5,8 | Critical | ”Baptized with the Holy Spirit” anticipates ch.2; must not preview any trance/possession framing. | Human theologian |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | 1:8 | High | ”To the ends of the earth” as the church’s own calling, not a colonial-coded project. | Human theologian |
| Election and Apostolic Commissioning | 1:24-26 | High | Casting lots is a single bounded historical incident, not an ongoing divinatory method. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 1:2,25-26 | High | Judas’s vacated “apostleship” (1:25) establishes the office’s unique, commissioned nature. | Human theologian |
Chapter 2 — Pentecost (Core Passage: Acts 2:1-41)
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 2:1-13 | Critical | Wind/fire/tongues; tongues must be literal intelligible human languages, never maibi trance-utterance. Mandatory translator note at every occurrence. | Human theologian |
| Fulfillment of Prophecy and Messianic Identity | 2:16-21,25-31 | High | Joel’s “last days” outpouring democratizes prophecy across all believers — must not be restricted to a maiba/maibi-parallel specialist class. | Human theologian |
| Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility | 2:23 | High | Christ’s death as both human guilt and God’s determined plan — hold both without collapsing into ৱাইফম. | Human theologian |
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 2:24-32 | Critical | Never পুনর্জন্ম; bodily, historical, once-for-all. | Human theologian |
| Ascension and Enthronement of Christ | 2:33-35 | Critical | Dual referent of “Lord” (Father/Messiah, both মপু ইবুংগো) requires mandatory translator note. | Human theologian |
| Lordship of Christ | 2:21,36 | Critical | ”God has made him both Lord and Christ” — mandatory note against adoptionism and against any deity-installation-ritual analogy. | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Baptism | 2:38 | Critical | Not ritual atonement or purification bathing; inward reorientation plus public, once-for-all identification with Christ. | Human theologian |
| Salvation | 2:21,40,47 | Critical | ”Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord” — unqualified, never মোক্ষ-framed. | Human theologian |
| The Church as Community | 2:42-47 | High | Devotion to teaching/fellowship/breaking bread/prayer; “all things common” (2:44-45) is voluntary Spirit-produced sharing, not yumnak obligation. | Human theologian |
| Mutual Edification and Fellowship | 2:42,44 | Low | Standard shared-life vocabulary. | Automated review |
Chapter 3 — Healing at the Temple Gate; Peter’s Second Sermon
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deity of Christ and His Distinct Titles | 3:13-15,26 | Critical | ”Holy and Righteous One,” “Founder/Pioneer of Life” — new titles requiring careful, mutually distinct rendering; never a devotional posture-title. | Human theologian |
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 3:15 | Critical | Christ as “Founder of life,” raised from the dead — foundational resurrection claim. | Human theologian |
| Faith | 3:16 | High | Faith in Jesus’ name produces the healing; object of faith explicit, never ভক্তি. | Human theologian |
| Fulfillment of Prophecy and Messianic Identity | 3:18,22-25 | High | Prophet-like-Moses typology; linear fulfillment, not an open avatar sequence. | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Baptism | 3:19 | Critical | ”Repent… that times of refreshing may come” — future consummation, not cyclical yuga-renewal. | Human theologian |
Chapter 4 — Persecution Begins; Boldness and Common Life
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation | 4:12 | Critical | ”No other name” — unqualified exclusivity against a Krishna/Umang-Lai-alongside-Jesus reading. | Human theologian |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 4:13,29,31 | High | ঠাঠোন্না ঙাংবা (boldness) despite Sanhedrin threat; rational, public testimony. | Human theologian |
| Deity of Christ and His Distinct Titles | 4:27,30 | Critical | God’s “holy Servant Jesus” — Isaianic Servant title, distinct from dāsya-bhāva devotee-servanthood. | Human theologian |
| Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility | 4:27-28 | High | Herod/Pilate/Gentiles/Israel acted, yet God’s plan was accomplished — sovereignty and responsibility both affirmed. | Human theologian |
| The Church as Community | 4:32-37 | High | ”All things in common” as voluntary Spirit-produced generosity, not yumnak communal obligation. | Human theologian |
| Grace | 4:33 | Critical | ”Great grace was upon them all” — unconditioned favor accompanying apostolic witness. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 4:33 | High | Apostles’ testimony to the resurrection given “with great power.” | Human theologian |
Chapter 5 — Ananias and Sapphira; Apostles before the Council
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 5:3,9,32 | Critical | Lying “to the Holy Spirit” affirms the Spirit’s full personal deity — never reducible to bare থাওয়াই. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 5:12 | High | Signs and wonders “through the hands of the apostles” authenticate their unique commission. | Human theologian |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 5:21,27,29,34,41; 5:29,41 | High | ”Obey God rather than men”; rejoicing under suffering — the model for Roman-authority engagement developed further in later chapters. | Human theologian |
Chapter 6 — Appointment of the Seven
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church Governance and Leadership | 6:1-6 | Medium | Deacon/service office (thouroi/sebok) distinct from apostleship; avoid caste-hierarchical inflection. | Native speaker review |
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 6:3,5 | Critical | Stephen and the Seven “full of the Spirit” — Spirit-empowerment for practical service, not oracular trance. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 6:8 | High | Stephen’s own signs and wonders extend apostolic-pattern authentication to a non-apostle. | Human theologian |
Chapter 7 — Stephen’s Speech and Martyrdom
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deity of Christ and His Distinct Titles | 7:56 | Critical | ”Son of Man” — distinct Danielic title, must not collapse into তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা (Son of God). | Human theologian |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 7:54-60 | High | Stephen’s death is the paradigm case linking সাক্ষী-vocabulary to costly, faithful proclamation under threat. | Human theologian |
| Ascension and Enthronement of Christ | 7:55-56 | Critical | Stephen’s vision of the enthroned, standing Son of Man reinforces the ascension doctrine. | Human theologian |
Chapter 8 — Persecution Scatters the Church; Philip; Simon Magus; the Ethiopian
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from Occult Power | 8:9-24 | Critical | Simon Magus’s sorcery explicitly condemned and its money rejected; occult power for personal prestige is categorically distinct from Spirit-given gifts. | Human theologian |
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 8:14-19 | Critical | Laying on of hands for Spirit-reception among Samaritans; distinct from a maiba’s ritual touch-healing gesture. | Human theologian |
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 8:25,35,40 | Critical | Philip’s gospel proclamation extends beyond Jerusalem, foreshadowing full Gentile inclusion. | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Baptism | 8:36-38 | Critical | The Ethiopian eunuch’s baptism — immediate, voluntary, faith-based, not a repeatable ritual washing. | Human theologian |
Chapter 9 — Saul’s Conversion; Peter’s Ministry (Aeneas, Tabitha)
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversion of Paul | 9:1-19 | Critical | Direct encounter with the risen, glorified Lord; “the Way” (9:2) as this specific movement, not one bhakti-mārga path among several. | Human theologian |
| Election and Apostolic Commissioning | 9:15 | High | ”Chosen instrument” extends election doctrine into apostolic mission-commissioning. | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Baptism | 9:18 | Critical | Saul’s baptism follows scales falling from his eyes — physical sign of spiritual illumination. | Human theologian |
| Deity of Christ and His Distinct Titles | 9:20 | Critical | Saul immediately proclaims Jesus as “Son of God” — full deity, not an honorary or adoptive sonship. | Human theologian |
| Sainthood and Sanctification | 9:13,32,41 | High | ”Saints” (Tabitha’s community) as ordinary believers corporately, never a গোসাঞি-parallel ascetic class. | Human theologian |
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 9:36-41 (Tabitha) | Critical | Tabitha’s restoration-to-mortal-life is explicitly a different category from Christ’s unique, final resurrection; mandatory distinguishing note. | Human theologian |
Chapter 10 — Cornelius; Gentile Inclusion
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 10:1-48 | Critical | Cornelius narrative is the doctrine’s centerpiece; God-fearer background bridges Jewish monotheism and full inclusion. | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles / God’s Impartiality | 10:34-35 | High | ”God shows no partiality” — theological principle, not a direct template for present-day inter-community relations. | Human theologian |
| Lordship of Christ | 10:36 | Critical | ”He is Lord of all” — universal, exclusive Lordship extended explicitly to Gentiles. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 10:38 | High | God anointed Jesus “with the Holy Spirit and power” — power_of_god vocabulary, never শক্তি. | Human theologian |
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 10:44-48 | Critical | Spirit falls on Gentiles exactly as at Pentecost — validates full Gentile inclusion without a second-class variant of the Spirit’s work. | Human theologian |
Chapter 11 — Peter’s Defense; Antioch; the Name “Christian”
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 11:1-18 | Critical | Jerusalem church’s acceptance of Gentile inclusion; “God has granted repentance that leads to life” extended explicitly to Gentiles. | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles / God’s Impartiality | 11:18 | High | Corporate, not merely individual, acknowledgment of God’s impartial grace. | Human theologian |
| Grace | 11:23 | Critical | Barnabas sees “the grace of God” at Antioch — unconditioned divine favor evidenced in changed lives. | Human theologian |
| The Church as Community | 11:26 | High | The disciples are first called “Christians” (ক্রিস্তান) at Antioch — a new, positive communal identity marker. | Human theologian |
Chapter 12 — Peter’s Imprisonment and Deliverance
Explicitly reviewed: no new doctrine introduced. Reuses Providence (12:5-17, God’s personal deliverance of Peter, never ৱাইফম) and the Persecution and Bold Witness framework established in chapters 4–8 (Herod’s persecution, James’s martyrdom, the church’s intercessory prayer per the baseline’s intercession term). Routing: Human theologian (Providence, Persecution — both already Critical/High elsewhere).
Chapter 13 — Antioch Commissioning; First Missionary Journey; Justification Sermon
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justification apart from the Law | 13:38-39 | Critical | Acts’ locus classicus, directly parallel to Romans 3–4; render অচুম্বা ওইহনবা/য়াথাং identically to the Romans baseline. | Human theologian |
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 13:46-48 | Critical | Paul and Barnabas turn formally to the Gentiles after Jewish rejection at Pisidian Antioch. | Human theologian |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | 13:47 | High | ”A light for the Gentiles” — Isaianic Servant-mission language applied to the apostolic mission. | Human theologian |
| Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from Occult Power | 13:6-11 | Critical | Elymas the sorcerer opposed and struck blind — occult opposition to the gospel explicitly judged, not negotiated with. | Human theologian |
| Deity of Christ and His Distinct Titles | 13:33 | Critical | ”You are my Son, today I have begotten you” applied to the resurrection — must not read as an adoptionist origin of Sonship. | Human theologian |
| Fulfillment of Prophecy and Messianic Identity | 13:27,32-37 | High | Linear OT-promise-to-Christ fulfillment, not an open avatar sequence. | Human theologian |
Chapter 14 — Lystra; Paul and Barnabas Refuse Worship
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 14:15 | Critical | Paul/Barnabas refuse worship as gods, redirecting to the “living God” from “vain things” — directly relevant rhetorical pattern for engaging Umang Lai and Vaishnava avatar-worship; teach respectfully but without softening exclusivity. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 14:3 | High | Signs and wonders confirm “the word of his grace.” | Human theologian |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | 14:22 | High | Strengthening disciples for the kingdom “through many tribulations.” | Human theologian |
| Church Governance and Leadership | 14:23 | Medium | Elders appointed in every church — durable local leadership pattern. | Native speaker review |
Chapter 15 — The Jerusalem Council
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justification apart from the Law | 15:1-11,24-29 | Critical | The Council’s central question and resolution; grace, not circumcision/law-keeping, saves. | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles / God’s Impartiality | 15:6-29 | High | Council’s resolution is a soteriological, not ethnic-political, decision. | Human theologian |
| Grace | 15:11,40 | Critical | ”We believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will” — the doctrine’s narrative climax. | Human theologian |
| Church Governance and Leadership | 15:2-29 | Medium | Corporate, binding apostolic decision-making (council decree) as an early model of church governance. | Native speaker review |
Chapter 16 — Lydia; the Philippian Jailer; the Divination Spirit
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from Occult Power | 16:16-18 | Critical | The python/divination spirit’s oracular speech through a human medium is the single highest-salience collision with the maibi’s Lai Haraoba trance role; the spirit is exorcised, not honored. | Human theologian |
| Household Faith and Family Conversion | 16:15,33 | Medium | Lydia’s and the jailer’s household baptisms follow each member’s own faith-response, not automatic yumnak transfer. | Native speaker review |
| Repentance and Baptism | 16:30-33 | Critical | ”What must I do to be saved?” — immediate, personal, faith-based response; distinct from repeatable ritual washing. | Human theologian |
| Faith / Salvation | 16:31 | High/Critical | ”Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” — object of faith named explicitly; never মোক্ষ-framed. | Human theologian |
| Providence | 16:6-10 | High | The Spirit’s guidance/redirection (Macedonian call) as personal governance, not impersonal fate. | Human theologian |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 16:22-25 | High | Paul and Silas beaten and imprisoned, yet praying and singing — bold witness under suffering. | Human theologian |
| Civil Authority and Legal Process | 16:35-39 | Medium | Paul’s appeal to Roman citizenship models principled civil engagement. | Native speaker review |
Chapter 17 — Thessalonica, Berea, and the Areopagus
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 17:23,30 | Critical | The “Unknown God” bridge and “times of ignorance” must never be read as affirming Sanamahi or an Umang Lai deity under another name; Paul’s speech corrects and replaces, not affirms. | Human theologian |
| Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility | 17:26 | High | God “determined allotted periods and boundaries” — personal governance of history, not impersonal fate. | Human theologian |
| Universal Human Accountability and Final Judgment | 17:30-31 | High | God “commands all people everywhere to repent” — full universal scope retained. | Human theologian |
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 17:31-32 | Critical | Resurrection as the guarantee of coming judgment; provokes mixed Athenian reaction — never পুনর্জন্ম. | Human theologian |
Chapter 18 — Corinth; Aquila and Priscilla; Apollos
Explicitly reviewed: no new doctrine introduced. Reuses the Justification apart from the Law / Grace framework (18:27, Apollos “greatly helped those who through grace had believed”) and a minor extension of the Way identity-marker vocabulary (18:26, taught “the Way of God more accurately”), alongside the Civil Authority and Legal Process framework (18:12-17, Gallio’s tribunal) and Vows and Jewish Custom under Grace (18:18, Paul’s vow). Routing: Human theologian (Grace) / Native speaker review (Civil Authority, Vows).
Chapter 19 — Ephesus; John’s Baptism Contrast; the Magic Scrolls
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 19:1-7 | Critical | Contrast between John’s baptism (repentance only) and the Spirit received at baptism into the Lord Jesus’ name — a real theological distinction, not flattened into one rite. | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Baptism | 19:1-5 | Critical | Reinforces the John’s-baptism-vs.-Jesus’-name-baptism distinction already flagged in the master registry. | Human theologian |
| Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from Occult Power | 19:11-20 | Critical | Public burning of magic scrolls at Ephesus — decisive public renunciation of occult practice, paralleling the pastoral urgency needed for maiba/maibi-background converts. | Human theologian |
Chapter 20 — Troas (Eutychus); Farewell to the Ephesian Elders
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 20:7-12 (Eutychus) | Critical | Eutychus’s restoration-to-mortal-life must be explicitly distinguished from Christ’s unique, final resurrection — same distinguishing-note requirement as Tabitha (ch.9). | Human theologian |
| Church Governance and Leadership | 20:17,28 | Medium | Elder/overseer/shepherd (ahal/chekshinaba/yaol) vocabulary for local pastoral oversight. | Native speaker review |
| Grace | 20:24,32 | Critical | Paul’s ministry as testifying to “the gospel of the grace of God”; the word of grace as able to build up and grant the inheritance. | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 20:27 | High | ”The whole counsel of God” as the ministry model of faithful, complete proclamation. | Human theologian |
| Atonement of Christ | 20:28 | Critical | ”Purchased with his own blood” — unique, historical, substitutionary sacrifice, explicitly distinguished from yajna/homa or Sanamahi sacrificial rites. | Human theologian |
| Faith | 20:21 | High | Repentance and faith paired, object of faith named as “our Lord Jesus Christ.” | Human theologian |
Chapter 21 — Jerusalem-Bound; the Nazirite Vow; Arrest
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vows and Jewish Custom under Grace | 21:20-26 | Medium | Paul’s participation in a Nazirite-vow purification rite is permitted cultural continuity, not a salvation-necessary act. | Native speaker review |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 21:27-36 | High | Paul seized in the temple; mob violence — continues the book’s persecution pattern. | Human theologian |
Chapter 22 — Paul’s Defense on the Steps (Retelling His Conversion)
Explicitly reviewed: no new doctrine introduced. Reuses Conversion of Paul (22:3-21, the second of three retellings) and the Civil Authority and Legal Process framework (22:25-29, Paul’s Roman citizenship). Routing: Human theologian (Conversion of Paul) / Native speaker review (Civil Authority).
Chapter 23 — The Sanhedrin; Pharisees and Sadducees on Resurrection; the Plot
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 23:6,8 | Critical | Paul invokes “the resurrection of the dead” as the reason for his trial — extends the doctrine to the general future resurrection, distinct from the temporary restoration-miracles of chs. 9, 20. | Human theologian |
| Civil Authority and Legal Process | 23:1 | Medium | Paul’s clear conscience before God grounds his legal self-defense. | Native speaker review |
| Providence | 23:11 | High | The Lord’s direct nighttime assurance to Paul — personal governance amid danger, not fate. | Human theologian |
Chapter 24 — Before Felix
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 24:1-21 | High | ”The Way” labeled a “sect” by hostile outsiders — the movement’s identity contested under legal accusation. | Human theologian |
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 24:15,21 | Critical | Paul affirms “a resurrection of both the just and the unjust” before Felix. | Human theologian |
| Universal Human Accountability and Final Judgment | 24:25 | High | Righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment — full universal scope, unsoftened, before a Roman governor. | Human theologian |
| Civil Authority and Legal Process | 24:1-27 | Medium | Paul’s extended, principled engagement with Felix’s tribunal. | Native speaker review |
Chapter 25 — Before Festus; Appeal to Caesar
Explicitly reviewed: no new doctrine introduced. Reuses the Persecution and Bold Witness and Civil Authority and Legal Process frameworks established in chapters 16, 21–24 (Festus’s tribunal; Paul’s appeal to Caesar as a citizen’s legal right exercised under the “obey God rather than men” principle). Routing: Human theologian (Persecution) / Native speaker review (Civil Authority).
Chapter 26 — Before Agrippa (Paul’s Third Retelling)
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversion of Paul | 26:9-18 | Critical | The fullest retelling; the risen Lord’s commission to open eyes and turn people “from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.” | Human theologian |
| Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from Occult Power | 26:18 | Critical | Satan’s dominion is uniquely, comprehensively hostile — conversion is rescue from active opposition, not renegotiation of ritual standing with an ambivalent spirit. | Human theologian |
| Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection | 26:8,23 | Critical | Paul ties his hope directly to Christ’s resurrection as “first to rise.” | Human theologian |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 26:16 | High | Paul commissioned as “witness” (সাক্ষী) to what he has seen and will see. | Human theologian |
| Salvation / Atonement of Christ | 26:18 | Critical | Forgiveness of sins and “a place among those sanctified by faith” — salvation, sanctification, and faith summarized together. | Human theologian |
| Fulfillment of Prophecy and Messianic Identity | 26:22-27 | High | Paul claims to say “nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen” — linear fulfillment, not an open sequence. | Human theologian |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | 26:23 | High | Christ as “the first to rise… and would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.” | Human theologian |
| The Church as Community | 26:28 | High | Agrippa’s “you almost persuade me to be a Christian” — the ক্রিস্তান identity-marker recurs. | Human theologian |
Chapter 27 — The Voyage and Storm
Explicitly reviewed: no new doctrine introduced. Reuses Providence (27:22-25,34, the angel’s assurance and Paul’s confidence amid the storm — God’s personal governance, never ৱাইফম) as previously established in chapters 12, 16, 23. Routing: Human theologian.
Chapter 28 — Malta; Arrival in Rome; the Closing Word
| Doctrine | Passage | Risk | Translation Risk Note | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 28:28 | Critical | ”This salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles” as the book’s summary statement. | Human theologian |
| Salvation | 28:28 | Critical | Never মোক্ষ-framed; reconciliation through Christ’s finished historical work, now extended to Rome itself. | Human theologian |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | 28:23,30-31 | High | Kingdom of God proclaimed “without hindrance” (কোনবা য়াওদনা) — the book’s deliberately chosen final word and closing thematic seal: no opposition from either live religious tradition ultimately halts the gospel’s advance. | Human theologian |
Part 3 — Coverage Confirmation
All 28 chapters of Acts have been addressed above. Chapters 12, 18, 22, 25, and 27 introduce no new doctrine beyond the master matrix in Part 1 and are explicitly marked as reviewed reuses rather than omitted. Every doctrine in doctrine_risk_registry.json appears at least once in the chapter-by-chapter matrix with matching risk tier and review routing. This document supersedes no entry in the registry; it only maps registry doctrines onto full-book chapter coverage for Phase 2 handoff.
Companion documents: assets/translation_memory.json, assets/bible_term_registry.json, assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json, analysis/08_core_glossary.md.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Manipuri name: থাওয়াই অসেংবা অমসুং পেন্তেকোস্ত
Key terms: holy_spirit, tongues, pentecost, witness
Review routing: Human theologian
The wind (নুংশিত) and fire imagery accompanying the Spirit’s outpouring must not be equated with থাওয়াই in its populated Sanamahi sense (ancestral/nature spirits at Lai Haraoba); the tongues-speech (লোন) must be intelligible human language, never a maibi’s ecstatic trance-utterance; and the democratized prophecy of 2:17-18 must not be restricted to a ritual-specialist class as the maiba/maibi office is restricted within Sanamahi practice.
The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Manipuri name: জুহুদী অমসুং অতোপ্পা ফুরুপশিংদা নুংঙাইবগী পাউ
Key terms: gospel, gentiles, unclean_clean, no_partiality, god_fearer
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s abolition of ceremonial food/purity boundaries (10:14-15,28) must not be absorbed into existing regional purity categories (Lai Haraoba or temple ritual purity, caste-inflected food purity); the doctrine’s universal scope must not be softened given Manipur’s contemporary inter-community sensitivities.
Repentance and Baptism
Manipuri name: পুকৌ হোংদোকপা অমসুং বাপ্তিস্মা
Key terms: repentance, baptism, sin
Review routing: Human theologian
Repentance must be distinguished from prāyaścitta-style ritual atonement in Vaishnava practice and from ritual purification before Lai Haraoba. Baptism must be distinguished from Vaishnava snana and Sanamahi purification bathing; it is a public, once-for-all identification with Christ, not a repeatable washing. Acts 19:1-5’s contrast between John’s baptism and baptism into the Lord Jesus’ name must be preserved as a real theological distinction, not flattened into a single undifferentiated rite.
Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from Occult Power
Manipuri name: থাওয়াইগী লান অমসুং ফাত্তবা থাওয়াইদগী কনবা
Key terms: sorcery, divination_spirit, satans_authority
Review routing: Human theologian
This is the single highest-salience collision risk in the whole curriculum: the divination/python spirit (16:16-18) speaking oracular truths through a human medium closely parallels the maibi’s trance-state oracular role within Lai Haraoba. Scripture’s verdict is unambiguous exorcism and condemnation in Jesus’ name, not negotiation or veneration. Satan’s dominion (26:18) must not be assimilated to the morally ambivalent spirit-categories of Sanamahi cosmology, where spirits may be propitiated or honored; conversion is rescue from an actively hostile dominion, not a renegotiation of ritual standing.
Conversion of Paul
Manipuri name: পাউলগী থাজবা লৌবা
Key terms: lord, chosen_instrument, scales_fall_from_eyes, satans_authority, the_way
Review routing: Human theologian
Saul’s direct, personal encounter with the risen, glorified Lord (9:5) must retain মপু ইবুংগো’s full exclusive-Lordship weight. His commissioning as a ‘chosen instrument’ (9:15) extends the baseline election doctrine into apostolic mission; his conversion from persecuting ‘the Way’ (9:2) to proclaiming it is the paradigm case for the whole book’s conversion narrative.
Justification apart from the Law
Manipuri name: য়াথাংদগী নত্তনা অচুম্বা ওইহনবা
Key terms: justification, law, imputed_righteousness, circumcision, yoke_of_law, grace
Review routing: Human theologian
Acts 13:39 is the locus classicus for this doctrine in Acts, directly parallel to Romans 3-4, and must render অচুম্বা ওইহনবা and য়াথাং identically to the Romans package. The Jerusalem Council’s resolution (ch.15) that Gentiles are saved ‘through the grace of the Lord Jesus’ (15:11), not circumcision or law-keeping, is the narrative climax of this doctrine in the whole book.
Ascension and Enthronement of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী স্বর্গদা লেংথোকপা অমসুং ফম্বীদা ফম্বা
Key terms: lord, resurrection
Review routing: Human theologian
Christ’s bodily, historical, visible ascension and enthronement must be sharply distinguished from Vaishnava narratives of Krishna’s departure/return to Vaikuntha/Goloka at the end of his avatar-leela; the ascension is the unique, bodily glorification of the one eternal Son, not the withdrawal-phase of a repeatable avatar cycle. Acts 2:34-35 quotes two distinct referents (God the Father and the Messiah) both necessarily rendered মপু ইবুংগো; a mandatory translator note flagging this dual referent is required since Manipuri lacks an automatic grammatical device to mark the distinction.
Deity of Christ and His Distinct Titles
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী তেংবাং মপু ওইবা অমসুং মিং তোঙান তোঙানবা
Key terms: holy_and_righteous_one, founder_pioneer_of_life, servant_christological, son_of_man, son_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
Acts introduces several new Christological titles (Holy and Righteous One, Founder/Pioneer of life, Servant, Son of Man) alongside the baseline’s Son of God and Lord. These titles must be kept terminologically distinct from one another (especially Son of Man vs. Son of God) and never softened into a Vaishnava avatar-status or a devotee’s dāsya-bhāva servant-posture; every title affirms Christ’s unique, undiminished deity.
Resurrection of Christ and the General Resurrection
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা অমসুং মীওই পুম্নমক্কী হিংজত-লকপা
Key terms: resurrection
Review routing: Human theologian
Never পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth). The restoration-to-mortal-life miracles of Tabitha (ch.9) and Eutychus (ch.20) must be explicitly distinguished in translator notes from Christ’s unique, final, immortal resurrection and from the future general resurrection of all people (ch.23-24) — a temporary reprieve from death is not the same category as the final, unrepeatable resurrection to immortality.
Lordship of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী মপু ওইবা
Key terms: lord, the_way
Review routing: Human theologian
Never ঠাকুর, the Krishna-devotional title. Acts 2:36’s summary confession (‘God has made him both Lord and Christ’) requires a mandatory translator note against two specific misreadings: (1) adoptionism, as if Jesus only became divine/Lord at this point rather than being eternally the Son now publicly enthroned; (2) any implicit analogy to a temple deity-installation ritual (e.g. the abhisheka/installation of a Krishna image), which would wrongly cast the resurrection-enthronement as a periodic ritual act rather than Christ’s unique, historical, once-for-all installation as reigning Lord.
Grace
Manipuri name: মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং
Key terms: grace, salvation, faith
Review routing: Human theologian
Acts 15:11’s climactic statement that Gentiles ‘are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus’ must resist collapsing into কৃপা’s bhakti-responsive framework, in which Krishna’s favor is understood as responsive to a devotee’s devoted service (seva); grace in Acts is unconditioned and resolves the entire law/circumcision controversy on that basis.
Salvation
Manipuri name: অহানবা
Key terms: salvation, called
Review routing: Human theologian
Never মোক্ষ (Vaishnava liberation) and never framed as a devotee’s hoped-for eternal union with Krishna’s presence. Acts 4:12’s ‘no other name’ must retain unqualified exclusivity, resisting any reading that places Jesus alongside Krishna or the Umang Lai as one valid name among several.
Atonement of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী মথমগী ঈদগী লৈফম্লবা
Key terms: purchased_with_his_own_blood, sin, forgiveness
Review routing: Human theologian
Christ’s unique, historical, once-for-all substitutionary sacrifice, purchasing the church with his own blood, must be explicitly distinguished from any animal or ritual sacrifice (yajna/homa offerings in Vaishnava practice, or traditional Sanamahi sacrificial rites) that might otherwise seem structurally similar; connects directly to the atonement/propitiation doctrine flagged Critical in the Romans baseline (3:25).
High Risk Doctrines
Unity of Jews and Gentiles / God’s Impartiality
Manipuri name: জুহুদী অমসুং অতোপ্পা ফুরুপগী অমত্তা ওইবা
Key terms: no_partiality, gentiles, council_decree
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be taught with theological clarity rather than mapped directly onto contemporary Manipur ethnic-community relations, which address a different (social/political) kind of division from the one Acts resolves; the Jerusalem Council’s resolution is a soteriological, not an ethnic-political, decision.
The Church as Community
Manipuri name: কলিসিয়া অসেংবা মীওইশিংগী লোইনবা
Key terms: church, fellowship, all_things_common, household, deacon, elder_overseer_shepherd
Review routing: Human theologian
Never মন্দির (Vaishnava temple) or উমাং লাই থাবা (Umang Lai sacred grove). The voluntary, Spirit-produced sharing of 2:44-45 and 4:32 is distinct from clan (yumnak) communal obligation; household baptism (16:15,33) describes individual faith-responses within a family, not automatic yumnak lineage-status transfer.
Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Manipuri name: তবিদগী থাবিরকপগী মপাংথোক অমসুং মমল খুদমশিং
Key terms: apostle, signs_and_wonders, power_of_god, laying_on_of_hands, whole_counsel_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
Miracles authenticate God’s sent apostolic messenger; they must be kept categorically distinct from a maiba/maibi’s ritual displays of power and never rendered with শক্তি, associated with a maibi’s Lai Haraoba trance-power.
Persecution and Bold Witness
Manipuri name: ওৎনবা অমসুং ঠাঠোন্না সাক্ষী পীবা
Key terms: witness, boldness, obedience_of_faith, sanhedrin
Review routing: Human theologian
Apostolic witness (সাক্ষী) is deliberate, rational, historical eyewitness testimony; it must be sharply distinguished from a maibi’s mediated, trance-state oracular disclosure during Lai Haraoba. Stephen’s death (ch.7) is the paradigmatic model connecting witness-vocabulary to costly, faithful proclamation under threat.
The Great Commission Fulfilled
Manipuri name: পাউ সন্দোকপগী থৌদাং মপুং ফাবা
Key terms: mission, light_for_gentiles, without_hindrance, kingdom_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
Frame the gospel’s advance ‘to the ends of the earth’ as the church’s own Spirit-initiated calling rather than a foreign or ethnically-coded project, given the historical entanglement of mission work in the Manipur hills with colonial-era administration and present inter-community sensitivities. The book’s deliberate final word, ἀκωλύτως (‘without hindrance,’ 28:31), should be taught as the closing thematic seal: no opposition, from either of Manipur’s two live religious traditions, ultimately halts the gospel’s advance.
Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং অমসুং মীওইগী মপুং ফাবা
Key terms: providence, election
Review routing: Human theologian
Christ’s death is simultaneously human sin and God’s sovereign, foreordained plan (2:23) — must affirm both divine sovereignty and genuine human guilt without collapsing into ৱাইফম (impersonal fate); the same caution applies to the repeated ‘coincidences’ of God’s care across Acts (12; 16:6-10; 27), which must be read as personal governance, not impersonal destiny.
Election and Apostolic Commissioning
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী খনবা অমসুং থাবিরকপগী খনবা
Key terms: election, chosen_instrument, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign, personal choice of Matthias, Paul, and Barnabas must be distinguished from ৱাইফম (impersonal fate) and from the royal-divine-lineage selection historically claimed by Meitei kingship (Pakhangba descent); the casting of lots in 1:26 must be bounded as a single historical incident, not commended as an ongoing divinatory method, given the divination practices associated with traditional Meitei ritual specialists.
Universal Human Accountability and Final Judgment
Manipuri name: মীওই পুম্নমক্কী মপুংফাবা লান্থোকপা অমসুং লাকপা লান্থোকপা
Key terms: coming_judgment, self_control, righteousness
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul’s preaching before Felix ties righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment together as universal human accountability before God; must retain full universal scope without softening, consistent with the baseline’s caution regarding Manipur’s contemporary inter-community sensitivities.
Fulfillment of Prophecy and Messianic Identity
Manipuri name: ফোংদোকপা ৱারোলগী মপুংফাবা অমসুং ক্রিস্তোগী মিং
Key terms: prophecy, prophet, messiah, seed_of_david, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear historical fulfillment of Old Testament promise in Jesus, not a cyclical avatar-sequence pattern as in Vaishnava theology, in which further divine descents remain conceptually open; the Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, not one figure among Vishnu’s recognized avatar sequence.
Faith
Manipuri name: থাজবা
Key terms: faith, the_way
Review routing: Human theologian
The object of faith must always be named as Jesus/the Lord; never রেndered ভক্তি, the specific developed devotional-love practice central to Manipuri Vaishnavism.
Sainthood and Sanctification
Manipuri name: অসেংবা মীওইশিং অমসুং অসেংবা ওইহনবা
Key terms: saints, sanctification, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
All believers are corporate saints; must not be narrowed to a Vaishnava renunciant-devotee class (গোসাঞি) or a specialist ritual role paralleling the maiba/maibi office.
Providence
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং
Key terms: providence
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive care across the narrative’s repeated deliverances and guidance; never ৱাইফম (fate). The storm and shipwreck narrative (ch.27) is specifically vulnerable to being reheard as impersonal-fate survival rather than a relational, promise-keeping God’s protection.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Church Governance and Leadership
Manipuri name: কলিসিয়াগী চৎনবিরাক অমসুং অহলশিংগী থৌদাং
Key terms: deacon, elder_overseer_shepherd, council_decree
Review routing: Native speaker review
Establishes durable local-church governance vocabulary (elder/overseer/shepherd/deacon) distinct from apostleship; low collision risk but requires consistent, non-hierarchical-caste-inflected rendering.
Household Faith and Family Conversion
Manipuri name: ইমুংগী থাজবা অমসুং বাপ্তিস্মা
Key terms: household, baptism
Review routing: Native speaker review
Each household member’s own faith-response must be preserved as the basis for baptism; avoid conflating with an automatic clan (yumnak) lineage-status transfer, which operates on a different logic in traditional Meitei kinship structure.
Civil Authority and Legal Process
Manipuri name: গৌরমেন্তগী মপাংথোক অমসুং ৱাফম
Key terms: sanhedrin, conscience
Review routing: Native speaker review
Paul’s navigation of Roman legal process (citizenship, appeal to Caesar) models principled engagement with civil authority under the ‘obey God rather than men’ principle (5:29) without inciting unnecessary civil conflict; low-medium doctrinal risk, mainly requiring cultural-legal clarity.
Vows and Jewish Custom under Grace
Manipuri name: মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাংগী মখাদা জুহুদীগী থৌরাংশিং
Key terms: nazirite_vow, circumcision, yoke_of_law
Review routing: Native speaker review
Paul’s continued respect for Jewish custom (vow-taking, temple purification) without implying such custom is required for salvation nuances the Justification apart from the Law doctrine; must be taught as permitted cultural continuity, not doctrinal necessity.
Low Risk Doctrines
Mutual Edification and Fellowship
Manipuri name: অমাগা অমাগা হৌদোকহনবা অমসুং লোইনবা
Key terms: fellowship, exhort
Review routing: Automated review
Standard vocabulary for encouragement and shared life in the early church; no significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Manipuri name: থাগৎচরি
Key terms: thanksgiving
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term for gratitude to God; minor risk of over-ritualization.
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