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 | 8 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Salvation, Incarnation, Grace, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Lordship of Christ, Messianic Promise |
| High | 20 | Human theologian | Gospel, Divine Calling, Faith, Sanctification, Providence, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Unity of Jews and Gentiles |
| Medium | 9 | Native speaker review | Apostleship, Prayer and Intercession, Spiritual Gifts, Mission to the Nations, Evangelism, Church as God’s People, Kingdom Mission |
| Low | 3 | Automated review only | Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do
Manipuri’s eight Critical-risk doctrines cluster around Manipuri Vaishnavism’s well-developed avatar and bhakti theology specifically. Incarnation, Sonship, and Deity of Christ are Critical because Krishna’s avatar-descents, re-enacted through the actively performed Ras Lila dance tradition, make অবতার an unusually prestigious and tempting wrong word. Grace and Salvation are Critical because they must be defended against Vaishnavism’s well-developed কৃপা (bhakti-responsive favor) and মোক্ষ-adjacent liberation concepts, which are live devotional aspirations, not distant abstractions. This is not a coincidence: these are precisely the doctrines where the “obvious” translation risks importing the exact framework Romans is written against.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (28 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Manipuri is fluent without catching that it imports avatar theology or bhakti-responsive favor logic — or, in the Sanamahi direction, that a term reads naturally because it borrows from the populated Umang Lai spirit-world or maibi trance-possession framework. Native speaker review is sufficient for Medium-risk doctrines, where the concern is cultural and inter-community sensitivity (e.g. mission framing, kingdom language given Manipur’s contemporary tensions) rather than doctrinal contradiction.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী তেংবাং মপু ওইবা
Key terms: son of God, declared son, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: full, co-equal divine nature; must not be softened into ‘a great avatar’ or ‘a specially favored spirit within the Umang Lai pantheon.‘
Grace
Manipuri name: মথৌ তাদনা পীবা তেংবাং
Key terms: grace, unmerited, gift, given freely
Review routing: Human theologian
Unmerited favor must be distinguished from Vaishnava bhakti’s কৃপা (Krishna’s favor, typically understood as responsive to a devotee’s devoted service), a live and well-developed devotional framework, not a distant abstraction.
Incarnation
Manipuri name: মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা
Key terms: flesh, seed of David, son born, came in flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: must be sharply distinguished from অবতার theology as practiced in Manipuri Vaishnavism and expressed through the Ras Lila dance tradition. The incarnation is the eternal Son’s permanent, personal assumption of human nature, once, not a recurring divine descent enacted in devotional performance.
Lordship of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী মপু ওইবা
Key terms: lord, lord jesus, jesus is lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: exclusive, supreme Lordship. Must not use ঠাকুর, the devotional title closely associated with Krishna in Manipuri Vaishnava practice, which would place Christ inside the existing bhakti-devotional system rather than above it.
Messianic Promise
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী ৱাশাক্না পীবা
Key terms: messiah, christ, anointed, promised
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus; it must not be presented as one figure among Vishnu’s recognized avatar sequence, culminating in some Vaishnava schemes with Krishna.
Resurrection of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী সিবদগী হিংজত-লকপা
Key terms: raised, resurrection, from the dead, raised from death
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: bodily, once-for-all resurrection, not পুনর্জন্ম (rebirth), a concept absorbed into Meitei religious discourse through Vaishnavization. Always distinguish in translator notes.
Salvation
Manipuri name: অহানবা
Key terms: salvation, saved, save, deliverance
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: never মোক্ষ (Vaishnava liberation) and never framed as a devotee’s hoped-for eternal union with or nearness to Krishna’s presence. Salvation is reconciliation with a personal, holy God through Christ’s finished historical work.
Sonship of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী মচানুপা ওইবা
Key terms: son of God, his son, God’s son
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not one avatar among Vishnu’s many recognized avatars as understood within Manipuri Vaishnavism.
High Risk Doctrines
Adoption into God’s Family
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী ইমুংদা মচা ওইনা লৌবা
Key terms: adoption, spirit of adoption, sons, children of God, abba
Review routing: Human theologian
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights, which must be explicitly taught since formal legal adoption is not a settled category in traditional Meitei clan (yumnak) kinship structure, where inheritance runs through birth lineage.
Assurance of Salvation
Manipuri name: অহানবগী থাজবা
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 on maintaining ongoing bhakti devotional standing or ritual harmony with the Umang Lai.
Christian Identity in Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোদা ক্রিস্তান খংনবা
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 clan (yumnak) lineage, ethnic-community belonging, or Vaishnava devotional-community status.
Davidic Covenant
Manipuri name: দাউদগী ৱারেপ্পা
Key terms: seed of David, David, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Sanamahi tradition, though the Meitei cultural emphasis on royal lineage (the Pakhangba descent claim of historic Meitei kingship) gives ‘seed of David’ language a point of natural, if distinct, resonance.
Divine Calling
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী কৌবা
Key terms: called, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call must be distinguished from a maibi being ritually seized/called by an Umang Lai deity during Lai Haraoba trance, and from ৱাইফম-style impersonal fate.
Effectual Calling
Manipuri name: মপুং ফাবা কৌবা
Key terms: called, calling, election, chosen
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not ৱাইফম (impersonal fate) and not a royal-divine-lineage selection of the Pakhangba-descent type.
Faith
Manipuri name: থাজবা
Key terms: faith, believe, belief, trust
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in Christ; the object of faith must always be named, distinguished from ভক্তি (bhakti), the specific devotional-love practice central to Manipuri Vaishnavism.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Manipuri name: ফোংদোকপা ৱারোলগী মপুং ফাবা
Key terms: prophecy, promised, foretold, scriptures say
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament fulfillment in Christ); not a cyclical avatar-sequence pattern as in Vaishnava theology, in which further divine descents remain conceptually open.
Gospel
Manipuri name: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ
Key terms: gospel, good news
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be distinguished from festive announcements associated with the Vaishnava devotional calendar (e.g. Ras Lila performances); the gospel is the unique proclamation of salvation through Christ crucified and risen.
Humanity of Christ
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তোগী মীওইশিং ওইবা
Key terms: born of the seed of David, flesh, human
Review routing: Human theologian
Christ’s full, real humanity must not be diluted into a temporary devotional-performance embodiment as Ras Lila dance-drama enacts Krishna’s appearances.
Inspiration of Scripture
Manipuri name: অসেংবা মপুং ৱারিগী থাওয়াই পীবা
Key terms: scriptures, holy scriptures, prophets
Review routing: Human theologian
The historical burning of indigenous Meitei religious manuscripts (puya) in the 1729 Puya Meithaba means this curriculum should teach the God-breathed, providentially preserved character of Scripture with particular sensitivity to Meitei cultural memory around lost sacred texts.
Obedience of Faith
Manipuri name: থাজবগী ইনবা
Key terms: obedience of faith, obedience, faith-produced obedience
Review routing: Human theologian
Obedience flowing from faith, not সেবা (ritual devotional service performed to build bhakti standing) as practiced in Manipuri Vaishnavism.
Power of God for Salvation
Manipuri name: অহানবগী তেংবাং মপুগী পাংথোক-থেংনবা
Key terms: power of God, God’s power
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be kept categorically distinct from the ritual/oracular power attributed to a maibi’s Lai Haraoba trance state.
Providence
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌরাং
Key terms: all things work together, God works, foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive care; never ৱাইফম (fate). Romans 8:28 is specifically vulnerable to being reheard as impersonal-fate assurance rather than a relational promise.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Manipuri name: অসেংবা মীওইশিংগী কৌবা
Key terms: saints, holy ones, called to be holy
Review routing: Human theologian
All believers are saints corporately; must not be narrowed to a Vaishnava renunciant-devotee class (গোসাঞি) or a specialist ritual role paralleling the maibi/maiba.
Sanctification
Manipuri name: অসেংবা ওইহনবা
Key terms: sanctification, holiness, set apart, holy living
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy; not ritual purification before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship.
Separation unto God’s Service
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী থৌজালদা করকপা
Key terms: set apart, separated, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
Must not be confused with the ritual preparations undertaken before Lai Haraoba or Vaishnava temple worship. Biblical separation is ongoing, whole-life devotion lived out in the world, not a periodic ritual state.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Manipuri name: জুহুদীশিং অমসুং অতোপ্পা ফুরুপশিংগী অমত্তা ওইবা
Key terms: Jew and Gentile, no distinction, one body, olive tree
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 Romans is resolving.
Universal Human Accountability
Manipuri name: মীওই পুম্নমক্কী মপুংফাবা লান্থোকপা
Key terms: all have sinned, no one is righteous, no distinction, all are accountable
Review routing: Human theologian
All humanity equally guilty before God; retain universal language without softening, even against any residual royal-divine-lineage status claims tied to the historic Pakhangba descent tradition.
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Manipuri name: নুংঙাইবগী পাউগী মপুংফাবা য়ামলবা
Key terms: everyone who believes, all who call, no distinction, Jew and Gentile
Review routing: Human theologian
No clan (yumnak), caste, or ethnic barrier to the gospel; retain unqualified universality, a point of particular sensitivity given Manipur’s contemporary inter-community tensions.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship
Manipuri name: তবিদগী থাবিরকপগী থৌদাং
Key terms: apostle
Review routing: Native speaker review
Risk of reducing apostleship to a generic religious-specialist role paralleling a maiba or maibi’s recognized ritual office rather than a unique, Christ-commissioned sent ministry.
Christ-Centered Ministry
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তো-চুংথোকপা সেবা
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 or educational service divorced from the gospel, a distinction worth stressing given the historical association of mission work with schools among Manipur’s hill communities.
Church as God’s People
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগী মীওইশিং ওইনা কলিসিয়া
Key terms: body of Christ, one body, church, saints, assembly
Review routing: Native speaker review
New covenant community; not a temple institution, a Sanamahi sacred-grove community, or an ethnically-segregated assembly.
Evangelism
Manipuri name: নুংঙাইবগী পাউ সন্দোকপা
Key terms: preach, proclaim, evangelize, send, how will they hear
Review routing: Native speaker review
Frame as proclamation and witness rather than confrontation, given the active, currently practiced state of both Sanamahi revival and Vaishnava devotional life in the Imphal Valley.
Kingdom Mission
Manipuri name: লৈপাক্কী থৌদাং
Key terms: kingdom of God, righteousness peace and joy, advance the kingdom
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s reign advancing through the gospel; must be distinguished from the historic Meitei kingship’s own royal-divine-lineage political framing.
Mission to the Nations
Manipuri name: ফুরুপ খুদিংমক্তা পাউ সন্দোকপা
Key terms: nations, gentiles, all peoples, to the ends of the earth
Review routing: Native speaker review
Given the historical association of Christian mission work with colonial-era administration and, more recently, with sensitive inter-community relations within Manipur, frame evangelism as the church’s own calling rather than a foreign or ethnically-coded project.
Peace with God
Manipuri name: তেংবাং মপুগা লোয়ননা ইনগবা
Key terms: peace with God, peace, peace through justification
Review routing: Native speaker review
Relational, judicial peace through justification, not devotional bhakti calm or the ritual harmony maintained with the Umang Lai through Lai Haraoba observance.
Prayer and Intercession
Manipuri name: হায়জবা অমসুং মখোয়গী মফমদা হায়জবা
Key terms: prayer, intercession, pray, groan, spirit intercedes
Review routing: Native speaker review
Direct access to God in Christ’s name; distinguish from petitions traditionally carried to the Umang Lai through a maibi or maiba on a community’s behalf.
Spiritual Gifts
Manipuri name: থাওয়াইগী খুদোল
Key terms: spiritual gift, gift, grace gift, measure of faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Spirit-given enablements for the whole church; not the ritual/oracular power attributed to a maibi’s Lai Haraoba trance state.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship
Manipuri name: ক্রিস্তান লোইনবা
Key terms: fellowship, share, participate, community
Review routing: Automated review
Shared participation in Christ; not merely clan (yumnak) or social association.
Mutual Edification
Manipuri name: অমাগা অমাগা হৌদোকহনবা
Key terms: build up, edify, encourage one another, strengthen
Review routing: Automated review
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Manipuri name: থাগৎচরি
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks, grateful, thank God
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term. Minor risk of over-ritualization.
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