Doctrine Analysis: 1 Peter (Full-Book Doctrine Matrix)

This document provides the complete doctrine matrix for 1 Peter, chapters 1–5, in full agreement with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (same 25 doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing). Per the PRD Phase 1 full-coverage mandate, every chapter of 1 Peter is analyzed from first verse to last; sections that primarily carry forward an already-documented doctrine are marked “carries forward” rather than omitted.

Core passage anchor: 1 Peter 1:3–9 (Living Hope of the Resurrection). This core passage is the theological center of gravity for the curriculum but not the boundary of analysis — the matrix below spans all five chapters.

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A. Book-Wide Doctrine Summary (25 Doctrines)

#	Doctrine	Risk	Primary Passages	Review Routing
1	The Living Hope of the Resurrection	Critical	1:3, 1:5, 1:8-9, 1:21, 3:21	Human theologian
2	New Birth / Regeneration	Critical	1:3, 1:23	Human theologian
3	Inheritance and Assurance	High	1:4, 1:5	Human theologian
4	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	Critical	1:6-7, 2:19-20, 3:14, 3:17, 4:1, 4:12-16, 4:19, 5:9-10	Human theologian
5	Holiness in Conduct	High	1:14-16, 1:22, 2:1-2, 2:11-12, 3:1-2, 3:16, 4:2-4	Human theologian
6	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	Critical	1:18-19, 1:20, 2:21-24, 3:18	Human theologian
7	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	Critical	2:4-5, 2:9	Human theologian
8	Unity Across Castes as God’s Chosen People	Critical	2:9-10	Human theologian
9	Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance	High	2:13-17, 2:18-20, 3:1-6, 3:22, 5:5	Human theologian
10	Marriage and Mutual Honor	Medium	3:1-7	Native speaker
11	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	Critical	3:18-22	Human theologian
12	Baptism and Salvation	High	3:21	Human theologian
13	Gospel Preached to the Dead and Final Judgment	Critical	4:5-7	Human theologian
14	Idolatry and the Former Life Renounced	Critical	1:14, 1:18, 4:2-4	Human theologian
15	Stewardship of Spiritual Gifts	Medium	4:10-11	Native speaker
16	Suffering as Participation in Christ and Reproach for His Name	High	4:12-16	Human theologian
17	Judgment Beginning with God’s Household	High	4:17-18	Human theologian
18	Providence and God’s Care	High	4:19, 5:6-7	Human theologian
19	Elders and Humility	High	5:1-6	Human theologian
20	Resisting the Devil / Spiritual Warfare	Critical	5:8-9	Human theologian
21	Divine Calling and Election	High	1:1-2, 1:15, 2:9, 2:21, 5:10	Human theologian
22	Inspiration of Prophecy and Scripture	Medium	1:10-12	Native speaker
23	Christian Identity as Sojourners and Exiles	High	1:1, 1:17, 2:11	Human theologian
24	Mutual Love and Hospitality	Medium	1:22, 3:8, 4:8-9	Native speaker
25	Doxology and Praise	Low	1:3, 4:11, 5:11	Automated

Risk totals (reconciles with doctrine_risk_registry.json): Critical = 10, High = 10, Medium = 4, Low = 1. Total = 25.

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B. Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Coverage

1 Peter 1 (verses 1–25) — reviewed in full

Verses	Doctrine(s) Active	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
1:1-2	Divine Calling and Election; Christian Identity as Sojourners and Exiles	High	God’s sovereign, personal “elect exiles” identity must not read as karma-determined fate (भाग्य/किस्मत), nor as a merely spiritual metaphor divorced from Nepal’s real history of legal restriction on the church.	Human theologian
1:3	Living Hope of the Resurrection; New Birth/Regeneration; Doxology and Praise	Critical	Doxology opening verse of the core passage. जीवित आशा must stay paired with पुनरुत्थान; नयाँ जन्म must never render as पुनर्जन्म — both collide with karma-rebirth frameworks shared by Nepal’s Hindu majority and Newar/Himalayan Buddhist communities.	Human theologian
1:4	Inheritance and Assurance	High	उत्तराधिकार must not be read through caste/lineage inheritance custom historically codified in the Muluki Ain; this inheritance is granted to every believer by grace, irrespective of birth status.	Human theologian
1:5	Inheritance and Assurance; Living Hope of the Resurrection	Critical / High	”Guarded by God’s power” — परमेश्वरको सामर्थ्य (never शक्ति); salvation “ready to be revealed” is future and certain, not a gradual karmic unfolding.	Human theologian
1:6-7	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	Critical	परीक्षा (trial/testing) is God-permitted testing of genuine faith under a personal God, not karmic testing or merit accumulation through endurance.	Human theologian
1:8-9	Living Hope of the Resurrection	Critical	”Salvation of your souls” — प्राण (soul) must never be rendered आत्मा, which is reserved for पवित्र आत्मा; faith described here is personal trust in the unseen Christ, not generalized devotional reverence.	Human theologian
1:10-12	Inspiration of Prophecy and Scripture	Medium	God-breathed prophetic disclosure through “the Spirit of Christ,” distinct from Hindu shruti (sage-heard revelation) and Buddhist sutra-transmission categories.	Native speaker
1:13	Holiness in Conduct	High	”Set your hope fully” — hope grounded in Christ’s return, not meditative detachment or fatalistic resignation.	Human theologian
1:14-16	Holiness in Conduct; Idolatry and the Former Life Renounced	Critical / High	”Passions of your former ignorance” anticipates the idolatry-renunciation theme; पवित्र is moral/relational set-apartness, not ritual purity (शुद्ध) or the sadhu/renunciate ascetic ideal.	Human theologian
1:17	Christian Identity as Sojourners and Exiles; Providence (implicit)	High	”Conduct yourselves with fear” during your “exile” (प्रवासी/परदेशी) — reverent fear of a personal Father-Judge, not fatalistic dread nor caste-linked social fear.	Human theologian
1:18-19	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	Critical	”Precious blood… lamb without blemish” requires explicit OT Passover/Isaiah 53 sacrificial framing so it is not misheard as endorsing or resembling ongoing Hindu ritual animal sacrifice (e.g., Dashain).	Human theologian
1:20	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	Critical	”Foreknown… manifested” is a once-for-all divine self-disclosure in history, never a repeatable avatar-descent pattern.	Human theologian
1:21	Living Hope of the Resurrection; Divine Calling and Election	Critical / High	Faith and hope are “in God” through the resurrection — historical, bodily, non-cyclical.	Human theologian
1:22	Mutual Love and Hospitality; Holiness in Conduct	Medium / High	”Having purified your souls” — प्राण, not आत्मा; love here is relational obedience-to-truth, not ritual purification.	Native speaker
1:23-25	New Birth/Regeneration	Critical	”Imperishable seed… living and abiding word of God” — must not be read through the karma-bija/karma-phala (seed-and-fruit-of-action-across-lives) framework shared by Hindu and Buddhist ethics.	Human theologian

1 Peter 2 (verses 1–25) — reviewed in full

Verses	Doctrine(s) Active	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
2:1-2	Holiness in Conduct	High	”Pure spiritual milk” (निष्कपट आत्मिक दूध) — Scripture as nourishment, not a ritual food category.	Human theologian
2:4-5	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	Critical	”Living stone… spiritual house… holy priesthood” — पूजाहारी shares its root with पूजा (Hindu/Buddhist ritual worship) and a caste-linked priestly office; must explicitly teach direct, casteless priestly access for every believer.	Human theologian
2:6-8	The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	Critical	OT cornerstone catena (Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22, Isaiah 8:14) — Christ as the sole foundation; carries forward doctrine #7.	Human theologian
2:9-10	Unity Across Castes as God’s Chosen People; The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood	Critical	जाति (chosen race/holy nation) is Nepal’s ordinary word for both “nation” and “caste”; without explicit teaching, risks the church being heard as a new caste rather than a caste-transcending people. Same-root collision with अन्यजाति compounds the risk.	Human theologian
2:11-12	Christian Identity as Sojourners and Exiles; Holiness in Conduct	High	”Sojourners and exiles” (प्रवासी/परदेशी) paired with चालचलन (conduct) as the recurring anchor term for the whole letter.	Human theologian
2:13-17	Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance	High	Voluntary, gospel-motivated submission to civil authority; must never be read as re-endorsing the coercive, caste-based subordination once enforced by the Muluki Ain.	Human theologian
2:18-20	Submission to Authority; Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	High / Critical	Household-servant submission under unjust treatment — इनnocent suffering “for righteousness’ sake,” not deserved karmic suffering.	Human theologian
2:21-25	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering	Critical	Christ as the substitutionary sin-bearer and model of innocent suffering; “by his wounds you have been healed” — सिन/धार्मिकता vocabulary must remain forensic, not therapeutic-only.	Human theologian

1 Peter 3 (verses 1–22) — reviewed in full

Verses	Doctrine(s) Active	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
3:1-6	Marriage and Mutual Honor; Submission to Authority	Medium / High	”Gentle and quiet spirit” (πνεῦμα as disposition, not पवित्र आत्मा) must not be taught as endorsing female silencing; balance against Sarah’s active-respect example.	Native speaker (Marriage); Human theologian (Submission)
3:7	Marriage and Mutual Honor	Medium	”Weaker vessel” and “fellow heirs of grace” — requires gender-sensitivity handling in teaching notes; grace-standing is equal even where the metaphor names physical difference.	Native speaker
3:8-9	Mutual Love and Hospitality	Medium	Mutual sympathy, blessing instead of repaying evil — relational ethic, not merit accounting.	Native speaker
3:10-12	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	Critical	OT quotation (Psalm 34) grounding righteous suffering in God’s personal moral government, not impersonal cosmic order.	Human theologian
3:13-17	Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake; Holiness in Conduct	Critical / High	”Suffer for righteousness’ sake” with a “good conscience” (अन्तस्करण) — innocent, Christlike suffering, never karma-suffering.	Human theologian
3:18	Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering; Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	Critical	”Christ suffered once for all” (एकपल्ट) — non-repeatable, sufficient atonement; opens the letter’s most exegetically disputed passage.	Human theologian
3:19-20	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits	Critical	”Spirits in prison… in the days of Noah” — आत्माहरू must be sharply distinguished from पवित्र आत्मा; must not endorse ancestor-spirit communication or mediumship (jhar-phuk) practices.	Human theologian
3:21	Baptism and Salvation	High	”Baptism now saves you” — Peter’s own qualifier (“not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience”) must be preserved in full to avoid a mechanical ritual-efficacy reading, a live risk given Nepali Hindu ritual-purification (shuddhi) practice.	Human theologian
3:22	Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits; Submission to Authority (Christ as model)	Critical / High	”Angels, authorities, and powers” (शक्तिहरू permissible here as created powers, distinct from परमेश्वरको सामर्थ्य) subjected to the risen, ascended Christ.	Human theologian

1 Peter 4 (verses 1–19) — reviewed in full

Verses	Doctrine(s) Active	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
4:1-4	Idolatry and the Former Life Renounced; Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	Critical	मूर्तिपूजा names Hindu/Newar/Himalayan Buddhist devotional image-worship directly; must not be softened, but taught with pastoral sensitivity toward believers’ own family background.	Human theologian
4:5-6	Gospel Preached to the Dead and Final Judgment	Critical	Among the most disputed passages in the letter; must not imply a universal post-mortem second chance, which would contradict the fixed judgment of 4:5. Interpretive options must be preserved for the teacher, not resolved by translation.	Human theologian
4:7	Gospel Preached to the Dead and Final Judgment (eschatological horizon, τέλος)	Critical	”The end of all things is at hand” — linear, purposive eschatology, not a cyclical cosmic-age (yuga) frame.	Human theologian
4:8-9	Mutual Love and Hospitality	Medium	”Love covers a multitude of sins” must not be read as love earning merit or forgiveness (a merit-based misreading echoing Hindu/Buddhist ethical frameworks); it is love’s relational covering of others’ offenses.	Native speaker
4:10-11	Stewardship of Spiritual Gifts; Doxology and Praise	Medium / Low	आत्मिक वरदान (never वरदान alone) kept distinct from deity-granted-boon narratives and from Newar Tantric siddhi associations current in the Kathmandu Valley.	Native speaker
4:12-16	Suffering as Participation in Christ and Reproach for His Name	High	Publicly self-identifying as ख्रीष्टियन carries real, current social and legal exposure under Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code conversion provisions — teaching must be pastorally realistic, not merely historical.	Human theologian
4:17-18	Judgment Beginning with God’s Household	High	परमेश्वरको घराना must be distinguished from a Hindu joint-family/lineage household governed by caste-linked inheritance custom; “God’s household” is the covenant community.	Human theologian
4:19	Providence and God’s Care; Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	High / Critical	सृष्टिकर्ता (faithful Creator) as sole, personal, sovereign — not one creator-deity among a pantheon; entrusting oneself while suffering replaces fatalistic resignation.	Human theologian

1 Peter 5 (verses 1–14) — reviewed in full

Verses	Doctrine(s) Active	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
5:1-4	Elders and Humility	High	प्राचीन is a functional shepherding office, not a caste-linked honor position nor a Hindu guru/purohit or village-panchayat-elder equivalent; प्रधान गोठालो (Chief Shepherd) distinguishes Christ from human elders.	Human theologian
5:5-6	Elders and Humility	High	Mutual, reciprocal नम्रता for elders and younger alike — a freely chosen Christlike virtue, not enforced caste-linked deference within Nepal’s honor-shame social structures.	Human theologian
5:7	Providence and God’s Care	High	”He cares for you” — personal divine care replacing fatalistic भाग्य/किस्मत resignation to anxiety.	Human theologian
5:8-9	Resisting the Devil / Spiritual Warfare; Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake	Critical	दियाबल is a personal, singular, defeated-yet-active adversary, sharply distinct from the diffuse ghost/spirit (bhut-pret) categories addressed through Nepali folk-religious jhar-phuk exorcism; resistance is through faith, not ritual appeasement.	Human theologian
5:10	Divine Calling and Election	High	”Restore, confirm, strengthen, establish” after suffering — God’s sovereign, personal calling secures the outcome, not karma-determined destiny.	Human theologian
5:11	Doxology and Praise	Low	Standard closing doxology (कृात/प्रभुत्व); minor risk of over-ritualization only.	Automated
5:12-14	Doxology and Praise (closing); Mutual Love and Hospitality (holy kiss) — carries forward doctrines already documented; no new Critical/High doctrine introduced	Low / Medium	Closing greetings, exhortation (उत्साहित पार्नु), grace/peace benediction — consistency with Romans-baseline renderings of grace and peace required.	Native speaker (holy kiss custom-note) / Automated (benediction)

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C. Full-Book Coverage Confirmation

Every chapter of 1 Peter (1 through 5) has been reviewed verse-range by verse-range above. No chapter or major section was found to contribute zero doctrinal content; each is documented with its own doctrine assignments, risk tiers, and review routing. Where a section’s doctrinal content is a continuation of an already-analyzed doctrine (e.g., 2:6-8 continuing the Holy/Royal Priesthood doctrine of 2:4-5; 5:12-14 closing in doxology/fellowship already documented elsewhere), this is explicitly marked “carries forward” rather than silently omitted.

D. Risk Summary Reconciliation

Tier	Count (this document)	Count (doctrine_risk_registry.json)	Match
Critical	10	10	✅
High	10	10	✅
Medium	4	4	✅
Low	1	1	✅
Total	25	25	✅

This matrix must be loaded alongside doctrine_risk_registry.json and 08_core_glossary.md before Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Peter begins. Any newly discovered doctrinal nuance during Phase 2 must be reconciled back into both this document and the JSON registry, with version increments on both.

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Critical Risk Doctrines

The Living Hope of the Resurrection

Nepali name: पुनरुत्थानको जीवित आशा
Key terms: living_hope, resurrection, new_birth, mercy
Review routing: Human theologian

नयाँ जन्म must never be रendered पुनर्जन्म, and पुनरुत्थान must never be पुनर्जन्म — both collide directly with the karma-driven rebirth cycle held by Nepal’s Hindu majority and its Newar/Himalayan Buddhist communities. Living hope must stay grounded in a bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection, not a cyclical cosmic frame.

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New Birth / Regeneration

Nepali name: नयाँ जन्म
Key terms: new_birth, word_of_god_living_and_abiding, imperishable
Review routing: Human theologian

Same पुनर्जन्म collision risk as resurrection; नयाँ जन्म must be preserved as a single, non-repeating divine act. The ‘imperishable seed’ agricultural metaphor (1:23) must not be read through the karma-bija/karma-phala (seed-and-fruit-of-action) framework common to both Hindu and Buddhist teaching on cause-and-effect across lives.

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Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake

Nepali name: धार्मिकताको निम्ति दुःखभोग
Key terms: suffer_suffering, trial_testing, righteousness, fiery_trial
Review routing: Human theologian

दुःख भोग्नु for unjust, righteous suffering must not be assimilated into the karma-suffering framework (suffering as consequence of past-life wrongdoing) shared by Nepali Hindu and Buddhist thought. धार्मिकता must never be धर्म. This is innocent suffering borne in imitation of Christ, not deserved suffering.

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Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering

Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको प्रतिस्थापनात्मक दुःखभोग
Key terms: precious_blood_lamb, sin, righteousness, once_for_all
Review routing: Human theologian

The ‘precious blood… lamb without blemish’ image requires explicit OT Passover/Isaiah 53 sacrificial framing so it is not misheard as endorsing or resembling ongoing Hindu animal-sacrifice ritual practice (e.g., Dashain). एकपल्ट (ἅπαξ, ‘once for all’) must preserve the non-repeatable, sufficient nature of Christ’s suffering against any cyclical ritual-atonement framework.

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The Church as a Holy and Royal Priesthood

Nepali name: पवित्र र राजकीय पूजाहारी वर्गको रूपमा मण्डली
Key terms: holy_royal_priesthood, living_stone, election
Review routing: Human theologian

पूजाहारी shares its root with पूजा, the ordinary Nepali word for Hindu/Buddhist ritual worship performed by a caste-linked priestly specialist (Brahmin purohit, lama) — a structure directly bound up with the same Muluki Ain caste hierarchy the baseline repeatedly flags. Peter’s actual claim is the opposite: every believer, of any caste, has direct priestly access to God, with no ritual-specialist intermediary caste required. Teaching must explicitly block the natural misreading that the church has simply installed a new priestly caste.

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Unity Across Castes as God’s Chosen People

Nepali name: जातपातभन्दा पर चुनिएको जन
Key terms: chosen_race_holy_nation, gods_own_possession, gentiles
Review routing: Human theologian

जाति is Nepal’s ordinary word for both ‘nation’ and ‘caste/ethnic group,’ the very vocabulary underlying the historic Muluki Ain caste-classification system. Rendering γένος/ἔθνος as जाति without explicit teaching risks the church being heard as a new caste category rather than a caste-transcending people; the same-root collision with अन्यजाति (‘the nations,’ used elsewhere with contrasting valence) compounds this risk.

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Christ’s Proclamation to the Spirits

Nepali name: आत्माहरूकहाँ ख्रीष्टको घोषणा
Key terms: spirits_in_prison, ark, baptism, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian

Among the most exegetically disputed NT passages. आत्माहरू must be sharply distinguished from पवित्र आत्मा. Must not be taught as endorsing a post-mortem ‘second chance’ for salvation, nor as validating ancestor-spirit communication or mediumship practices (jhar-phuk) prevalent in Nepali folk religion.

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Gospel Preached to the Dead and Final Judgment

Nepali name: मृतकहरूलाई सुसमाचार र अन्तिम न्याय
Key terms: gospel_preached_to_dead, judge_living_and_dead, telos_outcome_end
Review routing: Human theologian

Must not be taught or translated in a way implying a universal post-mortem second chance for salvation, which would contradict the fixed judgment taught in 4:5. Leading interpretive options must be preserved for the teacher, not resolved by the translation itself.

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Idolatry and the Former Life Renounced

Nepali name: मूर्तिपूजा र पूर्वको जीवनको त्याग
Key terms: idolatry, lust_passion, vice_lists
Review routing: Human theologian

मूर्तिपूजा names, in plain Nepali, the devotional image-worship central to daily Hindu and Newar/Himalayan Buddhist religious life. This must not be softened, but must be taught with equal pastoral sensitivity given many Nepali believers’ own family/background context, distinguishing the text’s critique of the system of idol-worship from personal attack on Hindu or Buddhist neighbors and relatives.

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Resisting the Devil / Spiritual Warfare

Nepali name: दियाबलको प्रतिरोध र आत्मिक युद्ध
Key terms: devil, faith
Review routing: Human theologian

दियाबल is the established Nepali Christian term for a personal, singular, defeated-yet-active adversary; must be sharply distinguished from the diffuse ghost/spirit (bhut-pret) and displeased-local-deity categories addressed through Nepali folk-religious shamanic exorcism (jhar-phuk) — biblical resistance is through faith, not ritual appeasement.

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High Risk Doctrines

Inheritance and Assurance

Nepali name: उत्तराधिकार र निश्चयता
Key terms: inheritance, imperishable, guarded, power_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian

उत्तराधिकार must not be read through Nepal’s own inheritance-law tradition, historically entangled with caste and lineage law under the Muluki Ain; this inheritance is granted by grace to every believer regardless of caste or birth status.

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Holiness in Conduct

Nepali name: चालचलनमा पवित्रता
Key terms: holy, conduct_behavior, lust_passion, spiritual_milk
Review routing: Human theologian

पवित्र denotes set-apart moral holiness, not the Hindu/Buddhist ritual-purity category (शुद्ध) or the ascetic-renunciate ideal (सन्त/साधु) still visibly honored at national shrines such as Pashupatinath. चालचलन must be rendered consistently as the recurring anchor term throughout.

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Submission to Authority and Christlike Endurance

Nepali name: अधिकारप्रति अधीनता र ख्रीष्टजस्तो सहनशीलता
Key terms: submit_be_subject, domineering, suffer_suffering
Review routing: Human theologian

This is voluntary, gospel-motivated submission modeled on Christ’s own submission-in-suffering, never a re-endorsement of the coercive, caste-based social subordination the Muluki Ain once enforced by law, nor of Nepal’s historical bonded-labor and caste-based servitude systems (formally abolished but socially persistent).

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Baptism and Salvation

Nepali name: बप्तिस्मा र उद्धार
Key terms: baptism, conscience, salvation
Review routing: Human theologian

The verse’s causal wording (‘baptism now saves you’) requires careful framing — immediately qualified by Peter himself as not bodily purification but an appeal for a good conscience — to avoid a mechanical ritual-efficacy reading disconnected from faith, a live risk given the prevalence of ritual purification (shuddhi) practice in Nepali Hindu tradition.

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Suffering as Participation in Christ and Reproach for His Name

Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको दुःखभोगमा सहभागिता र उहाँको नाउँको निन्दा
Key terms: fellowship, christian_identity, glory
Review routing: Human theologian

Publicly self-identifying as ख्रीष्टियन carries real, current social and legal exposure under Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code conversion provisions, not merely historical or abstract stigma; teaching must be pastorally realistic about this contemporary risk.

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Judgment Beginning with God’s Household

Nepali name: परमेश्वरको घरानाबाट सुरु हुने न्याय
Key terms: household_of_god, judge_living_and_dead, righteousness
Review routing: Human theologian

घराना (household) language anticipates corporate church identity; must be distinguished from a Hindu joint-family/lineage household governed by caste-linked inheritance custom, so that ‘God’s household’ is understood as the covenant community, not a biological or caste lineage.

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Providence and God’s Care

Nepali name: परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन र वास्ता
Key terms: creator, anxiety_care, providence
Review routing: Human theologian

सृष्टिकर्ता must be taught as the sole, personal, sovereign Creator, distinct from a Hindu creator-deity within a pantheon (e.g., Brahma) or an impersonal generative principle; God’s personal care replaces fatalistic भाग्य/किस्मत resignation.

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Elders and Humility

Nepali name: प्राचीनहरू र नम्रता
Key terms: elder, shepherd_oversee, chief_shepherd, humility, domineering
Review routing: Human theologian

प्राचीन (elder) is a functional shepherding office, not a caste-linked honor position nor equivalent to a Hindu guru/purohit or a village panchayat elder. नम्रता (humility) must be taught as a positive, freely chosen Christlike virtue for all believers including leaders, not enforced lower-caste deference within Nepal’s historically hierarchical honor-shame culture.

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Divine Calling and Election

Nepali name: परमेश्वरको बोलावट र छनोट
Key terms: election, called, calling
Review routing: Human theologian

God’s sovereign, personal choice and summons must not be rendered with terms suggesting karma-determined destiny or impersonal fate (भाग्य/किस्मत), shared by both Nepali Hindu and Buddhist frameworks.

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Christian Identity as Sojourners and Exiles

Nepali name: प्रवासी र परदेशीको रूपमा मसीही परिचय
Key terms: sojourners_exiles, election, holy
Review routing: Human theologian

Given Nepal’s young, historically restricted church (illegal until 1990) and current legal exposure under the 2017 Muluki Criminal Code, this self-identity as legally and socially marginal ‘sojourners’ carries direct lived resonance and must not be softened into a merely spiritual metaphor divorced from real social experience.

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Medium Risk Doctrines

Marriage and Mutual Honor

Nepali name: विवाहमा आपसी सम्मान
Key terms: weaker_vessel, gentle_quiet_spirit, grace
Review routing: Native speaker review

‘Gentle and quiet spirit’ must not be taught as endorsing female silencing or passivity as an absolute social rule; must be balanced against Sarah’s active-respect example (3:6) and the affirmation of ‘fellow heirs’ of equal grace-standing.

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Stewardship of Spiritual Gifts

Nepali name: आत्मिक वरदानको भण्डारीपन
Key terms: spiritual_gifts, steward, strength_supplied
Review routing: Native speaker review

आत्मिक वरदान (never वरदान alone) must be kept distinct from Hindu deity-granted-boon narratives and from Newar Tantric siddhi (supernatural attainment) associations current in the Kathmandu Valley.

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Inspiration of Prophecy and Scripture

Nepali name: अगमवाणी र धर्मशास्त्रको प्रेरणा
Key terms: prophet, prophecy, holy_spirit
Review routing: Native speaker review

God-breathed prophetic disclosure through the Spirit of Christ, distinct from the Hindu shruti (heard-by-sages) tradition and from Buddhist sutra transmission.

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Mutual Love and Hospitality

Nepali name: आपसी प्रेम र अतिथि-सेवा
Key terms: brotherhood, fellowship, sin
Review routing: Native speaker review

‘Love covers a multitude of sins’ must not be read as love earning merit or forgiveness of sin (a merit-based misreading echoing both Hindu and Buddhist ethical frameworks), but as love’s practical, relational covering of others’ offenses within the church community.

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Low Risk Doctrines

Doxology and Praise

Nepali name: स्तुति र धन्यवाद
Key terms: blessed_doxology, glory, dominion_might
Review routing: Automated review

Standard doxological formula; minor risk of over-ritualization, but no significant syncretism risk.