Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — Hebrews — English → Nepali
This document provides the full doctrine matrix for Hebrews 1–13, consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (same 28 doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing). It supplies the passage-level and chapter-level grounding that the registry’s nepali_risk_notes summarize. Per PRD Phase 1 mandate, coverage spans every chapter of Hebrews; chapters or sections contributing no new doctrine or term are explicitly marked “reviewed — no new doctrinal content” rather than silently omitted.
Part 1: Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Nepali Doctrine Name | Risk | Key Supporting Passages (Hebrews) | Translation Risk Summary | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Superiority of Christ over Angels, Moses, and the Levitical Priesthood | ख्रीष्टको स्वर्गदूत, मोशे, र लेवीय पूजाहारीपदभन्दा श्रेष्ठता | Critical | 1:1-14; 2:2-9; 3:1-6; 7:1-28 | Comparative argument (कृेттоन/उत्तम) must read as absolute, unique supremacy, not “greater among equals” within Nepal’s populated pantheon of devas or its caste-linked priestly hierarchy. | Human theologian |
| 2 | Deity of Christ | ख्रीष्टको ईश्वरत्व | Critical | 1:3, 1:8-9, 4:14 | ”Radiance of God’s glory” and the Son addressed as “God” must not be softened toward the avatar framework recently attached to Nepal’s monarchy. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Sonship of Christ | ख्रीष्टको पुत्रत्व | Critical | 1:2-8; 5:8; 7:3 | जेठा (firstborn) requires a rank/heirship gloss at every occurrence to avoid an Arian-adjacent “first of a series” misreading. | Human theologian |
| 4 | Humanity of Christ | ख्रीष्टको मानवता | High | 2:14-18; 4:15; 5:7-8 | Real, physical human nature, not an illusory or temporary avatar-style descent. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Christ as the Great High Priest | महान् प्रधान पूजाहारीको रूपमा ख्रीष्ट | Critical | 2:17; 4:14-16; 5:1-10; 7:23-28; 9:11-14,24 | प्रधान पूजाहारी shares its root with caste-bound Hindu पुजारी/पुरोहित office; must be taught as unique, non-hereditary, permanently sufficient, and open to all without ritual-class restriction. Curriculum’s central doctrine. | Human theologian |
| 6 | The Order of Melchizedek and Non-Hereditary Priesthood | मेल्कीसेदेकको पदअनुसारको वंश-निर्भर नभएको पूजाहारीपद | High | 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:1-17 | Melchizedek must remain a historical human king-priest used typologically, never read as a divine incarnation/avatar figure himself. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood | लेवीय पूजाहारीपदभन्दा श्रेष्ठता | High | 7:1-28; 8:1-6 | Must read as the definitive termination of the entire hereditary sacrificial priestly category, not a mere denominational replacement. | Human theologian |
| 8 | The New Covenant versus the Old | नयाँ करार पुरानो करारभन्दा उत्तम | High | 8:6-13; 9:1-22; 10:16-18 | करार must not imply the first covenant was a merely human religious system; the 9:16-17 करार/vasiyat wordplay requires a mandatory footnote. | Human theologian |
| 9 | The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice | एकैचोटि सदाको निम्ति गरिएको प्रायश्चित्तको बलिदान | Critical | 9:11-28 (core passage); 10:1-14; 7:27 | Sharpest collision point with Nepal’s living sacrificial religion (Dashain, Gadhimai); एकैचोटि must never soften into “repeated but final” language. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Propitiation and the Nature of Atonement | प्रायश्चित्तको स्वभाव | Critical | 2:17; 9:5 | Reverses the humanly-initiated appeasement paradigm (bali/puja); God himself provides and accomplishes atonement at his own cost and initiative. Shares Critical status with baseline Romans 3:25. | Human theologian |
| 11 | Redemption through Christ’s Blood | ख्रीष्टको रगतद्वारा छुटकारा | Critical | 9:12,15; 11:35 | छुटकारा required; मुक्ति permanently forbidden (identical to Hindu मोक्ष, cyclical liberation). | Human theologian |
| 12 | Access to God through Christ’s Blood | ख्रीष्टको रगतद्वारा परमेश्वरसम्म पहुँच | High | 4:16; 9:1-10,24; 10:19-22; 12:18-24 | Directly reverses Nepal’s restricted-inner-sanctum (गर्भगृह) temple pattern; grants निर्धक्कता (bold, direct access) without a ritual specialist. | Human theologian |
| 13 | The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages | विश्वासबाट पतन हुनुको खतरा र चेतावनीहरू | Critical | 3:12-15; 6:4-8; 10:26-31,38-39; 12:25 | Must convey urgent, decisive, possibly unrecoverable rejection of a personal God, not a gradual loss of momentum within a rebirth-cycle worldview with future chances remaining. 10:38-39 carries live legal/social weight under Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Faith of the Old Testament Saints | पुरानो करारका पवित्र जनहरूको विश्वास | Critical | 11:1-40 | Hebrews 11:1’s definitional निश्चयता/प्रमाण must not collapse into generalized श्रद्धा/भक्ति devotional reverence. Repeated “by faith…” refrain demands absolute consistency. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Perseverance and Assurance | स्थिरता र निश्चयता कायम राख्नु | High | 3:6,14; 6:11-19; 10:23,35-39; 12:1-3 | सहनशीलता must be active, hope-fueled perseverance grounded in God’s oath-secured character, not stoic/karmic resignation. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Sanctification | पवित्रीकरण | High | 2:11; 9:13-14; 10:10,14,29; 12:14; 13:12 | Grounded in Christ’s single finished sacrifice, not gradual self-directed ritual purification or meditative self-cultivation. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Inspiration of Scripture | पवित्रशास्त्रको प्रेरणा | High | 1:1; 3:7; 4:12; 10:15 | परमेश्वरको वचन must be distinguished from Hindu shruti and Buddhist sutra tradition; God-breathed through human writers, personified as living/active. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Resurrection of Christ | ख्रीष्टको पुनरुत्थान | Critical | 6:2; 7:16; 11:35; 13:20 | पुनरुत्थान never पुनर्जन्म. “Indestructible life” (अविनाशी, 7:16) is singular and permanent, not cyclical continuation or tulku-style reincarnation. | Human theologian |
| 19 | Judgment and Eschatology | न्याय र अन्तिम कुराहरू | High | 9:27-28; 10:27; 12:23,28-29 | न्याय is a single, personal divine verdict after a single death, rebutting rebirth-cycle worldviews; never impersonal कर्मको नियम. | Human theologian |
| 20 | Covenant Mediation | करारको मध्यस्थता | High | 7:22,25; 8:6; 9:15; 12:24 | मध्यस्थ must be distinguished from Nepal’s dense landscape of ritual intermediaries (पुजारी/पुरोहित, लामा, झाँक्री/धामी); Christ’s mediatorship is unique, sufficient, final. | Human theologian |
| 21 | The Rest of God | परमेश्वरको विश्राम | High | 3:7-19; 4:1-11 | विश्राम is relational Sabbath-fellowship with a personal God, not moksha-style release from samsara or nirvana-adjacent cessation of self. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Grace | अनुग्रह | High | 2:9; 4:16; 10:29; 12:15,28; 13:9,25 | Never पुण्य/भाग्य. अनुग्रहको सिंहासन (throne of grace, 4:16) must avoid echoing the abolished, avatar-linked royal throne. | Human theologian |
| 23 | God’s Faithfulness through Promise and Oath | प्रतिज्ञा र शपथद्वारा परमेश्वरको विश्वसनीयता | High | 6:13-18; 7:22; 10:23 | God’s own unchanging character guarantees his promise, not external cosmic law/भाग्य, and not a vow-for-boon (व्रत) exchange. | Human theologian |
| 24 | True Worship and Service to God | परमेश्वरको साँचो सेवा र आराधना | High | 9:1,6,9,14,21; 12:28; 13:15-16 | पूजा (Hindu ritual-offering term) must never be used; new-covenant worship is free, unmediated devotion, not ritual-technique transaction or residual merit-offering. | Human theologian |
| 25 | Divine Discipline and Sonship | पितृक अनुशासन र पुत्रत्व | Medium | 12:5-11 | अनुशासन is purposeful, loving fatherly formation evidencing sonship, not karmic retribution (कर्मको फल). | Native speaker review |
| 26 | Church as God’s People | परमेश्वरका जनको रूपमा मण्डली | Medium | 2:12; 10:24-25; 12:23; 13:1-17 | मण्डली/अगुवाहरू as new-covenant community with servant-style leadership, not caste-segregated assembly or priestly-caste hierarchy. | Native speaker review |
| 27 | The Eternal, Unshakeable Kingdom | अनन्त, नडगमगाउने राज्य | Medium | 12:28 | God’s reign is not territorial/dynastic, distinct from Nepal’s recently-ended avatar-linked monarchy. | Native speaker review |
| 28 | Hospitality and Christian Conduct | अतिथि-सत्कार र मसीही व्यवहार | Low | 13:1-6 | Standard practical exhortation; culturally resonant given hospitality’s high value in Nepali society. | Automated review |
Part 2: Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Confirmation
Hebrews 1
Doctrines active: Deity of Christ (1:3,8-9), Sonship of Christ (1:2-8), Superiority over Angels (1:4-14), Inspiration of Scripture (1:1). Establishes the book’s opening Christological thesis; every subsequent comparative argument (chapters 1-7) depends on the absolute claims made here.
Hebrews 2
Doctrines active: Humanity of Christ (2:14-18), Propitiation/Atonement (2:17, ἱλάσκομαι — first occurrence of this Critical term), Superiority over Angels (2:2-9, continued), Salvation (baseline term, 2:3,10), Sanctification (2:11). Introduces the “great high priest” theme that governs chapters 4-10.
Hebrews 3
Doctrines active: Superiority over Moses (3:1-6), The Rest of God (3:7-19, warning begins), Danger of Apostasy (3:12-15, first explicit ἀφίστημι warning), Inspiration of Scripture (3:7, “the Holy Spirit says”), Church as God’s People (3:1, “holy brothers”). Perseverance/Assurance (3:6,14) also introduced here.
Hebrews 4
Doctrines active: The Rest of God (4:1-11, continued), Inspiration of Scripture (4:12, “the word of God is living and active”), Christ as Great High Priest (4:14-16), Access to God (4:16, throne of grace), Grace (4:16). Pivot chapter connecting the warning material (ch. 3) to the priesthood argument (ch. 5-10).
Hebrews 5
Doctrines active: Christ as Great High Priest (5:1-10), Order of Melchizedek (5:6,10, introduced), Humanity of Christ (5:7-8, “learned obedience through suffering”), Sanctification/perfection language (5:14, τέλειος family — reviewed, no separate new doctrine beyond Sanctification).
Hebrews 6
Doctrines active: Danger of Apostasy (6:4-8, the sharpest warning in the book — παραπίπτω), Perseverance and Assurance (6:11-19), God’s Faithfulness through Promise and Oath (6:13-18), Order of Melchizedek (6:20, transitional).
Hebrews 7
Doctrines active: Order of Melchizedek (7:1-17), Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood (7:1-28), Covenant Mediation (7:22,25 — guarantor/intercession introduced), Resurrection of Christ (7:16, “indestructible life,” ἀκατάλυτος). Central priesthood-argument chapter.
Hebrews 8
Doctrines active: New Covenant versus the Old (8:6-13, first full statement, quoting Jeremiah 31), Covenant Mediation (8:6), Christ as Great High Priest (8:1-3, tabernacle framing). Tabernacle/heavenly-sanctuary pattern (8:2,5) reviewed as supporting imagery for doctrine #9 and #12 below, not a separate doctrine.
Hebrews 9 (CORE PASSAGE, 9:11-28)
Doctrines active — highest doctrinal density in the book: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice (9:11-28, thesis statement of the whole passage), Propitiation and Atonement (9:5, mercy seat), Redemption through Christ’s Blood (9:12,15), New Covenant versus the Old (9:15-22, including the mandatory 9:16-17 करार/testament wordplay footnote), Access to God through Christ’s Blood (9:1-10,24), Christ as Great High Priest (9:11,24-25), Judgment and Eschatology (9:27-28, “it is appointed for man to die once”), True Worship and Service to God (9:1,6,9,14,21). This chapter is the theological anchor of the entire curriculum and requires the highest concentration of theologian review in Phase 2.
Hebrews 10
Doctrines active: The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice (10:1-14, continued argument), Sanctification (10:10,14,29), Access to God through Christ’s Blood (10:19-22, “new and living way”), Danger of Apostasy (10:26-31, “sinning deliberately,” and 10:38-39, “shrinking back”), Perseverance and Assurance (10:23,35-39), Judgment and Eschatology (10:27), Church as God’s People (10:24-25, “not neglecting to meet together”).
Hebrews 11
Doctrines active: Faith of the Old Testament Saints (11:1-40, entire chapter — the book’s defining faith doctrine), Redemption through Christ’s Blood (11:35, “better resurrection”). Proper names newly established for this chapter (Abel, Enoch, Noah, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Rahab, Gideon, Samson, Samuel) are documented in 08_core_glossary.md Section B.7 and require no additional doctrinal entries.
Hebrews 12
Doctrines active: Perseverance and Assurance (12:1-3), Divine Discipline and Sonship (12:5-11), Danger of Apostasy (12:25, closing warning), Access to God through Christ’s Blood (12:18-24, Zion versus Sinai contrast), Judgment and Eschatology (12:23,28-29, “consuming fire”), The Eternal, Unshakeable Kingdom (12:28).
Hebrews 13
Doctrines active: True Worship and Service to God (13:15-16, “sacrifice of praise”), Church as God’s People (13:1-17, leaders, assembly life), Hospitality and Christian Conduct (13:1-6), Grace (13:9,25, closing benediction), Covenant Mediation / Resurrection of Christ (13:20, “blood of the eternal covenant… brought back from the dead” — closing doxological summary of both doctrines, reviewed as reinforcement rather than new content).
Part 3: Risk Summary (Consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json)
| Risk Tier | Doctrine Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 10 | Human theologian, every occurrence |
| High | 14 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 3 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 1 | Automated review |
| Total | 28 | 24 theologian / 3 native speaker / 1 automated |
Note on concentration: Hebrews 9 (the core passage) alone carries active instances of 8 of the 28 registry doctrines, including 5 of the 10 Critical-tier doctrines (Christ as Great High Priest, Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice, Propitiation and Atonement, Redemption, and — via 9:27-28 — Judgment and Eschatology’s Critical-adjacent High tier). Phase 2 segment processing of Hebrews 9:11-28 should anticipate the highest per-verse theologian-review load in the entire curriculum.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Superiority of Christ over Angels, Moses, and the Levitical Priesthood
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको स्वर्गदूत, मोशे, र लेवीय पूजाहारीपदभन्दा श्रेष्ठता
Key terms: better/superior (κρείττων), angel, firstborn, high priest, priest
Review routing: Human theologian
This comparative argument risks two distinct collisions at once: (1) स्वर्गदूत (angel) must be kept clearly subordinate and created, not one of Nepal’s populated pantheon of devas/celestial protector-beings whom Christ might then be read as merely ‘greater among’; (2) पूजाहारी (priest) shares its root with Hindu पुजारी, and Nepal’s priestly office is historically caste-bound. A softened comparative (‘somewhat better than’) rather than an absolute claim of unique supremacy would undermine the entire book’s argument. Human theologian review required for every occurrence.
Deity of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: son of God, glory, radiance of God’s glory, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
Hebrews 1:3 (‘the radiance of the glory of God, the exact imprint of his nature’) and 1:8 (the Son addressed as ‘God’) are among the highest Christological statements in the NT. Must not be softened toward the avatar framework, especially given how recently Nepal’s own head of state carried divine-avatar status (Shah-dynasty kings venerated as living avatars of Vishnu until 2008). Christ’s deity is eternal and essential, not a temporary or partial divine manifestation.
Sonship of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको पुत्रत्व
Key terms: son of God, firstborn, begotten
Review routing: Human theologian
जेठा (firstborn, 1:6; 12:23) risks an Arian-adjacent misreading implying Christ came into existence as first of a series of similar beings, which would contradict eternal, unique Sonship. A translator/teaching note distinguishing rank/heirship from chronological origin is required at every occurrence, consistent with the baseline’s existing caution against देवपुत्र.
Christ as the Great High Priest
Nepali name: महान् प्रधान पूजाहारीको रूपमा ख्रीष्ट
Key terms: high priest, propitiation, mercy seat, intercession, mediator
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रधान पूजाहारी shares its root with Hindu पुजारी, and Nepal’s priestly office is historically caste-bound (Brahmin ritual monopoly), directly paralleling the धर्म/Muluki Ain concern already flagged in the baseline for righteousness. This doctrine must be taught as Christ’s unique, non-caste, once-for-all, permanently sufficient priesthood open to all believers without ritual-class restriction — the book’s central curriculum doctrine.
The Once-for-All Atoning Sacrifice
Nepali name: एकैचोटि सदाको निम्ति गरिएको प्रायश्चित्तको बलिदान
Key terms: sacrifice, blood, once for all, to put away sin
Review routing: Human theologian
This is the single sharpest collision point in the whole book with Nepal’s living sacrificial religion: Nepal hosts large-scale, mainstream ritual animal blood sacrifice (Dashain’s household goat/buffalo sacrifice to Durga; the Gadhimai festival, among the largest animal-sacrifice events in the world). एकैचोटि (once-for-all) must never be softened to ‘again and again but finally’ language, and बलिदान/रगत applied to Christ must always read as terminating, not extending, the ongoing blood-offering paradigm familiar to the audience.
Propitiation and the Nature of Atonement
Nepali name: प्रायश्चित्तको स्वभाव
Key terms: propitiation, mercy seat, to make atonement
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रायश्चित्त गर्नु (2:17) and प्रायश्चित्तको स्थान (9:5) sit at the direct collision point with Hindu bali (animal sacrifice to appease/please a deity, visible at Gadhimai and Dashain). Hebrews’ doctrine is the reverse of humanly-initiated ritual appeasement: God himself, in Christ, provides and accomplishes the atonement at his own initiative and cost. This shares the same Critical designation as Romans 3:25’s ἱλαστήριον, already flagged in the baseline AI Translation Requirements for mandatory escalation.
Redemption through Christ’s Blood
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको रगतद्वारा छुटकारा
Key terms: redemption, eternal redemption, blood
Review routing: Human theologian
The natural Nepali word closest to ‘redemption/liberation’ is मुक्ति, explicitly and permanently forbidden by the baseline due to its direct identity with Hindu मोक्ष (liberation from the cycle of rebirth). छुटकारा must be used consistently; any drift toward मुक्ति-adjacent phrasing would recast Christ’s redemption as one more path within a cyclical liberation framework rather than a personal, historical, once-for-all deliverance.
The Danger of Apostasy and Warning Passages
Nepali name: विश्वासबाट पतन हुनुको खतरा र चेतावनीहरू
Key terms: to fall away, to fall away decisively, to sin deliberately, to shrink back, hardened heart
Review routing: Human theologian
These warnings must convey a real, urgent, decisive possibility of a hardened, unrecoverable rejection of a personal, living God — not a gradual loss of momentum on a path where further chances always remain structurally available across future lifetimes, as karma/rebirth-cycle frameworks might imply. The severity of 6:4-8 (‘impossible to restore’) must never be softened for pastoral comfort. Additionally, 10:38-39’s ‘shrinking back’ carries live, present-day weight given Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code provisions restricting religious conversion, making public perseverance a genuine social and legal risk for this audience, not merely a historical one.
Faith of the Old Testament Saints
Nepali name: पुरानो करारका पवित्र जनहरूको विश्वास
Key terms: assurance/substance of faith, conviction/evidence of faith, faith, promise
Review routing: Human theologian
Hebrews 11:1 is the Bible’s definitional statement of faith, resting on निश्चयता (objective ground of confidence) and प्रमाण (evidential conviction) rather than mere subjective hopefulness. A softened rendering would collapse विश्वास into generalized Hindu/Buddhist devotional reverence (श्रद्धा/भक्ति) — exactly the distinction the baseline’s faith entry protects against. The whole chapter’s repeated ‘by faith…’ refrain requires absolute consistency with the baseline-established विश्वास.
Resurrection of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: resurrection, indestructible life, raised from the dead
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses baseline पुनरुत्थान exactly; never पुनर्जन्म. Christ’s ‘indestructible life’ (7:16, अविनाशी) grounding his permanent priesthood must be understood as a singular, permanently secured resurrected existence, not a cyclical continuation through repeated death-and-rebirth as in Hindu or Buddhist frameworks, including the tulku recognized-reincarnation tradition of Himalayan Buddhism.
High Risk Doctrines
Humanity of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको मानवता
Key terms: flesh and blood, temptation, suffering, learned obedience
Review routing: Human theologian
Christ’s high priesthood is grounded in genuine human experience of temptation and suffering (2:17-18; 4:15). Must be conveyed as real, physical human nature, not an illusion or a temporary manifestation as in Hindu avatar descent or certain Buddhist docetic-adjacent readings of a teacher’s earthly appearance.
The Order of Melchizedek and Non-Hereditary Priesthood
Nepali name: मेल्कीसेदेकको पदअनुसारको वंश-निर्भर नभएको पूजाहारीपद
Key terms: Melchizedek, indestructible life, unchangeable priesthood
Review routing: Human theologian
Melchizedek’s lack of recorded genealogy typologically pictures a priesthood independent of hereditary/tribal descent — directly relevant to dismantling caste-linked priestly-office assumptions still visible in Nepal’s Brahmin ritual monopoly. Care is needed that मेल्कीसेदेक not be read as a divine incarnation or avatar-figure himself; he is a historical human king-priest used typologically.
Superiority over the Levitical Priesthood
Nepali name: लेवीय पूजाहारीपदभन्दा श्रेष्ठता
Key terms: Levite, priest, law, better hope
Review routing: Human theologian
The argument that the Levitical priesthood, being mortal and repeatedly replaced, is inherently inferior to Christ’s permanent priesthood must not be read as merely one denomination’s ritual system being replaced by another; it is the definitive termination of the entire hereditary sacrificial priestly category.
The New Covenant versus the Old
Nepali name: नयाँ करार पुरानो करारभन्दा उत्तम
Key terms: covenant, new covenant, first covenant, mediator, obsolete
Review routing: Human theologian
करार (baseline, High) must not be read as implying the first covenant was a merely human religious system alongside other equally human systems; it was itself God-given, though provisional, now rendered obsolete by a better one. Additionally, the covenant/testament wordplay at 9:16-17 requires a mandatory footnote, since करार does not naturally carry the Nepali legal ‘will that takes effect upon death’ sense the Greek argument depends on.
Access to God through Christ’s Blood
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको रगतद्वारा परमेश्वरसम्म पहुँच
Key terms: to draw near, confidence/boldness, holy place, throne of grace, veil
Review routing: Human theologian
Nepal’s major Hindu temple architecture structures a restricted innermost sanctum (गर्भगृह) accessible only to designated priests, with outer devotees and at some shrines non-Hindus kept at a physical remove. Hebrews’ entire argument is that Christ has torn down exactly this kind of graduated, priest-mediated access structure, granting निर्धक्कता (bold, direct access) to every believer without ritual specialist mediation. This is a live, culturally resonant point, not an antiquarian OT detail.
Perseverance and Assurance
Nepali name: स्थिरता र निश्चयता कायम राख्नु
Key terms: endurance, confession, anchor of hope, hold fast
Review routing: Human theologian
सहनशीलता (endurance) must be conveyed as active, hope-fueled perseverance grounded in God’s certain, unchanging character and oath (6:16-18), not stoic or karmic resignation to one’s circumstances. Assurance rests on God’s unchanging character and Christ’s finished, once-for-all work, not gradual progress toward liberation across possibly many lifetimes.
Sanctification
Nepali name: पवित्रीकरण
Key terms: sanctification, holy, to perfect, purification, conscience
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses baseline पवित्रीकरण exactly. Hebrews grounds sanctification specifically in Christ’s single, finished sacrifice, not a gradual, self-directed purification process resembling Hindu ritual purification (शुद्धिकरण in its ceremonial sense) or Buddhist meditative self-cultivation toward attainment (सिद्धता/अरहत् frameworks).
Inspiration of Scripture
Nepali name: पवित्रशास्त्रको प्रेरणा
Key terms: word of God, God spoke, Holy Spirit says, prophets
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses baseline doctrine framework exactly. परमेश्वरको वचन (‘the word of God is living and active,’ 4:12) must be distinguished from the Hindu concept of shruti (eternally ‘heard’ by sages) and from Buddhist sutra tradition — God-breathed Scripture through human writers, personified as a living, penetrating divine agent, not merely inspirational literature.
Judgment and Eschatology
Nepali name: न्याय र अन्तिम कुराहरू
Key terms: judgment, consuming fire, unshakeable kingdom, second coming
Review routing: Human theologian
न्याय (9:27, ‘it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment’) must be conveyed as a single, personal divine verdict following a single death, directly rebutting a rebirth-cycle worldview — not the impersonal, self-executing law of karmic cause-and-effect (कर्मको नियम) already explicitly forbidden in the baseline for ‘providence.‘
Covenant Mediation
Nepali name: करारको मध्यस्थता
Key terms: mediator, guarantor, intercession
Review routing: Human theologian
मध्यस्थ must be clearly distinguished from Nepal’s dense landscape of ritual intermediaries — Hindu पुजारी/पुरोहित, Buddhist लामा, and shamanic झाँक्री/धामी — who mediate between ordinary people and the divine/spirit world through ritual technique. Christ’s mediatorship is unique, sufficient, and permanently established; no further human mediator is needed or permitted after him.
The Rest of God
Nepali name: परमेश्वरको विश्राम
Key terms: rest, Sabbath rest, hardened heart
Review routing: Human theologian
विश्राम is adjacent to the Critical-risk baseline salvation entry; God’s promised rest is fellowship and Sabbath-shalom with a personal God who himself rested (Gen. 2:2), not moksha-style release from the wearying cycle of samsara or nirvana-adjacent cessation of self, both already Critical-risk concepts in the baseline salvation doctrine.
Grace
Nepali name: अनुग्रह
Key terms: grace, throne of grace, grace of God
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses baseline अनुग्रह exactly; never पुण्य or भाग्य. अनुग्रहको सिंहासन (4:16, ‘throne of grace’) additionally requires care that सिंहासन not echo Nepal’s abolished, avatar-linked royal throne concept, in which the king was enthroned as a living avatar of Vishnu until 2008.
God’s Faithfulness through Promise and Oath
Nepali name: प्रतिज्ञा र शपथद्वारा परमेश्वरको विश्वसनीयता
Key terms: promise, oath, guarantor, unchangeable character
Review routing: Human theologian
Reinforces the baseline’s providence doctrine (परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन, High): God’s own unchanging character is the guarantor of his promise, doubly secured by an oath — not an externally imposed cosmic law or fate (भाग्य), and not a negotiated exchange resembling a devotional vow-for-boon (व्रत) transaction.
True Worship and Service to God
Nepali name: परमेश्वरको साँचो सेवा र आराधना
Key terms: service, worship, sacrifice of praise, acceptable worship
Review routing: Human theologian
पूजा (the specific Hindu ritual-offering term for presenting offerings to a deity or image) must never be used for सेवा/आराधना. True worship under the new covenant is free, unmediated devotion and grateful praise, not a ritual-technique transaction with a deity, and not a residual works-merit offering.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Divine Discipline and Sonship
Nepali name: पितृक अनुशासन र पुत्रत्व
Key terms: discipline, sons, father
Review routing: Native speaker review
अनुशासन must read as purposeful, loving fatherly formation evidencing sonship and love (connecting to the baseline’s adoption doctrine, दत्तक पुत्रता), not karmic retribution or impersonal cosmic payback (कर्मको फल) for past wrongdoing.
Church as God’s People
Nepali name: परमेश्वरका जनको रूपमा मण्डली
Key terms: church, assembly of the firstborn, leaders, fellowship
Review routing: Native speaker review
मण्डली and अगुवाहरू (leaders) must be conveyed as a new covenant community with accountable, servant-style pastoral leadership, not a caste-segregated assembly or a hierarchical priestly-caste office paralleling ऱ्ourजाहारी/lama structures.
The Eternal, Unshakeable Kingdom
Nepali name: अनन्त, नडगमगाउने राज्य
Key terms: unshakeable kingdom, kingdom of God
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reinforces baseline’s kingdom_of_god doctrine: God’s permanent reign is not a territorial or dynastic kingdom, a distinction worth making explicit given Nepal’s own recently-ended, avatar-linked monarchy (abolished 2008).
Low Risk Doctrines
Hospitality and Christian Conduct
Nepali name: अतिथि-सत्कार र मसीही व्यवहार
Key terms: hospitality, marriage, love of money, leaders
Review routing: Automated review
Standard practical exhortations; culturally resonant given hospitality’s high value in Nepali society. Minor risk of over-generalization only.
Referenced passages