Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis
This Language Package’s doctrine_risk_registry.json tracks 40 doctrines across Romans 1–16, each assigned a risk tier that drives Phase 2 review routing.
Risk tier summary
| Tier | Count | Review routing | Example doctrines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 7 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Salvation, Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Lordship of Christ, Messianic Promise |
| High | 23 | Human theologian | Gospel, Divine Calling, Grace, Faith, Sanctification, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Evangelism |
| Medium | 7 | Native speaker review | Apostleship, Prayer and Intercession, Spiritual Gifts, Mission to the Nations, Kingdom Mission |
| Low | 3 | Automated review only | Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do, and why Evangelism is unusually High here
The seven Critical-risk doctrines each have at least one, and in several cases two, ready-made fluent-sounding wrong answers drawn independently from Hindu and Buddhist tradition — avatar-descent, reincarnation/rebirth, and nirvana-as-extinguishing-of-self all compete for the same doctrinal ground salvation, incarnation, and resurrection occupy. Evangelism is raised to High risk in this registry (Medium in comparable languages) because Nepal’s current criminal code restricts religious conversion — a live legal exposure that changes the review calculus from cultural sensitivity to legal risk.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (30 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Nepali is fluent to a Hindu-background reader without catching a Buddhist-coded misreading, or vice versa — and because evangelism content specifically carries legal stakes a native-speaker cultural read would not necessarily flag. Native speaker review is sufficient for Medium-risk doctrines, where the concern is cultural fit rather than doctrinal contradiction or legal exposure.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: son of God, declared son, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: co-equal divine nature; must not be softened toward the avatar framework, especially given how recently Nepal’s own head of state carried divine-avatar status.
Incarnation
Nepali name: देहधारण
Key terms: flesh, seed of David, son born, came in flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: never अवतार. This doctrine carries unusually concrete, recent political weight in Nepal, whose Shah-dynasty kings were venerated as living avatars of Vishnu until the monarchy’s 2008 abolition. देहधारण must be taught as a unique, once-for-all act of divine self-disclosure, not a repeatable royal or divine descent.
Lordship of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको प्रभुत्व
Key terms: lord, lord jesus, jesus is lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 is the salvation confession. Exclusive, supreme Lordship, not one honorific among several religious or royal figures.
Messianic Promise
Nepali name: मसीही प्रतिज्ञा
Key terms: messiah, christ, anointed, promised
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: a specific Jewish Old Testament promise fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, not one of several avatars or enlightened teachers.
Resurrection of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: raised, resurrection, from the dead, raised from death
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: bodily, once-for-all resurrection. पुनरुत्थान not पुनर्जन्म; must be distinguished both from Hindu rebirth and from the Buddhist doctrine of karma-driven rebirth across six realms, and from the tulku recognized-reincarnation tradition of Himalayan Buddhism.
Salvation
Nepali name: उद्धार
Key terms: salvation, saved, save, deliverance
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, DUAL-FRONT: never मुक्ति/मोक्ष (Hindu liberation from rebirth) AND never निर्वाण (the Buddhist cessation of craving and self, held by Nepal’s Newar and Himalayan Buddhist communities). Salvation is reconciliation with a personal God through Christ, contradicting both frames independently.
Sonship of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको पुत्रत्व
Key terms: son of God, his son, God’s son
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship; not metaphorical or adoptive sonship, and not a recognized reincarnate-lineage relationship as in the Tibetan Buddhist tulku tradition present in Nepal’s Himalayan communities.
High Risk Doctrines
Adoption into God’s Family
Nepali name: परमेश्वरको परिवारमा दत्तक पुत्रता
Key terms: adoption, spirit of adoption, sons, children of God, abba
Review routing: Human theologian
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights. Guard against a lower-status reading shaped by caste-linked social hierarchy still felt in parts of Nepali society.
Assurance of Salvation
Nepali name: उद्धारको निश्चयता
Key terms: nothing can separate, who shall separate, no condemnation, more than conquerors
Review routing: Human theologian
Assurance rests in God’s unchanging character, not the uncertain, gradual progress toward liberation across possibly many lifetimes shared by Hindu and Buddhist frameworks.
Christian Identity in Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टमा मसीही परिचय
Key terms: in Christ, in Christ Jesus, united with Christ, dead to sin alive to God
Review routing: Human theologian
Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, ethnic heritage, or accumulated karmic status.
Davidic Covenant
Nepali name: दाऊदी करार
Key terms: seed of David, David, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires Old Testament background explanation; no analogous covenantal-promise concept exists in Hindu or Buddhist tradition.
Divine Calling
Nepali name: परमेश्वरको बोलावट
Key terms: called, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call must be distinguished from self-initiated spiritual seeking and from karma-determined destiny shared by both Nepali Hindu and Buddhist frameworks.
Effectual Calling
Nepali name: प्रभावकारी बोलावट
Key terms: called, calling, election, chosen
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not karma-determined destiny or fatalism.
Evangelism
Nepali name: सुसमाचार प्रचार
Key terms: preach, proclaim, evangelize, send, how will they hear
Review routing: Human theologian
Raised above Medium risk for Nepali specifically: Nepal’s 2017 Muluki Criminal Code contains provisions restricting religious conversion and proselytizing, a live, current legal risk distinct from the more purely social sensitivity this doctrine carries in other languages in this pipeline.
Faith
Nepali name: विश्वास
Key terms: faith, believe, belief, trust
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in Christ; distinguish from generalized Hindu/Buddhist devotional reverence (श्रद्धा, भक्ति).
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Nepali name: अगमवाणीको पूर्ति
Key terms: prophecy, promised, foretold, scriptures say
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament), not the cyclical cosmic frame shared by Hindu yuga cosmology and Buddhist cycles of rebirth.
Gospel
Nepali name: सुसमाचार
Key terms: gospel, good news
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be distinguished from a generic positive announcement. The gospel is the unique proclamation of salvation through Christ crucified and risen.
Grace
Nepali name: अनुग्रह
Key terms: grace, unmerited, gift, given freely
Review routing: Human theologian
Unmerited favor directly contradicts the karma-merit accounting shared by Nepali Hindu and Buddhist ethical frameworks; must always reinforce “apart from human merit.”
Humanity of Christ
Nepali name: ख्रीष्टको मानवता
Key terms: born of the seed of David, flesh, human
Review routing: Human theologian
Real, physical human nature; not an illusion, and not a temporary manifestation as in some Hindu/Buddhist frameworks.
Inspiration of Scripture
Nepali name: पवित्रशास्त्रको प्रेरणा
Key terms: scriptures, holy scriptures, prophets
Review routing: Human theologian
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the Hindu concept of shruti (heard by sages) and from Buddhist sutra tradition, both understood very differently from divine authorship through human writers.
Obedience of Faith
Nepali name: विश्वासको आज्ञाकारिता
Key terms: obedience of faith, obedience, faith-produced obedience
Review routing: Human theologian
Obedience flowing from faith, not works-based religious duty that earns standing.
Peace with God
Nepali name: परमेश्वरसँगको शान्ति
Key terms: peace with God, peace, peace through justification
Review routing: Human theologian
Relational, covenantal peace secured through justification, not meditative equanimity achieved through disciplined practice.
Power of God for Salvation
Nepali name: उद्धारको निम्ति परमेश्वरको सामर्थ्य
Key terms: power of God, God’s power
Review routing: Human theologian
सामर्थ्य required, never शक्ति, given the still-practiced Newar Tantric Shakta tradition centered in the Kathmandu Valley.
Providence
Nepali name: परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन
Key terms: all things work together, God works, foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive care; not भाग्य (fate) or the impersonal law of karma shared by Hindu and Buddhist frameworks.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Nepali name: पवित्र जनहरूको बोलावट
Key terms: saints, holy ones, called to be holy
Review routing: Human theologian
All believers are पवित्र जन, not an ascetic elite. सन्त/साधु carry vivid, nationally visible associations with the wandering-ascetic ideal honored at Nepal’s major Hindu shrines.
Sanctification
Nepali name: पवित्रीकरण
Key terms: sanctification, holiness, set apart, holy living
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy; not Hindu ritual purification nor Buddhist meditative self-purification through disciplined practice.
Separation unto God’s Service
Nepali name: परमेश्वरको सेवाको निम्ति अलग गरिएको
Key terms: set apart, separated, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
Must not be confused with the sadhu/renunciate ideal still visibly honored at national shrines such as Pashupatinath, nor with Buddhist monastic withdrawal. Biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining fully engaged in ordinary life.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Nepali name: यहूदी र अन्यजातिहरूको एकता
Key terms: Jew and Gentile, no distinction, one body, olive tree
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy, a legally enforced structure in Nepal within living memory. Must translate with full theological clarity.
Universal Human Accountability
Nepali name: विश्वव्यापी मानवीय उत्तरदायित्व
Key terms: all have sinned, no one is righteous, no distinction, all are accountable
Review routing: Human theologian
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste-based spiritual hierarchy, formerly codified in Nepali state law. Retain universal language without softening.
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Nepali name: सुसमाचारको विश्वव्यापी दायरा
Key terms: everyone who believes, all who call, no distinction, Jew and Gentile
Review routing: Human theologian
No caste barrier to the gospel — directly relevant given caste hierarchy was, until 1963, formally codified in Nepal’s own state legal code (the Muluki Ain). Retain unqualified universality.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship
Nepali name: प्रेरितत्व
Key terms: apostle
Review routing: Native speaker review
Risk of reducing apostleship to a generic guru or lama-style spiritual teacher role.
Christ-Centered Ministry
Nepali name: ख्रीष्ट-केन्द्रित सेवकाई
Key terms: what Christ has accomplished through me, in Christ Jesus, minister of Christ
Review routing: Native speaker review
Ministry done in Christ’s name, by his power, for his glory; not generic humanitarian relief divorced from the gospel, a live risk given how much visible Nepali Christian activity is expressed through NGO-style development and disaster-relief work.
Church as God’s People
Nepali name: परमेश्वरका जनको रूपमा मण्डली
Key terms: body of Christ, one body, church, saints, assembly
Review routing: Native speaker review
New covenant community, not a caste-segregated assembly or ritual institution.
Kingdom Mission
Nepali name: राज्यको मिसन
Key terms: kingdom of God, righteousness peace and joy, advance the kingdom
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or dynastic kingdom.
Mission to the Nations
Nepali name: जातिहरूका निम्ति मिसन
Key terms: nations, gentiles, all peoples, to the ends of the earth
Review routing: Native speaker review
Frame mission as witness and proclamation; open recruitment-style language carries real social sensitivity given Nepal’s history as a declared Hindu Kingdom.
Prayer and Intercession
Nepali name: प्रार्थना र मध्यस्थता
Key terms: prayer, intercession, pray, groan, spirit intercedes
Review routing: Native speaker review
Direct access to God in Christ’s name, distinct from ritual puja worship or intercessory offerings made through a priest at a shrine.
Spiritual Gifts
Nepali name: आत्मिक वरदान
Key terms: spiritual gift, gift, grace gift, measure of faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Spirit-given enablements, not merit-earned powers or tantric siddhi (supernatural attainments), which carry particular cultural currency in the Kathmandu Valley.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship
Nepali name: मसीही सहभागिता
Key terms: fellowship, share, participate, community
Review routing: Automated review
Shared participation in Christ. Given the recent history of restricted Christian practice in Nepal, this term carries the weight of covenant community formed under real legal risk, not mere social friendship.
Mutual Edification
Nepali name: आपसी वृद्धि
Key terms: build up, edify, encourage one another, strengthen
Review routing: Automated review
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Nepali name: धन्यवाद
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks, grateful, thank God
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term. Minor risk of over-ritualization.
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