Doctrine Analysis
Acts — Full Doctrine Analysis (Punjabi)
Curriculum: Acts 1–28
Destination language: Punjabi (Gurmukhi script)
Core passage (theological anchor, not scope boundary): Acts 2:1-41
Authority: This document is fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json — identical doctrine set, identical risk tiers, identical review routing. It extends that registry with a chapter-by-chapter coverage map demonstrating full-book analysis per the PRD Phase 1 mandate. No doctrine, risk tier, or routing decision in this document contradicts the registry or the baseline Romans Language Package.
Method
Every doctrine below was identified from its supporting passages across the full sweep of Acts 1–28, not from the core passage alone. Risk tiers follow the baseline’s four-tier definition exactly:
| Tier | Definition | Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Mistranslation alters or destroys essential doctrine | Human theologian, every occurrence |
| High | Mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or syncretism risk | Human theologian |
| Medium | Mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning | Native speaker review |
| Low | Mistranslation causes minor misunderstanding | Automated review |
Section A presents the full doctrine matrix. Section B maps every chapter of Acts to the doctrines active within it, so that full-book coverage is auditable chapter by chapter. Chapters contributing no newly-cited doctrinal passage are explicitly noted as reviewed rather than silently omitted.
Section A — Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Risk | Key Terms | Primary Passages (Acts) | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | Critical | Holy Spirit; filled with the Holy Spirit; tongues of fire; Pentecost; gift of the Holy Spirit | 1:5; 2:1-4; 2:17-18; 2:33; 2:38; 10:44-47; 15:8; 19:2-6 | Must not be confused with Sikh ਜੋਤ (sequential divine-light transmission through the Ten Gurus) nor read as a trance/possession phenomenon familiar from Punjabi folk religion. Pentecost is a decisive, once-for-all inauguration of simultaneous indwelling in every believer, not a repeatable meditative attainment. | Human theologian |
| 2 | The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | High | gentiles; gospel; God-fearer; no partiality; clean/unclean | 1:8; 10:1-48; 11:1-18; 13:46-47; 15:1-29; 28:28 | Touches Punjab’s own caste-linked purity-impurity discourse; must convey God’s decisive removal of ethnic/ritual barriers without softening for caste- or qaum-identity comfort. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Repentance and Baptism | High | repent; baptism; forgiveness of sins; John’s baptism | 2:38; 3:19; 8:12-13; 8:36-38; 9:18; 10:47-48; 16:15; 16:33; 19:3-5; 22:16 | ਤੋਬਾ shares Perso-Arabic/Sufi usage and must be anchored to specific gospel content, not generic remorse. ਬਪਤਿਸਮਾ must be a sign/seal of salvation already received through faith, explicitly distinct from Sikh Amrit Sanchar despite surface resemblance as an identity-marking rite. | Human theologian |
| 4 | The Church as Community | Medium | fellowship; breaking of bread; all things in common; church; elder; overseer; shepherd | 2:42-47; 4:32-35; 6:1-6; 11:19-26; 14:23; 20:17-35 | ਸੰਗਤ/ਸਾਂਝਾ offer a genuine positive bridge to Sikh langar/sangat practice, but voluntary grace-motivated generosity must not be read as obligatory redistribution, nor office terms as caste-like hierarchy. | Native speaker review |
| 5 | Apostolic Authority and Miracles | High | apostle; signs and wonders; power of God; laying on of hands | 2:43; 3:1-10; 4:33; 5:12-16; 6:8; 8:6-7; 8:13; 14:3; 15:12; 19:11-12 | Never ਕਰਾਮਾਤ (Sufi pir/saint-miracle term embedded in Punjabi popular piety), never conflated with yogic siddhi-attainment; these are God’s own authenticating acts, not apostolic acquired power. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Persecution and Bold Witness | High | witness; boldness; persecution; martyr; Sanhedrin | 4:1-31; 5:17-42; 6:8-15; 7:54-60; 8:1-3; 12:1-19; 14:19-20 | ਸ਼ਹੀਦ carries major weight via Sikh ਸ਼ਹੀਦੀ, tied to righteous armed struggle (ਧਰਮ ਯੁੱਧ) and communal defense. Christian martyrdom here is suffering witness entrusted to God’s sovereignty without resistance — explicitly distinct. ਦਲੇਰੀ is Spirit-given courage, not martial valor. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Conversion of Paul | High | vision; chosen instrument; election; the Way | 9:1-19; 22:3-21; 26:9-18 | ਦਰਸ਼ਨ (retained with mandatory gloss) must be distinguished from Hindu/Sikh devotional darshan (beholding-and-being-blessed). “Chosen instrument” must never read as impersonal ਕਿਸਮਤ. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Justification apart from the Law | Critical | justification; law; circumcision; yoke; grace | 13:38-39; 15:1-11; 15:28-29 | The Jerusalem Council’s rejection of circumcision (ਸੁੰਨਤ, shared with Islamic usage) as a salvation requirement directly parallels the baseline’s rejection of works-based ਧਰਮ; never abbreviate ਧਰਮੀ ਠਹਿਰਾਇਆ ਜਾਣਾ to ਮਾਫ਼ੀ alone. | Human theologian |
| 9 | The Great Commission Fulfilled | Medium | ends of the earth; kingdom of God; light to the nations; unhindered; mission | 1:8; 13:47; 28:23; 28:31 | Total geographic/ethnic universality must be preserved; avoid ਜੋਤ-adjacent vocabulary for “light to the nations.” | Native speaker review |
| 10 | Resurrection of Christ (and the General Resurrection) | Critical | resurrection; raised; Hades | 2:24-32; 4:2; 4:33; 13:30-37; 17:31-32; 23:6-8; 24:15; 24:21; 26:23 | Never ਪੁਨਰ-ਜਨਮ or ਆਵਾਗਵਣ; bodily, once-for-all resurrection ending the death-cycle. Extends to the general-resurrection debate with the Sadducees (23:6-8), equally never assimilated to reincarnation frameworks. | Human theologian |
| 11 | Lordship of Christ | Critical | Lord; Jesus is Lord; right hand of God; calling on the name of the Lord | 2:33; 2:36; 2:21; 2:38; 4:12; 10:36; 16:31 | Never ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ; never one guru-figure’s authority among others. “Calling on the name of the Lord” (2:21, 38; 4:12; 22:16) requires mandatory gloss distinguishing this decisive one-time confession from Sikh Naam-simran. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Deity and Sonship of Christ | Critical | Son of God; Holy and Righteous One; Author of life; glory | 3:13-15; 7:55-56; 9:20; 13:33 | Co-equal divine nature/unique Sonship must not soften toward Hindu avatar-plurality or Sikh highly-realized-soul/Guru framing. “Author of life” must not flatten into a founder-figure among founders (parallels baseline’s ਗੁਰੂ caution). | Human theologian |
| 13 | Messianic Promise | Critical | messiah; seed of David; fulfilled prophecy | 2:30-31; 2:36; 3:18; 9:22; 13:23; 13:32-33; 17:3; 18:5; 18:28 | The specific Jewish OT promise fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, not one of several avatars, prophets, or gurus in a lineage of divine messengers. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Davidic Covenant | High | David; seed of David; patriarch; covenant | 2:25-31; 13:22-23; 13:34-37; 15:16 | Requires OT covenant background explanation; no analogous concept in Sikh/Hindu tradition; Guru-lineage succession must not substitute as an explanatory frame. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Fulfillment of Prophecy | High | prophet; prophecy; last days; day of the Lord; restoration of all things | 2:16-21; 3:18; 3:21; 3:24; 13:27; 13:40-41; 15:15-18; 26:22-23; 28:23 | Linear historical fulfillment, never a cyclical cosmic frame from Hindu yuga cosmology or ਆਵਾਗਵਣ. “Restoration of all things” is a single future consummation, never cyclical renewal. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Providence | High | determined plan and foreknowledge; angel; providence; safety (non-technical) | 2:23; 4:28; 12:1-19; 27:21-25; 27:34; 27:44 | Never ਕਿਸਮਤ (impersonal fate). Acts 27:34’s non-technical “safety” (ਬਚਾਅ) must NOT be rendered with technical ਮੁਕਤੀ. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Grace | High | grace; gift of the Holy Spirit; gift of God | 4:33; 6:8; 8:18-24; 11:23; 13:43; 14:26; 15:11; 18:27; 20:24; 20:32 | Simon Magus (8:18-24) is the sharpest contrast-passage: grace must preserve absolute impossibility of purchasing/earning God’s gift, never flowing through Guru-mediation or Naam-simran. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Faith | High | faith; believe | 3:16; 10:43; 13:39; 13:48; 14:27; 16:31; 20:21; 26:18 | Personal trust in the risen Christ specifically, not ਸ਼ਰਧਾ (devotional reverence) or ਸਿਦਕ (Sufi-idiom steadfastness). Acts 16:30-31 is the clearest evangelistic exchange in the book. | Human theologian |
| 19 | Salvation | Critical | salvation; saved; calling on the name of the Lord | 2:21; 2:40; 2:47; 4:12; 11:14; 13:26; 13:47; 16:30-31 | Every load-bearing occurrence of ਮੁਕਤੀ requires the mandatory clarifying gloss (Christian decisive reconciliation vs. Sikh gradual release from ਆਵਾਗਵਣ). 16:30-31 must carry this gloss without exception; 27:34’s non-technical “safety” usage must NOT be conflated with this doctrine. | Human theologian |
| 20 | Inspiration of Scripture | High | Scripture; examining the Scriptures | 8:32-35; 17:2; 17:11; 18:24; 18:28 | Distinguish God-breathed Scripture, human-authored under divine guidance and requiring faithful interpretation (Philip, the Bereans), from the Sikh doctrine of the Guru Granth Sahib as the eternal, living Guru. | Human theologian |
| 21 | Unity of Jews and Gentiles | High | no partiality; clean/unclean; circumcision; God-fearer | 10:1-11:18; 15:1-29 | Directly challenges caste and communal-identity hierarchy still present in Punjabi society despite Sikhism’s own formal rejection of caste; no softening for social comfort. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Universal Human Accountability | High | partiality; judgment to come; idols | 10:34-35; 17:30-31; 24:25 | All humanity equally accountable before God regardless of religious-community membership; future personal divine judgment (ਨਿਆਂ) must not be read as impersonal karma-consequence. | Human theologian |
| 23 | Spiritual Conflict and Occult Power | High | sorcery; spirit of divination; magic scrolls | 8:9-24; 13:6-11; 16:16-18; 19:13-19 | Given prevalence of astrology (ਜੋਤਸ਼), amulets, and folk fortune-telling in Punjabi popular religion, occult powers must be unambiguously identified as evil and categorically opposed to the Holy Spirit’s genuine power, never a lesser “spiritual gift.” | Human theologian |
| 24 | Idolatry and True Worship | High | idols; unknown god; gods Zeus and Hermes | 14:11-18; 17:16-31; 19:23-41; 28:6 | Direct collision with Hindu image-worship (murti puja); Paul’s “unknown god” altar (17:23) is a rhetorical apologetic bridge into proclaiming ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ specifically, never an endorsement of deity-plurality. Note partial, non-total overlap with Sikh anti-idolatry stance. | Human theologian |
| 25 | ”The Way” as the Exclusive Path of Salvation | High | the Way | 9:2; 18:25-26; 19:9; 19:23; 22:4; 24:14; 24:22 | South Asian “many paths” (bahu-marg) comfort must not be imported; “the Way” is the singular way of salvation through the risen, exclusive Lord Jesus. Requires an explicit theological bridge wherever it occurs, not vocabulary substitution alone. | Human theologian |
| 26 | Divine Guidance through Vision | High | vision; laying on of hands | 9:3-12; 10:3-6; 10:10-16; 16:9-10; 18:9-10; 26:19 | ਦਰਸ਼ਨ retained with mandatory gloss: a one-time, sovereign divine disclosure of information/direction for gospel mission, not the devotional beholding-and-being-blessed encounter of Hindu/Sikh darshan. | Human theologian |
| 27 | Election and Effectual Calling | High | called; calling; chosen instrument; election | 1:24-26; 9:15; 13:2; 13:48; 16:14 | God’s sovereign, personal choice and summons must never be rendered with ਕਿਸਮਤ (impersonal fate); consistent with baseline election. | Human theologian |
| 28 | Church Leadership and Order | Medium | overseer; elder; shepherd; apostolic decree | 6:1-6; 14:23; 15:22-29; 20:17-31 | Office terms carry low doctrinal collision but must not suggest caste-like hierarchy among believers; “apostolic decree” (ਰਸੂਲਾਂ ਦਾ ਫ਼ੈਸਲਾ) must deliberately avoid ਹੁਕਮ, reserved per baseline for Waheguru’s Divine Order. | Native speaker review |
| 29 | Holiness and Ritual Purity | High | clean/unclean; holy; sanctification | 10:9-16; 10:28; 15:9; 20:32; 26:18 | Reversal of Mosaic purity categories touches Punjab’s own purity-impurity discourse tied historically to caste and untouchability; conveys God’s decisive abolition of ritual barriers, while noting the positive-but-non-equivalent parallel with Sikh langar commensality. | Human theologian |
| 30 | Thanksgiving and Mutual Encouragement | Low | thanksgiving; boldness; encourage | 27:35; 28:15 | Standard low-risk vocabulary; minor risk of over-ritualization only. | Automated review |
Risk tier totals (must match doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly):
| Tier | Count |
|---|---|
| Critical | 7 |
| High | 19 |
| Medium | 3 |
| Low | 1 |
| Total doctrines | 30 |
| Requiring human theologian review | 26 |
| Requiring native speaker review | 3 |
| Requiring automated review only | 1 |
Section B — Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Coverage Map (Acts 1–28)
This section confirms full-book coverage by mapping every chapter of Acts to the doctrines active within it, per the passages cited in Section A. Chapters that cite no doctrine passage directly are explicitly marked [REVIEWED — continuity, no new doctrine citation] rather than silently omitted; their content reuses doctrines already load-bearing in surrounding chapters.
| Ch. | Doctrines Active (from Section A) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Commission Fulfilled; The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (1:8); The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (1:5, promise); Election and Effectual Calling (1:24-26, choice of Matthias) | Programmatic Acts 1:8 verse anchors the book’s missionary scope; ascension (Table B term, not a separate registry doctrine) reinforces Deity of Christ framing established at Christology entries. |
| 2 | CORE PASSAGE. The Holy Spirit and Pentecost; Repentance and Baptism; The Church as Community; Apostolic Authority and Miracles; Resurrection of Christ; Lordship of Christ; Messianic Promise; Davidic Covenant; Fulfillment of Prophecy; Providence; Salvation | Highest doctrinal density chapter in the book; every Critical-tier doctrine except Deity/Sonship, Justification apart from Law is directly present. Peter’s sermon (2:14-41) is the theological anchor of the entire curriculum. |
| 3 | Repentance and Baptism (3:19); Deity and Sonship of Christ (3:13-15); Messianic Promise (3:18); Fulfillment of Prophecy (3:18, 21, 24); Faith (3:16); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (3:1-10, healing of the lame man) | Peter’s second sermon reinforces the Christological titles (“Holy and Righteous One,” “Author of life”) flagged as High risk in the glossary. |
| 4 | The Church as Community; Apostolic Authority and Miracles; Persecution and Bold Witness; Resurrection of Christ; Lordship of Christ; Providence; Grace; Salvation | Peter and John before the Sanhedrin (4:12) is the book’s other primary “salvation” proof-text alongside 2:21 and 16:31. |
| 5 | Apostolic Authority and Miracles (5:12-16); Persecution and Bold Witness (5:17-42) | Ananias and Sapphira; second Sanhedrin confrontation reinforces bold-witness pattern. |
| 6 | The Church as Community; Apostolic Authority and Miracles; Persecution and Bold Witness; Grace; Church Leadership and Order | Institution of the Seven; Stephen’s arrest begins. |
| 7 | Persecution and Bold Witness (7:54-60); Deity and Sonship of Christ (7:55-56, Stephen’s vision of Christ’s glory) | Stephen’s martyrdom is the paradigm case for the ਸ਼ਹੀਦ/ਗਵਾਹ distinction from Sikh ਸ਼ਹੀਦੀ. |
| 8 | Repentance and Baptism; Apostolic Authority and Miracles; Persecution and Bold Witness; Grace; Inspiration of Scripture; Spiritual Conflict and Occult Power | Simon Magus (8:18-24) is the book’s sharpest grace-cannot-be-purchased episode; Philip and the Ethiopian models faithful Scripture interpretation. |
| 9 | Repentance and Baptism (9:18); Conversion of Paul; Deity and Sonship of Christ (9:20); Messianic Promise (9:22); “The Way” (9:2); Divine Guidance through Vision (9:3-12); Election and Effectual Calling (9:15) | Saul’s Damascus-road conversion; concentrates the highest number of distinct High/Critical doctrines outside chapter 2. |
| 10 | The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (10:44-47); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles; Repentance and Baptism (10:47-48); Lordship of Christ (10:36); Faith (10:43); Unity of Jews and Gentiles; Universal Human Accountability (10:34-35); Divine Guidance through Vision (10:3-6, 10-16); Holiness and Ritual Purity (10:9-16, 28) | Cornelius narrative; the Gentile Pentecost. |
| 11 | The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (11:1-18); The Church as Community (11:19-26); Grace (11:23); Unity of Jews and Gentiles; Salvation (11:14) | Jerusalem’s acceptance of Gentile inclusion; founding of the Antioch church; first use of “Christians” (ਮਸੀਹੀ). |
| 12 | Persecution and Bold Witness (12:1-19); Providence (12:1-19) | Herod’s persecution and Peter’s angelic deliverance; no new doctrine beyond continuity of Persecution and Providence already established — consistent with the glossary’s note that ch. 12 introduces no new load-bearing vocabulary. |
| 13 | The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (13:46-47); Justification apart from the Law (13:38-39); Great Commission Fulfilled (13:47); Resurrection of Christ (13:30-37); Deity and Sonship of Christ (13:33); Messianic Promise (13:23, 32-33); Davidic Covenant (13:22-23, 34-37); Fulfillment of Prophecy (13:27, 40-41); Grace (13:43); Faith (13:39, 48); Salvation (13:26, 47); Spiritual Conflict and Occult Power (13:6-11); Election and Effectual Calling (13:2, 48) | Paul’s Antioch (Pisidia) sermon is a second full-scale gospel proclamation, second only to Acts 2 in doctrinal density; Elymas the sorcerer parallels Simon Magus. |
| 14 | The Church as Community (14:23); Persecution and Bold Witness (14:19-20); Grace (14:26); Faith (14:27); Idolatry and True Worship (14:11-18); Church Leadership and Order (14:23); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (14:3) | Lystra’s attempted worship of Paul and Barnabas as gods is a key idolatry-collision passage relevant to Hindu deity multiplicity. |
| 15 | The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (15:1-29); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (15:12); Justification apart from the Law (15:1-11, 28-29); Davidic Covenant (15:16); Fulfillment of Prophecy (15:15-18); Grace (15:11); Unity of Jews and Gentiles (15:1-29); Church Leadership and Order (15:22-29); Holiness and Ritual Purity (15:9) | The Jerusalem Council: the single most doctrinally concentrated chapter after Acts 2 and 13 for the Justification apart from the Law doctrine specifically. |
| 16 | Repentance and Baptism (16:15, 33); Lordship of Christ (16:31); Faith (16:31); Salvation (16:30-31); Spiritual Conflict and Occult Power (16:16-18); Divine Guidance through Vision (16:9-10); Election and Effectual Calling (16:14) | Philippian jailer’s “what must I do to be saved?” (16:30-31) is the book’s clearest personal-evangelism exchange and a mandatory-gloss ਮੁਕਤੀ passage. |
| 17 | Resurrection of Christ (17:31-32); Messianic Promise (17:3); Inspiration of Scripture (17:2, 11); Universal Human Accountability (17:30-31); Idolatry and True Worship (17:16-31) | Areopagus address; “unknown god” apologetic bridge requires careful framing per Section A #24. |
| 18 | Messianic Promise (18:5, 28); Inspiration of Scripture (18:24, 28); Grace (18:27); “The Way” (18:25-26); Divine Guidance through Vision (18:9-10) | Apollos and the Corinthian ministry; continuity chapter for Scripture-inspiration and Messiah-proof themes already established, with no newly load-bearing vocabulary per the glossary. |
| 19 | The Holy Spirit and Pentecost (19:2-6); Repentance and Baptism (19:3-5); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (19:11-12); Idolatry and True Worship (19:23-41); Spiritual Conflict and Occult Power (19:13-19); “The Way” (19:9, 23) | Ephesus: John’s-baptism-versus-Christian-baptism contrast; the burning of the magic scrolls; the Artemis riot. |
| 20 | The Church as Community (20:17-35); Grace (20:24, 32); Faith (20:21); Church Leadership and Order (20:17-31); Holiness and Ritual Purity (20:32) | Paul’s farewell address to the Ephesian elders; the doctrinal high point for Church Leadership and Order. |
| 21 | — | [REVIEWED — continuity, no new doctrine citation]. Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem, the vow (ਪ੍ਰਤਿੱਗਿਆ) and temple purification rites, and his arrest reuse Justification apart from the Law (circumcision controversy background) and Holiness and Ritual Purity themes already established in chapters 10, 15, and 20; no new doctrine passage is cited in the registry for this chapter. |
| 22 | Repentance and Baptism (22:16); Conversion of Paul (22:3-21); “The Way” (22:4) | Paul’s defense before the Jerusalem crowd retells his conversion, reinforcing chapter 9’s doctrines rather than introducing new ones. |
| 23 | Resurrection of Christ (23:6-8) | The Sadducee/Pharisee dispute over the resurrection is the chapter’s sole newly-cited doctrine passage; it extends the Critical-tier Resurrection doctrine to the general resurrection of the dead, not only Christ’s own. |
| 24 | Resurrection of Christ (24:15, 21); Universal Human Accountability (24:25); “The Way” (24:14, 22) | Paul before Felix; his defense explicitly names “the Way” and links resurrection hope to coming judgment. |
| 25 | — | [REVIEWED — continuity, no new doctrine citation]. Paul’s hearing before Festus and Agrippa’s arrival reuse Persecution and Bold Witness and the ongoing legal-defense pattern of Acts 22–26 without introducing a new registry-cited doctrine passage. |
| 26 | Conversion of Paul (26:9-18); Resurrection of Christ (26:23); Faith (26:18); Divine Guidance through Vision (26:19); Holiness and Ritual Purity (26:18); Fulfillment of Prophecy (26:22-23) | Paul’s defense before Agrippa is the third and fullest retelling of his conversion vision, consolidating Conversion of Paul and Divine Guidance through Vision. |
| 27 | Providence (27:21-25, 34, 44); Thanksgiving and Mutual Encouragement (27:35) | The shipwreck narrative; note the non-technical “safety” (σωτηρία → ਬਚਾਅ) usage at 27:34 that must NOT be rendered with the technical ਮੁਕਤੀ term. |
| 28 | The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (28:28); Great Commission Fulfilled (28:23, 31); Fulfillment of Prophecy (28:23); Idolatry and True Worship (28:6); Thanksgiving and Mutual Encouragement (28:15) | The book’s climactic close: unhindered (ਬਿਨਾਂ ਰੋਕ) gospel proclamation in Rome fulfills the Acts 1:8 programmatic mandate. |
Coverage Confirmation
- All 28 chapters of Acts have been reviewed.
- 26 of 28 chapters contribute at least one directly-cited doctrine passage from Section A.
- Chapters 21 and 25 are explicitly confirmed as reviewed continuity chapters, contributing no new doctrine-registry citation while reusing doctrines established in adjacent chapters (10, 15, 20 for ch. 21; 22–26 legal-defense pattern for ch. 25).
- Chapters 12, 18, 23 — flagged in the Core Glossary as introducing no new vocabulary — are nonetheless each confirmed here to carry at least one active doctrine citation (Persecution/Providence in 12; Messianic Promise/Inspiration of Scripture/Grace/The Way/Divine Guidance in 18; Resurrection of Christ in 23), and are therefore doctrinally load-bearing even where lexically continuous with prior chapters.
- The doctrine set, risk tiers, and review routing in Section A are identical in name, count, and tier to
assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json(30 doctrines: 7 Critical, 19 High, 3 Medium, 1 Low; 26 theologian-routed, 3 native-speaker-routed, 1 automated-only).
This document extends but never contradicts the baseline Romans Language Package. All Table A terms from analysis/08_core_glossary.md and all doctrines from assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json are reused exactly as recorded.
See assets/translation_memory.json, assets/bible_term_registry.json, and assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json for the enforcement databases governing Phase 2 translation.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Punjabi name: ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਆਤਮਾ ਅਤੇ ਪੰਤੇਕੁਸਤ
Key terms: Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit, tongues of fire, Pentecost, gift of the Holy Spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
The personal indwelling of the Holy Spirit in every believer simultaneously must not be confused with the Sikh doctrine of ਜੋਤ (a single divine light transmitted sequentially through the Ten Gurus into the Guru Granth Sahib), nor read as a trance/possession phenomenon familiar from Punjabi folk religious practice. Pentecost’s outpouring is a decisive, once-for-all inauguration, not a repeatable meditative attainment.
Justification apart from the Law
Punjabi name: ਬਿਵਸਥਾ ਤੋਂ ਬਿਨਾਂ ਧਰਮੀ ਠਹਿਰਾਇਆ ਜਾਣਾ
Key terms: justification, law, circumcision, yoke, grace
Review routing: Human theologian
The Jerusalem Council’s resolution that circumcision (ਸੁੰਨਤ, a term shared with Islamic usage) cannot be required for salvation directly parallels the baseline’s rejection of works-based ਧਰਮ; must never abbreviate ਧਰਮੀ ਠਹਿਰਾਇਆ ਜਾਣਾ to ਮਾਫ਼ੀ alone, preserving the forensic declared-righteous sense.
Resurrection of Christ (and the General Resurrection)
Punjabi name: ਮਸੀਹ ਦਾ ਪੁਨਰ-ਉਥਾਨ
Key terms: resurrection, raised, Hades
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: never ਪੁਨਰ-ਜਨਮ or ਆਵਾਗਵਣ; bodily, once-for-all resurrection ending the cycle of death rather than continuing it. Extends beyond Christ’s own resurrection to the general doctrine of bodily resurrection debated with the Sadducees (23:6-8), which must equally never be assimilated to reincarnation frameworks.
Lordship of Christ
Punjabi name: ਮਸੀਹ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰਭੁਤਵ
Key terms: Lord, Jesus is Lord, right hand of God, calling on the name of the Lord
Review routing: Human theologian
Exclusive, supreme Lordship, never rendered through ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ or framed as one guru-figure’s authority among others. ‘Calling on the name of the Lord’ (Acts 2:21, 38; 4:12; 22:16) requires a mandatory clarifying gloss distinguishing this decisive, one-time confession of faith from Sikh Naam-simran, the central devotional practice of repeated meditation on the Divine Name for gradual liberation.
Deity and Sonship of Christ
Punjabi name: ਮਸੀਹ ਦਾ ਈਸ਼ਵਰਤਵ ਅਤੇ ਪੁੱਤਰਤਵ
Key terms: Son of God, Holy and Righteous One, Author of life, glory
Review routing: Human theologian
Co-equal divine nature and unique Sonship must not be softened toward the Hindu framework (one avatar among many) or the Sikh framework (a highly realized soul or Guru). Christological titles such as ‘Author of life’ (ਜੀਵਨ ਦਾ ਸੋਮਾ ਅਤੇ ਆਗੂ) must not be flattened into a revered founder-figure among founders, paralleling the baseline’s ਗੁਰੂ caution for apostle.
Messianic Promise
Punjabi name: ਮਸੀਹੀ ਵਾਅਦਾ
Key terms: messiah, seed of David, fulfilled prophecy
Review routing: Human theologian
The specific Jewish Old Testament promise fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, not one of several avatars, prophets, or gurus in a lineage of divine messengers.
Salvation
Punjabi name: ਮੁਕਤੀ
Key terms: salvation, saved, calling on the name of the Lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL AND CONSISTENT WITH BASELINE: every doctrinally load-bearing occurrence of ਮੁਕਤੀ requires the mandatory clarifying gloss distinguishing Christian mukti (decisive, once-for-all reconciliation with a personal God through Christ) from Sikh mukti (gradual release from ਆਵਾਗਵਣ through Guru-mediated grace and Naam-simran). Acts 16:30-31’s ‘what must I do to be saved?’ must carry this gloss without exception; Acts 27:34’s non-technical ‘safety’ usage must NOT be conflated with this doctrine.
High Risk Doctrines
The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Punjabi name: ਯਹੂਦੀਆਂ ਅਤੇ ਪਰਾਈਆਂ ਕੌਮਾਂ ਲਈ ਖੁਸ਼ਖਬਰੀ
Key terms: gentiles, gospel, God-fearer, no partiality, clean/unclean
Review routing: Human theologian
The abolition of ritual purity barriers between Jew and Gentile touches Punjab’s own caste-linked purity-impurity discourse; must convey God’s decisive removal of ethnic and ritual barriers to gospel inclusion without softening for caste- or qaum-identity comfort.
Repentance and Baptism
Punjabi name: ਤੋਬਾ ਅਤੇ ਬਪਤਿਸਮਾ
Key terms: repent, baptism, forgiveness of sins, John’s baptism
Review routing: Human theologian
ਤੋਬਾ is a shared Perso-Arabic term across Islamic/Sufi usage and must be anchored to its specific gospel content, not generic religious remorse. ਬਪਤਿਸਮਾ must be framed as a sign/seal of salvation already received through faith, explicitly distinct from the Sikh Amrit Sanchar initiation ceremony despite surface resemblance as a decisive identity-marking rite.
Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Punjabi name: ਰਸੂਲੀ ਅਧਿਕਾਰ ਅਤੇ ਅਚਰਜ ਕੰਮ
Key terms: apostle, signs and wonders, power of God, laying on of hands
Review routing: Human theologian
Signs and wonders must be framed as God’s own authenticating acts accompanying gospel proclamation, never rendered with ਕਰਾਮਾਤ (the Sufi pir/saint-miracle term deeply embedded in Punjabi popular piety), nor conflated with siddhi-attainment through yogic discipline; these are not the apostles’ acquired spiritual powers.
Persecution and Bold Witness
Punjabi name: ਸਤਾਹਟ ਅਤੇ ਦਲੇਰ ਗਵਾਹੀ
Key terms: witness, boldness, persecution, martyr, Sanhedrin
Review routing: Human theologian
ਸ਼ਹੀਦ carries major weight in Punjab through the Sikh tradition of ਸ਼ਹੀਦੀ, associated with righteous armed struggle (ਧਰਮ ਯੁੱਧ) and communal defense. Christian martyrdom in Acts must be framed as suffering witness entrusted to God’s sovereignty without resistance, explicitly distinct from that martial-martyr framework; boldness (ਦਲੇਰੀ) must be Spirit-given courage to proclaim Christ, not human bravado or martial valor.
Conversion of Paul
Punjabi name: ਪੌਲੁਸ ਦਾ ਪਰਿਵਰਤਨ
Key terms: vision, chosen instrument, election, the Way
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul’s Damascus-road vision (ਦਰਸ਼ਨ, retained with mandatory gloss per baseline mukti-precedent) must be distinguished from the Hindu/Sikh devotional darshan framework of beholding-and-being-blessed through ritual sight. His sovereign selection as God’s ‘chosen instrument’ must never be read as impersonal ਕਿਸਮਤ (fate).
Davidic Covenant
Punjabi name: ਦਾਊਦੀ ਨੇਮ
Key terms: David, seed of David, patriarch, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires Old Testament covenant background explanation; no analogous covenantal-promise concept exists in Sikh or Hindu tradition, and the loosely-parallel Guru-lineage succession concept must not be substituted as an explanatory frame.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Punjabi name: ਭਵਿੱਖਬਾਣੀ ਦੀ ਪੂਰਤੀ
Key terms: prophet, prophecy, last days, day of the Lord, restoration of all things
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament reality), not a cyclical cosmic frame drawn from Hindu yuga cosmology or the Sikh/Hindu cycle of ਆਵਾਗਵਣ. ‘Restoration of all things’ (ਸਭ ਕੁਝ ਦੀ ਬਹਾਲੀ) must be a single future consummation, never assimilated to cyclical renewal.
Providence
Punjabi name: ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰਬੰਧ
Key terms: determined plan and foreknowledge, angel, providence, safety (non-technical)
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive foreordaining purpose must never be flattened into ਕਿਸਮਤ (impersonal fate). Note Acts 27:34’s non-technical ‘safety’ (ਬਚਾਅ) usage of σωτηρία must not be rendered with the technical soteriological ਮੁਕਤੀ, to avoid false theological weight on an ordinary statement.
Grace
Punjabi name: ਕਿਰਪਾ
Key terms: grace, gift of the Holy Spirit, gift of God
Review routing: Human theologian
Simon Magus’s attempt to purchase the Spirit’s power (8:18-24) is the sharpest didactic contrast-passage in Acts — grace/gift language must preserve the absolute impossibility of purchasing or earning God’s gift, and must not be read as flowing through Guru-mediation or Naam-simran practice per the baseline’s grace caution.
Faith
Punjabi name: ਨਿਹਚਾ
Key terms: faith, believe
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in the risen Christ specifically, not generalized devotional reverence (ਸ਼ਰਧਾ) or Sufi-idiom steadfastness (ਸਿਦਕ), consistent with baseline usage. Acts 16:30-31 is the clearest evangelistic exchange in the book.
Inspiration of Scripture
Punjabi name: ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਦੀ ਪ੍ਰੇਰਨਾ
Key terms: Scripture, examining the Scriptures
Review routing: Human theologian
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture, written by human authors under divine guidance and requiring faithful interpretation (as Philip and the Bereans model), from the Sikh doctrine of the Guru Granth Sahib as the eternal, living Guru whose authority functions very differently.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Punjabi name: ਯਹੂਦੀਆਂ ਅਤੇ ਪਰਾਈਆਂ ਕੌਮਾਂ ਦੀ ਏਕਤਾ
Key terms: no partiality, clean/unclean, circumcision, God-fearer
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s impartiality directly challenges caste and communal-identity hierarchy still present in Punjabi society despite Sikhism’s own formal rejection of caste; must be translated with full theological clarity, without softening for social comfort.
Universal Human Accountability
Punjabi name: ਸਰਬ-ਵਿਆਪਕ ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਜਵਾਬਦੇਹੀ
Key terms: partiality, judgment to come, idols
Review routing: Human theologian
All humanity is equally accountable before God, regardless of religious-community membership; future personal divine judgment (ਨਿਆਂ) must not be read as impersonal karma-based consequence.
Spiritual Conflict and Occult Power
Punjabi name: ਆਤਮਿਕ ਯੁੱਧ ਅਤੇ ਜਾਦੂਗਰੀ ਵਿਰੁੱਧ ਸੰਘਰਸ਼
Key terms: sorcery, spirit of divination, magic scrolls
Review routing: Human theologian
Given the prevalence of astrology (ਜੋਤਸ਼), amulets, and folk fortune-telling in Punjabi popular religion, occult powers encountered in Acts must be unambiguously identified as evil and categorically opposed to the Holy Spirit’s genuine power, never presented as a lesser or alternative ‘spiritual gift.‘
Idolatry and True Worship
Punjabi name: ਮੂਰਤੀ-ਪੂਜਾ ਅਤੇ ਸੱਚੀ ਬੰਦਗੀ
Key terms: idols, unknown god, gods Zeus and Hermes
Review routing: Human theologian
Direct collision with widespread Hindu image-worship (murti puja) practiced by Punjab’s Hindu minority; Paul’s Areopagus use of the ‘unknown god’ altar (17:23) must be framed as a rhetorical apologetic bridge into proclaiming ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ specifically, never as an endorsement that any unknown deity concept is equally valid. Note a genuine but partial point of overlap with Sikhism’s own rejection of image worship, which must not be overextended.
”The Way” as the Exclusive Path of Salvation
Punjabi name: ਰਾਹ — ਮੁਕਤੀ ਦਾ ਇਕੱਲਾ ਰਾਹ
Key terms: the Way
Review routing: Human theologian
South Asian religious culture is thoroughly comfortable with a ‘many paths’ (bahu-marg) framework in which multiple spiritual paths are held as equally valid routes to the same end; ‘the Way’ in Acts is emphatically not one path among many but the singular way of salvation through the risen, exclusive Lord Jesus. Requires an explicit theological bridge wherever it occurs, not vocabulary substitution alone.
Divine Guidance through Vision
Punjabi name: ਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦੀ ਅਗਵਾਈ
Key terms: vision, laying on of hands
Review routing: Human theologian
RETAINED-WITH-MANDATORY-GLOSS per baseline ਮੁਕਤੀ precedent: ਦਰਸ਼ਨ is a heavily loaded Hindu/Sikh devotional term for the beholding of, and being beheld by, a deity, image, guru, or the Guru Granth Sahib, understood as conferring blessing through sight itself. Every doctrinally load-bearing occurrence requires a clarifying gloss: this is a one-time, sovereign divine disclosure of information/direction for gospel mission, not a devotional beholding-and-being-blessed encounter repeatable through ritual practice.
Election and Effectual Calling
Punjabi name: ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦੀ ਚੋਣ ਅਤੇ ਸੱਦਾ
Key terms: called, calling, chosen instrument, election
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign, personal choice and summons must never be rendered with ਕਿਸਮਤ (impersonal fate); consistent with baseline’s election caution.
Holiness and Ritual Purity
Punjabi name: ਪਵਿੱਤਰਤਾ ਅਤੇ ਰੀਤੀ ਸ਼ੁੱਧਤਾ
Key terms: clean/unclean, holy, sanctification
Review routing: Human theologian
The reversal of Mosaic ritual-purity categories touches Punjab’s own strong purity-impurity discourse tied historically to caste and untouchability; must convey God’s decisive abolition of any ritual barrier to gospel inclusion, while noting the positive parallel with Sikh langar’s commensality ideal without collapsing the two into theological equivalence.
Medium Risk Doctrines
The Church as Community
Punjabi name: ਸੰਗਤ ਵਜੋਂ ਮੰਡਲੀ
Key terms: fellowship, breaking of bread, all things in common, church, elder, overseer, shepherd
Review routing: Native speaker review
ਸੰਗਤ and ਸਾਂਝਾ (sharing) offer a genuine positive cultural bridge to Sikh langar and sangat practice, but voluntary grace-motivated generosity must not be read as obligatory redistribution, nor church office terms as a hierarchical caste-like class distinction.
The Great Commission Fulfilled
Punjabi name: ਮਹਾਨ ਹੁਕਮਨਾਮੇ ਦੀ ਪੂਰਤੀ
Key terms: ends of the earth, kingdom of God, light to the nations, unhindered, mission
Review routing: Native speaker review
Total geographic and ethnic universality of the gospel’s advance must be preserved; avoid ਜੋਤ-adjacent vocabulary for ‘light to the nations’ given the Sikh doctrine of sequential divine-light transmission through the Ten Gurus.
Church Leadership and Order
Punjabi name: ਮੰਡਲੀ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰਬੰਧ ਅਤੇ ਆਗੂ
Key terms: overseer, elder, shepherd, apostolic decree
Review routing: Native speaker review
Administrative/pastoral office terms carry low doctrinal collision but should not suggest a hierarchical caste-like class distinct from other believers; the apostolic decree (ਰਸੂਲਾਂ ਦਾ ਫ਼ੈਸਲਾ) must deliberately avoid ਹੁਕਮ, reserved per baseline for the Sikh doctrine of Waheguru’s Divine Order.
Low Risk Doctrines
Thanksgiving and Mutual Encouragement
Punjabi name: ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਅਤੇ ਆਪਸੀ ਹੌਸਲਾ
Key terms: thanksgiving, boldness, encourage
Review routing: Automated review
Standard low-risk vocabulary; minor risk of over-ritualization.
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