Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis: 1 Corinthians — English → Sanskrit
Purpose and Method
This document provides the full doctrine matrix for 1 Corinthians required by PRD Phase 1 Step 4, and is CONSISTENT with doctrine_risk_registry.json: the same 23 doctrines, at the same risk tiers, with the same sanskrit_doctrine_name values and review routing. No doctrine name or tier is altered here. This document adds two things the registry itself does not provide in full: (1) a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of the entire book, so that every chapter’s contribution (or non-contribution) of doctrinal load is explicitly recorded, per the FULL-BOOK COVERAGE mandate; and (2) a translation risk column spelling out the specific mechanism of possible mistranslation for Phase 2 reviewers, distinct from the registry’s more compact sanskrit_risk_notes.
Scope note on cross-references. Several major doctrines central to 1 Corinthians (Gospel, Grace, Faith, Salvation, Lordship of Christ, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Fatherhood of God, Holy Spirit, Church as God’s People, Kingdom of God, Covenant) were already fully analyzed in the Romans baseline doctrine_risk_registry.json and are not re-numbered or re-tiered here. Per this curriculum’s own registry note, they are cross-referenced at each chapter where they recur, using their Romans-baseline risk tier and Sanskrit rendering unchanged, so that no chapter’s doctrinal content is silently omitted from full-book coverage even where the doctrine itself was first analyzed in Romans.
The core passage, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, is the theological anchor of this curriculum (Resurrection of Christ) but is not the scope boundary; all sixteen chapters are covered below.
Part 1 — Consolidated Doctrine Matrix (1 Corinthians-Specific Doctrines)
This table reproduces, without alteration, the 23 doctrines and risk tiers established in doctrine_risk_registry.json, adding the Translation Risk column for Phase 2 use.
| # | Doctrine | Supporting Passages (1 Cor) | Risk | Translation Risk (mechanism) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | 1:10-17; 3:1-9; 11:18-19 | High | Rendering “division/faction around a teacher” with vocabulary resembling guru-sampradāya lineage-loyalty (a normal, expected structure in classical religious life) would make Paul’s condemnation illegible — the text condemns exactly the loyalty-pattern a Sanskrit-literate reader might expect to be praised. | Human theologian |
| 2 | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | 1:18-2:5; 2:6-13 | High | प्रज्ञा (“wisdom”) and सामर्थ्यम् (“power”) must retain their antithetical pairing with “foolishness” and “weakness”; collapsing प्रज्ञा into a jñāna-mārga-style attainment-through-contemplation reading, or losing the weakness/power paradox, destroys Paul’s argument structure. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Natural and Spiritual Persons | 2:14-3:4 | Critical | प्राकृतः risks importing Sāṅkhya prakṛti/puruṣa dualism; आत्मिकः risks importing Advaita’s ātman-Brahman identity claim onto the “spiritual person,” implying the believer’s own true Self rather than one indwelt by the distinct, given Holy Spirit. | Human theologian |
| 4 | Apostolic Tradition and Reception of the Gospel | 11:23; 15:1-3 | High | The receive/deliver (परम्परा-shaped) technical pairing must not use सम्प्रदायः, which names an open, ongoing, reinterpretable teacher-lineage; Paul’s “received” tradition is a fixed, closed, checkable eyewitness deposit. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Church Discipline and Holiness | 5:1-13 | High | Remedial, restoration-aimed church discipline must not be rendered with vocabulary evoking dharmaśāstra’s jāti-cyuti (permanent, punitive, status-defining caste-expulsion); the leaven/unleavened imagery requires explicit Exodus 12 background, having no native equivalent. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Bodily Holiness and Redemption (Bought With a Price) | 6:12-20 (foundational temple-image anticipated at 3:16-17) | High | मन्दिरम् (temple) for the body must carry an explicit non-image-housing note (no mūrti/consecration required to activate divine presence); “bought with a price” must not read as a transactional offering-and-return exchange akin to prasāda. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Marriage and Singleness | 7:1-40 | High | अविवाहित्वम् must never be rendered ब्रह्मचर्यम्, the formal first varṇāśrama life-stage preceding marriage; Paul commends a permanent, freely chosen alternative state, not a stage in a fixed life-sequence. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | 8:1-13; 10:14-33 | Critical | The central case (food ritually presented to an image, then eaten) is functionally identical to naivedya/prasāda practice; Paul’s permissive conclusion (10:25) rests on the idol’s unreality (8:4) and must never be generalized into an endorsement of prasāda-consumption as neutral in a live devotional context. मूर्तिः/विग्रहः must never render “idol.” | Human theologian |
| 9 | Monotheistic Confession (One God, One Lord) | 8:4-6 | Critical | ”Many so-called gods and lords” near-verbatim describes the devotional landscape of many devas/iṣṭa-devatās; सर्वेश्वरः/प्रभुः must be used with zero deviation toward देवः/भगवान्/bare ईश्वरः, per the Romans baseline. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Apostolic Rights and Self-Discipline | 9:1-27 | Medium | Athletic self-discipline imagery has mild resonance with ascetic tapas; must be distinguished from merit-accumulation or siddhi-attainment goals — Paul’s discipline serves gospel proclamation, not personal spiritual advancement. | Native speaker review |
| 11 | Warning From Israel’s History (Typology) | 10:1-13 | High | Requires explicit Exodus wilderness-narrative background; this is linear historical typology, not the cyclical yuga-recurrence framework of Purāṇic cosmology. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Christian Baptism | 1:13-17; 10:2; 12:13; 15:29 | High | Never दीक्षा (guru-mediated ritual initiation with mantra-transmission into a lineage); baptism is Spirit-worked incorporation into Christ’s one body. Use the established transliteration बप्तिस्मः. | Human theologian |
| 13 | Communion With Demons versus the Lord’s Table | 10:14-22 | High | पिशाचः is least-encumbered of the available terms but still requires explicit framing at every occurrence: pagan sacrifice is, unknown to worshippers, offered to malevolent spiritual beings — a claim with no clean pre-existing Sanskrit vessel. | Human theologian |
| 14 | The Lord’s Supper | 11:17-34 | Critical | स्मरणम् (“remembrance”) must never be rendered with श्राद्धम् or cognates (ancestral memorial rites benefiting a deceased person’s postmortem welfare) — a categorically different structure from proclaiming a completed, once-for-all atonement. Keep distinct from ch.10’s polemical “table of the Lord.” | Human theologian |
| 15 | Order in Worship: Headship and Gender Roles | 11:2-16; 14:33-35 | High | κεφαλή/शिरस्त्वम् must remain a relational-authority image, not an ontological worth-ranking or a varṇa-style hierarchical category; also flagged for honor/shame and government/authority sensitivity per AI-instructions categories. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | 12:1-31 | Critical | The many-members-one-body metaphor closely echoes the Puruṣasūkta (Ṛgveda 10.90.11-12), the mythic charter for varṇa hierarchy arising from a cosmic Puruṣa’s body-parts; Paul’s argument dissolves rather than grounds status-hierarchy and needs an explicit contrast note at every occurrence. Tongues/discernment sub-terms carry additional Vāc-theology and plural-”spirits”-vs-singular-Spirit risk. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Love as the Greater Way | 12:31; 13:1-13 | Critical | प्रेम is the central technical term of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava prema-bhakti/rasa theology (culminating in mādhurya-rasa); risk of a devotionally-trained reader assimilating Paul’s willed, action-centered description (13:4-7) into an aesthetic-emotional rasa framework rather than reading it as conduct. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Order in Worship: Tongues and Prophecy | 14:1-40 | High | Paul’s comparative ranking (prophecy edifies the gathered church; uninterpreted tongues do not) must be preserved structurally; tongues-vocabulary carries the same Vāc-theology/śabda-brahman/mantra-efficacy risk flagged under Spiritual Gifts. | Human theologian |
| 19 | The Resurrection of Christ | 15:1-11 (core passage) | Critical | पुनरुत्थानम् only, never पुनर्जन्म. Witness-appearances (ὤφθη, vv.5-8) must use the plain verb दृष्टः, never दर्शनम् (the devotional category of ritually beholding a deity/guru), which would recast historical, evidentiary sightings as theophanic ritual experience. “Has been raised” (v.4) requires a resultative construction (पुनरुत्थितः अस्ति) conveying a permanent completed state, not a stage preceding a further cycle. “For our sins” (v.3) has no clean parallel in karma-mīmāṃsā’s non-transferable karmaphala and needs explicit explanation. | Human theologian |
| 20 | The Resurrection of Believers and the Resurrection Body | 15:12-58 | Critical | प्राकृतं शरीरम्/आत्मिकं शरीरम् must be kept absolutely distinct from liṅga-śarīra/sūkṣma-śarīra (the subtle body vehicle of vāsanā across transmigration). The seed-sown analogy (15:36-44) risks collision via बीज (technical karma-bīja); Paul describes one body’s single transformation, never a repeatedly reincarnating vehicle. “Imperishable” (vv.42,50,53-54) must never use अक्षरम् (Gītā 8.3/8.21’s and the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad’s term for the imperishable Absolute/the syllable Oṃ). | Human theologian |
| 21 | The Son’s Subjection to the Father | 15:24-28 | Critical | Must not suggest ontological inferiority or be assimilated to the Advaitic pattern of Īśvara as a māyā-conditioned manifestation ultimately subordinate to and superseded by impersonal nirguṇa Brahman. “God may be all in all” must not read as a monistic-absorption formula (cf. the mahāvākyas) but as the triune God’s completed personal reign. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Christian Giving (the Collection) | 16:1-4 | Low | Administrative instruction; standard vocabulary; no significant doctrinal collision. | Automated review |
| 23 | Closing Greetings and Liturgical Acclamation | 16:19-24 | Medium | Maranatha (मारान् अथा) should be preserved as transliteration per the अब्बा precedent, not reduced to a plain Sanskrit equivalent, to retain early liturgical acclamatory force; holy-kiss custom needs only a cultural-practice note. | Native speaker review |
Risk summary (per doctrine_risk_registry.json, reproduced for consistency): Critical: 9 · High: 11 · Medium: 2 · Low: 2 · Total doctrines: 24 · Requiring human theologian review: 20 · Requiring native speaker review: 2 · Automated only: 2.
Part 2 — Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Coverage (Full Book, 1–16)
Each chapter is mapped to (a) 1-Corinthians-specific doctrines from Part 1, and (b) Romans-baseline doctrines/terms recurring in that chapter, carried forward unchanged at their established tier. Chapters or sub-sections with no new doctrinal load are explicitly marked “reviewed — no new doctrinal content.”
Chapter 1 (1:1-9 opening; 1:10-17 unity; 1:18-31 cross)
| Doctrine | Source | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel; Grace; Faith; Divine Calling; Saints; Sanctification; Fellowship; Thanksgiving | Romans baseline (cross-ref) | 1:1-9 | High/Low per baseline tier | Per baseline |
| Christian Unity versus Factionalism | 1 Cor-specific | 1:10-17 | High | Human theologian |
| The Cross as Wisdom and Power | 1 Cor-specific | 1:18-31 | High | Human theologian |
Note: 1:1-9 is doctrinally dense with reused Romans terms (calling, grace, gifts, fellowship) but introduces no new doctrine beyond the baseline; reviewed and confirmed consistent.
Chapter 2 (wisdom/power continued; natural vs. spiritual persons begins)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cross as Wisdom and Power (continued) | 2:1-5 | High | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit (Romans baseline cross-ref — dense concentration begins here) | 2:10-14 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Natural and Spiritual Persons | 2:6-16 | Critical | Human theologian |
Chapter 3 (factionalism continued; foundation/temple; carnality)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Unity versus Factionalism (continued — “of Paul… of Apollos”) | 3:1-9 | High | Human theologian |
| Natural and Spiritual Persons (carnal/fleshly extension) | 3:1-4 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Bodily Holiness and Redemption (temple imagery first occurrence, corporate) | 3:16-17 | High | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit (indwelling) | 3:16 | Critical | Human theologian |
Note: 3:16-17’s temple language anticipates the individual-body application in 6:19 and is treated as the same doctrine (Bodily Holiness and Redemption) at its corporate first occurrence.
Chapter 4 (apostolic stewardship; fatherhood; judgment)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apostleship (Romans baseline cross-ref) | 4:1-13 | Medium | Native speaker review |
| Fatherhood of God vs. Paul’s derivative spiritual fatherhood (Romans baseline “father” cross-ref, contextually disambiguated) | 4:15 | Critical/High | Human theologian |
| Christian Unity versus Factionalism (arrogance/comparison of teachers, continued) | 4:6-7,18-21 | High | Human theologian |
Chapter 5 (discipline)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church Discipline and Holiness | 5:1-13 | High | Human theologian |
| Sin (Romans baseline cross-ref) | 5:1,5,13 | High | Human theologian |
Chapter 6 (lawsuits; bodily holiness)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church Discipline and Holiness (extension — believers judging disputes rather than pagan courts; eschatological “saints will judge the world,” 6:2-3) | 6:1-8 | High | Human theologian |
| Justification (Romans baseline cross-ref, “you were washed… justified”) | 6:11 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Bodily Holiness and Redemption (Bought With a Price) | 6:12-20 | High | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit (temple of the Holy Spirit) | 6:19 | Critical | Human theologian |
Note: 6:1-8’s lawsuit instruction carries no distinct classical-philosophical collision beyond the general holiness/discipline theme already tiered High; folded into Church Discipline and Holiness rather than treated as a 24th doctrine, consistent with the registry.
Chapter 7 (marriage, singleness, calling in one’s station)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marriage and Singleness | 7:1-40 | High | Human theologian |
| Divine Calling (Romans baseline cross-ref, extended to social/life-station, 7:17-24 — flagged for contextual disambiguation from calling-to-salvation) | 7:17-24 | High | Human theologian |
| Spiritual Gifts (Romans baseline cross-ref, applied loosely to marital/celibate state) | 7:7 | Medium | Native speaker review |
Chapter 8 (idol meat, monotheism)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | 8:1-13 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Monotheistic Confession (One God, One Lord) | 8:4-6 | Critical | Human theologian |
Chapter 9 (apostolic rights)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apostolic Rights and Self-Discipline | 9:1-27 | Medium | Native speaker review |
| Gospel; Apostleship (Romans baseline cross-ref) | 9:1-2,12-18,23 | High/Medium | Per baseline |
Chapter 10 (Israel’s history; idol meat continued; demons)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warning From Israel’s History (Typology) | 10:1-13 | High | Human theologian |
| Christian Baptism (typological reference, “baptized into Moses”) | 10:2 | High | Human theologian |
| Communion With Demons versus the Lord’s Table | 10:14-22 | High | Human theologian |
| Christian Liberty and Idol Meat (continued — market meat, conscience) | 10:23-33 | Critical | Human theologian |
Chapter 11 (headship/covering; Lord’s Supper)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Order in Worship: Headship and Gender Roles | 11:2-16 | High | Human theologian |
| The Lord’s Supper | 11:17-34 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Covenant (Romans baseline cross-ref — “new covenant,” 11:25) | 11:25 | High | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Tradition and Reception of the Gospel (receive/deliver pairing first occurrence) | 11:23 | High | Human theologian |
Chapter 12 (spiritual gifts; body of Christ)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | 12:1-31 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Lordship of Christ (Romans baseline cross-ref — confession “Jesus is Lord,” 12:3, must match Romans 10:9 phrasing conventions) | 12:3 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Christian Baptism | 12:13 | High | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit (gifts distributed by one Spirit) | 12:4-11 | Critical | Human theologian |
Chapter 13 (love)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love as the Greater Way | 12:31; 13:1-13 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Faith (Romans baseline cross-ref — one of three abiding virtues, 13:13) | 13:2,13 | High | Human theologian |
Chapter 14 (tongues, prophecy, order)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Order in Worship: Tongues and Prophecy | 14:1-40 | High | Human theologian |
| Order in Worship: Headship and Gender Roles (women in worship, 14:33-35, same doctrine as ch.11) | 14:33-35 | High | Human theologian |
| Church as God’s People (Romans baseline cross-ref — assembly/edification vocabulary) | 14:4-5,12,19,23,28,34-35 | Medium | Native speaker review |
Chapter 15 (resurrection — core passage and its full argument)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Resurrection of Christ (CORE PASSAGE) | 15:1-11 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Apostolic Tradition and Reception of the Gospel (“received… of first importance,” 15:1-3) | 15:1-3 | High | Human theologian |
| The Resurrection of Believers and the Resurrection Body | 15:12-58 | Critical | Human theologian |
| The Son’s Subjection to the Father | 15:24-28 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God (Romans baseline cross-ref — tied explicitly to resurrection/consummation) | 15:24,50 | Medium | Native speaker review |
| Salvation (Romans baseline cross-ref, present-passive verbal form, 15:2) | 15:2 | Critical | Human theologian |
| Sin (Romans baseline cross-ref — “Christ died for our sins,” 15:3) | 15:3 | High | Human theologian |
Chapter 16 (collection; travel plans; closing)
| Doctrine | Passages | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Giving (the Collection) | 16:1-4 | Low | Automated review |
| Closing Greetings and Liturgical Acclamation | 16:19-24 | Medium | Native speaker review |
| Fellowship; Exhort (Romans baseline cross-ref — travel plans, greetings, 16:5-18) | 16:5-18 | Low | Automated review |
Note: 16:5-18 (Paul’s travel plans and personal greetings) is reviewed and confirmed to contribute no new doctrinal content beyond standard low-risk fellowship/exhortation vocabulary already established in the Romans baseline.
Part 3 — Core Passage Deep Dive: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
As the theological anchor of this curriculum, 15:1-11 concentrates four distinct risk-bearing doctrines in eleven verses:
| Verse(s) | Doctrine | Risk | Specific Translation Hazard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:1-2 | Gospel; Salvation (Romans baseline) | High/Critical | ”Gospel… by which you are being saved” — present-passive त्रायध्वे-type construction must not collapse into a one-time-only past event nor a self-effort-based ongoing process. |
| 15:1-3 | Apostolic Tradition and Reception of the Gospel | High | ”Received… delivered… of first importance” must not use सम्प्रदायः; render as a fixed, closed, checkable deposit received once, not an open reinterpretable lineage. |
| 15:3 | Sin (Romans baseline); substitutionary atonement | High | ”Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” — has no clean parallel in karma-mīmāṃsā’s strictly non-transferable karmaphala; requires explicit theological explanation, not assumed comprehension. |
| 15:3-4 | The Resurrection of Christ | Critical | ”Was buried… was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures” — पुनरुत्थितः अस्ति (resultative), never पुनर्जन्म; “according to the Scriptures” ties to Fulfillment of Prophecy (Romans baseline, High) — linear fulfillment, not yuga-cyclical avatāra-return. |
| 15:5-8 | The Resurrection of Christ (eyewitness appearances) | Critical | ”Appeared to Cephas… to the Twelve… to more than five hundred… to James… to all the apostles… to me” — दृष्टः only, never दर्शनम् (which would recast historical, verifiable, named-witness sightings as ritual theophanic experience akin to temple/guru darśana). |
| 15:9-10 | Apostleship (Romans baseline); Grace | Medium/High | ”Least of the apostles… by the grace of God I am what I am” — grace/effort relationship (κοπιάω, “worked harder”) must preserve grace as the ground of the effort, not effort as what earns or activates grace (guard against a karmaphala or prasāda-exchange reading). |
| 15:11 | Apostolic Tradition and Reception of the Gospel; Universal proclamation | High | ”Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed” — unity of apostolic testimony; must not be read as competing sampradāya-style teacher-lineages (echo of ch.1’s factionalism doctrine). |
Every segment drawn from this passage in Phase 2 must be routed to human theologian review without exception, per the escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md (Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection, Lordship of Christ, Salvation, Messianic Promise references are automatically flagged).
Part 4 — Full-Book Coverage Confirmation
All sixteen chapters of 1 Corinthians have been reviewed above. The following sections are explicitly confirmed as contributing no new doctrine or term beyond material already tracked in this document, the Romans baseline, or 08_core_glossary.md, and require only standard automated/native-speaker review at the tier already established for their constituent reused terms:
- 1:1-9 (opening greeting/thanksgiving) — reused Romans terms only.
- 4:1-13 (apostolic stewardship, excluding 4:15’s fatherhood disambiguation) — reused apostleship vocabulary.
- 6:1-8 (lawsuits among believers) — folded into Church Discipline and Holiness, no distinct classical-philosophical collision identified.
- 9:1-2,12-18,23 — reused Gospel/apostleship vocabulary.
- 14:4-5,12,19,23,28,34-35 (assembly/edification terms outside the headship and tongues-specific doctrines) — reused Church as God’s People vocabulary.
- 16:5-18 (travel plans and personal greetings) — reused fellowship/exhortation vocabulary, Low risk.
No chapter has been silently omitted.
Part 5 — Risk Summary (Reproduced from doctrine_risk_registry.json for Consistency)
| Risk Tier | Count (per registry) | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 9 | Human theologian (mandatory, every occurrence) |
| High | 11 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 2 | Native speaker / Sanskrit-philosophically-literate scholar review |
| Low | 2 | Automated review |
| Total | 24 (per registry risk_summary; 23 doctrine entries enumerated in Part 1, reproduced without alteration from the source registry) | — |
Total requiring human theologian review: 20 Total requiring native speaker review: 2 Total automated only: 2
This document must be read alongside doctrine_risk_registry.json (authoritative tiers), translation_memory.json (authoritative renderings, pending the version increment noted in 08_core_glossary.md), and 12_ai_translation_requirements.md (enforcement and escalation rules) before any Phase 2 segment translation of 1 Corinthians begins.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Natural and Spiritual Persons
Sanskrit name: प्राकृतपुरुषः आत्मिकपुरुषश्च
Key terms: natural person, spiritual person, flesh, discern spiritually
Review routing: Human theologian
The ψυχικός/πνευματικός contrast risks a double collision: प्राकृतः evokes Sāṅkhya’s prakṛti/puruṣa dualism, and आत्मिकः evokes the Advaitic ātman-Brahman identity claim of the mahāvākyas. This is the same collision-class as the baseline’s Holy Spirit entry and must never be read as endorsing either Sāṅkhya dualist metaphysics or Advaitic non-dual Self-realization; the ‘spiritual person’ is one indwelt and taught by the distinct, given Holy Spirit.
Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Sanskrit name: ख्रीष्टीयस्वातन्त्र्यं देवप्रतिमानिवेदितमांसं च
Key terms: idol, food offered to idols, conscience, the weak, one God, one Lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: this doctrine’s central case — food ritually presented to an image and then eaten — is functionally identical to Hindu naivedya/prasāda practice. Paul’s permissive conclusion (10:25) must never be read as a blanket endorsement of prasāda-consumption as spiritually neutral in a live Hindu devotional context, since his argument rests specifically on the pagan idol’s unreality (8:4), a premise that cannot be assumed to transfer without explicit theological mediation. मूर्तिः/विग्रहः must never be used for ‘idol’ since both imply a real, Āgamically-consecrated divine presence, directly contradicting Paul’s claim that the idol ‘is nothing.‘
Monotheistic Confession (One God, One Lord)
Sanskrit name: एकः सर्वेश्वरः एकः प्रभुश्च
Key terms: one God, one Lord, many gods and many lords
Review routing: Human theologian
This verse’s ‘many so-called gods and many lords’ is a near-verbatim description of the Hindu devotional landscape of many devas and iṣṭa-devatās, making 8:5-6 the paradigm proof-text for why सर्वेश्वरः (never देवः/भगवान्/bare ईश्वरः) and प्रभुः (never ईश्वरः) must be used consistently, per the Romans baseline’s God and Lord entries.
The Lord’s Supper
Sanskrit name: प्रभुभोजनम्
Key terms: Lord’s Supper, body and blood, remembrance, new covenant, discerning the body
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: the ‘remembrance’ (स्मरणम्) of Christ’s death must never be rendered with श्राद्धम् or its cognates, the Hindu ancestral memorial-rite category involving piṇḍa-offerings for a deceased ancestor’s postmortem welfare — a categorically different structure (benefiting the living community’s proclamation of a completed atonement, not affecting the deceased’s afterlife state). प्रभुभोजनम् must also be kept distinct from chapter 10’s polemical ‘table of the Lord’ typological usage.
Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Sanskrit name: आत्मिकानि वरदानानि ख्रीष्टस्य शरीरं च
Key terms: spiritual gifts, body of Christ, members, one Spirit… many gifts, discerning of spirits, tongues
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: the body-with-many-members metaphor closely echoes the Puruṣasūkta (Ṛgveda 10.90.11-12), in which the four varṇas emerge from different parts of a cosmic Puruṣa’s body, a foundational mythic charter for hierarchical social ranking by bodily origin. Paul’s argument moves in the opposite direction, insisting on the equal indispensability and honor of every member (12:22-24) to dissolve rather than ground a status hierarchy; every occurrence requires an explicit contrast note. The chapter’s tongues/interpretation/discerning-of-spirits gifts additionally carry the Vāc-theology, śabda-brahman, and plural-‘spirits’-versus-singular-Holy-Spirit risks documented in the term registry.
Love as the Greater Way
Sanskrit name: प्रेम श्रेष्ठतमः मार्गः
Key terms: love, the greater way, faith, hope, and love, love never fails
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: प्रेम is the central technical term of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava bhakti theology’s prema-bhakti and its elaborate rasa (aesthetic-devotional flavor) system culminating in mādhurya-rasa (Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa erotic love as the paradigm of divine-human love). A devotionally-trained reader risks hearing 13:4-7’s deliberately unemotional, will-and-action-centered description (‘patient… kind… does not envy… bears all things’) through this aesthetic-emotional lattice rather than as willed, self-giving conduct. Mandatory explicit note at first occurrence distinguishing agapē from prema-bhakti’s rasa framework.
The Resurrection of Christ
Sanskrit name: ख्रीष्टस्य पुनरुत्थानम्
Key terms: Christ died, was buried, was raised on the third day, appeared to Cephas, according to the Scriptures
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, the theological anchor of the entire curriculum: पुनरुत्थानम्, never पुनर्जन्म. The verified, named-witness appearances (ὤφθη, vv.5-8) must be rendered with the plain verb दृष्टः, never the noun दर्शनम् (the central Hindu devotional category of ritually beholding a deity or guru’s presence, e.g. temple/mūrti darśana), which would recast historical, evidentiary sightings as ritual theophanic experiences. The perfect tense of ‘has been raised’ (v.4) must be preserved by a resultative Sanskrit construction (पुनरुत्थितः अस्ति) to convey a permanent, completed state, not a stage preceding a further cycle. Christ’s substitutionary death ‘for our sins’ (v.3) has no clean parallel in karma-mīmāṃsā’s strictly non-transferable karmaphala and requires explicit theological explanation, not assumed comprehension.
The Resurrection of Believers and the Resurrection Body
Sanskrit name: विश्वासिनां पुनरुत्थानं शरीरं च
Key terms: natural body, spiritual body, sown perishable, raised imperishable, firstfruits, last trumpet
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, the single most extensive resurrection-specific caution in this Language Package: the प्राकृतं शरीरम्/आत्मिकं शरीरम् pairing must be kept absolutely distinct from the Sāṅkhya-Yoga/Vedāntic doctrine of the liṅga-śarīra/sūkṣma-śarīra (subtle body), the vehicle of karmic impressions (vāsanā) that migrates from body to body across transmigration — already flagged Critical under ‘resurrection’ in the Romans baseline. The seed-sown analogy (15:36-44) risks the same collision via बीज, the technical term for the karma-seed (karma-bīja) germinating future births; Paul describes a single transformation of one body into an imperishable form at one definitive future moment, never a repeatedly-reincarnating subtle vehicle. ‘Imperishable’ (v.42,50,53-54) must never use अक्षरम् (Bhagavad Gītā 8.3/8.21’s and the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad’s technical term for the imperishable Absolute or the syllable Oṃ).
The Son’s Subjection to the Father
Sanskrit name: पुत्रस्य पितरि वशीभावः
Key terms: the Son himself will be subjected, God may be all in all, delivers the kingdom
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: the Son’s voluntary functional subjection at the consummation must not be rendered in a way suggesting ontological inferiority, nor assimilated to the Advaitic pattern in which Īśvara is a māyā-conditioned manifestation ultimately subordinate to and superseded by the impersonal nirguṇa Brahman — precisely the subordination risk the Romans baseline’s प्रभुः/सर्वेश्वरः choices were designed to foreclose. ‘God may be all in all’ must not be read as a monistic absorption formula (cf. the mahāvākyas) but as the completed, personal reign of the triune God.
High Risk Doctrines
Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Sanskrit name: मण्डल्याः ऐक्यं गणविभेदश्च
Key terms: division, strife, factions, Paul… Apollos… Cephas
Review routing: Human theologian
Party loyalty to human teachers (Paul, Apollos, Cephas) as rivals must not be rendered through vocabulary resembling guru-sampradāya lineage rivalry, in which allegiance to a specific lineage-founder is normal and expected; Paul explicitly condemns exactly this kind of teacher-loyalty division as incompatible with the church’s unity in Christ.
The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Sanskrit name: क्रूशः प्रज्ञा सामर्थ्यं च
Key terms: wisdom, power of God, foolishness, cross, boasting
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s wisdom (प्रज्ञा) revealed in a crucified man directly inverts the intellectual-attainment structure of jñāna-mārga (in which प्रज्ञा/विद्या is reached through disciplined contemplation) and God’s power (सामर्थ्यम्, never शक्तिः) is displayed specifically in weakness — both terms require mandatory redefinition at first occurrence per the baseline and glossary notes, and must be preserved co-occurring in their antithetical structure.
Apostolic Tradition and Reception of the Gospel
Sanskrit name: प्रेषितानां शिक्षापरम्परा
Key terms: received, delivered, handed down, as of first importance
Review routing: Human theologian
The receive/deliver (paralambanō/paradidōmi) technical pairing structurally resembles guru-śiṣya-paramparā lineage-transmission, in which authoritative teaching is passed down through an open chain of reinterpreting teachers. Paul’s ‘received’ tradition is instead a fixed, closed, historically-anchored eyewitness deposit (named, checkable witnesses, some still living, 15:5-8), not an open sampradāya of ongoing reinterpretation; never render with सम्प्रदायः/सम्प्रदायेन.
Church Discipline and Holiness
Sanskrit name: मण्डलीशासनं पावित्र्यं च
Key terms: hand over to Satan, leaven, purge the evil person, sexual immorality
Review routing: Human theologian
Formal church discipline aimed at an offender’s ultimate restoration must not be assimilated to dharmaśāstra’s jāti-cyuti (permanent caste-expulsion), which is punitive and social-status-defining rather than remedial; the Passover leaven-imagery additionally requires explicit Exodus 12 background, having no native Sanskrit ritual-calendar equivalent.
Bodily Holiness and Redemption (Bought With a Price)
Sanskrit name: मूल्येन क्रयणं शारीरिकं पावित्र्यं च
Key terms: temple of the Holy Spirit, bought with a price, glorify God in your body
Review routing: Human theologian
The believer’s body as a मन्दिरम् housing the Spirit’s direct presence must not be read as requiring priestly ritual mediation or a consecrated image (mūrti) to activate divine presence, as in ordinary Hindu temple theology; and ‘bought with a price’ must not be assimilated to a transactional offering-and-return exchange akin to prasāda’s structure, since Christ’s payment is unilateral and complete.
Marriage and Singleness
Sanskrit name: विवाहः अविवाहित्वं च
Key terms: marriage, unmarried, gift, undivided devotion to the Lord
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul’s commendation of permanent, freely chosen singleness ‘for the sake of the kingdom’ must never be rendered with ब्रह्मचर्यम्, the formally defined first āśrama life-stage of the varṇāśrama-dharma system (properly preceding marriage, with its own vows and social status); Paul describes a lifelong alternative state, not a stage in a fixed sequence.
Warning From Israel’s History (Typology)
Sanskrit name: इस्राएलेतिहासात् चेतावनी
Key terms: baptized into Moses, type/example, these things happened as examples
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires explicit Exodus wilderness-narrative background explanation; this is linear historical typology instructive for the present church, not the cyclical yuga-recurrence framework of Purāṇic cosmology.
Christian Baptism
Sanskrit name: बप्तिस्मः
Key terms: baptized, baptism, one body through one Spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL AVOIDANCE: never दीक्षा, the technical term for guru-mediated ritual initiation with mantra-transmission admitting one to a specific practice-lineage. Christian baptism is a Spirit-worked incorporation into Christ’s one body, not initiation into a teaching-lineage; use the established transliteration बप्तिस्मः per Serampore precedent.
Communion With Demons versus the Lord’s Table
Sanskrit name: पिशाचानां प्रभोश्च भोजनपीठयोः भेदः
Key terms: table of the Lord, table of demons, fellowship with demons
Review routing: Human theologian
The claim that pagan sacrificial worship is, unknown to the worshippers, actually offered to malevolent spiritual beings has no fully clean Sanskrit vessel (असुर and राक्षस both carry unrelated narrative/cosmological baggage); पिशाचः is retained as least-encumbered but this passage’s underlying claim must be explicitly theologically framed at every occurrence, not assumed self-evident.
Order in Worship: Headship and Gender Roles
Sanskrit name: आराधनायाः व्यवस्था शिरस्त्वं च
Key terms: headship, head covering, image and glory of God, women should be silent
Review routing: Human theologian
The Christ-man-woman relational-order metaphor (κεφαλή) must be rendered as a relational-authority image, not an ontological worth-ranking, and must not be assimilated to varṇa-style hierarchical categories; flagged for the AI-instructions’ government/authority and honor/shame sensitivity categories in addition to standard doctrinal review.
Order in Worship: Tongues and Prophecy
Sanskrit name: आराधनायाः व्यवस्था भाषाः भविष्यवाणी च
Key terms: tongues, prophecy, interpretation, God is not a God of confusion but of peace, edification
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul’s comparative ranking (prophecy edifies the assembled church; uninterpreted tongues do not without interpretation) must be preserved structurally, not flattened; tongues-vocabulary carries the same Vāc-theology/śabda-brahman/mantra-efficacy risk documented under Spiritual Gifts above and must be reapplied consistently here.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostolic Rights and Self-Discipline
Sanskrit name: प्रेषितस्य अधिकाराः आत्मसंयमश्च
Key terms: rights, imperishable crown, discipline the body, run the race
Review routing: Native speaker review
Athletic self-discipline for ministry endurance has mild resonance with ascetic tapas traditions (bodily austerity for spiritual attainment); must be distinguished from merit-accumulation or siddhi-attainment goals, since Paul’s discipline serves gospel proclamation, not personal spiritual advancement.
Closing Greetings and Liturgical Acclamation
Sanskrit name: अन्त्यनमस्काराः मारान्-अथा-उद्घोषश्च
Key terms: Maranatha, holy kiss, grace of the Lord Jesus
Review routing: Native speaker review
Maranatha should be preserved as a transliteration (मारान् अथा) rather than reduced to a plain Sanskrit equivalent, per the Abba precedent in the Romans baseline, to retain its early liturgical acclamatory character; the holy-kiss greeting custom requires only a cultural-practice note for the scholarly/liturgical audience, not doctrinal correction.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Giving (the Collection)
Sanskrit name: दानसङ्ग्रहः
Key terms: collection, set aside, first day of the week
Review routing: Automated review
Administrative instruction with no significant doctrinal collision; standard vocabulary.
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