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Grace for Klingons?

Can a Klingon understand Grace? Can he understand love as something other than erotica or filial honor? Can he understand forgiveness or mercy? There are not really words for these in the Klingon tongue. The only way to express Love in Klingon is as not hate. The only way to describe Grace would be probably not revenge. So it seems like a Klingon would be hard pressed to understand the nature of God.

Something in English that is as simple as, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16) becomes in Klingon something much more complicated like that which is written below:

God didn't hate the world so much that he didn't want to take it over he didn't want to conquer it. He didn't want to destroy it. He did not withhold His Son the Great Warrior but Sent Him out to Conquer. He was a Great Warrior who didn't conquer others. He had such honor that He only sought to conquer the hatred, the pride and the greed that tempted Him. He took all the hatred, pride and greed for everyone and killed it on the cross where He became a Great Warrior. He became the Great Warrior who showed everyone how to be a great warrior. Now everyone who believed this Son of God could be a great warrior. They could now sit before the Great Warrior with God and live forever in a place where all hatred, pride, and greed and every great evil were conquered.(Klingon exposition of John 3:16)


The question is, is this problem unique to Klingons? Are there some people who have this same handicap of not being able to understand Grace, Forgiveness, Love, or Righteousness? Are there some people who do not have the honor or the ability to conquer these enemies of self? I admit that I was once and sometimes still am one of these Klingon/people.

This is the Truth of why God did have to send His Son Jesus to us. He really was the Great Warrior who conquered all sin for us (Romans 5:12-15). This was necessary because we all have sin (Romans 3:10). It was also necessary because sin keeps us from God (Romans 8:7). If you believe and receive what He did on the Cross then you can take part in that (Romans 10:9-10)and be a Great Warrior with Him (Romans 8:37).

To learn how you too can become a Great Warrior in Christ read ABC’s of Salvation here