Speaking in tongues?

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Dryhn

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Here is alink that was given to me from my AI assitant. I can't get on Facebook so I haven't heard this myself, but it is of a woman speaking in tongues in Chinese and recognized by people in the congregation. There are several others, but this is the best example according to AI. - 11 reactions · 5 comments | Whew, this my first time ever hearing tongues spoken in Chinese! SPEAK HANNAH | Khalil Streeter
Yes, I did watch it as have done with other similar well presented/rehearsed ? ones before

Tongues :-
UNknown - the ones today where some believers like yourself talk in a 'dialect' that no-one inc you understands
Known -the Acts 2:4-6 type where a foreign language is spoken & understood by others but not by the talker.

For the KNOWN type to be legitimate today it would require bona-fide confirmation & no contradictory rumors by persons known to the talker that he clearly communicated in a language that others understood yet he had no previous training of.

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If I entered a Chinese gathering & started spreading the Gospel to them in their language & they clearly understood me, that would be 100% proof to myself & people that know me well that indeed the tongues gift was given to me.
I do not speak in any type of tongue nor do I understand a word of Chinese :)
 

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I'm a retired Global Methodist pastor. My successor told me, once when he was praising God in other tongues,, an emotional Korean present informed him that he was praising God in fluent Korean.

A pastor's wife in Saskatchewan gave an interpretation of a message in tongues. The Holy Spirit was comforting her with the message that her missionary daughter was now safe and on the way home from Africa.
The daughter had been trapped in a tribal warfare predicament. An African immigrant present confirmed that the message in tongues was an auccurate transation of fluent Swahili, a language the speaker had never learned.
 

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I'm a retired Global Methodist pastor. My successor told me, once when he was praising God in other tongues,, an emotional Korean present informed him that he was praising God in fluent Korean.

A pastor's wife in Saskatchewan gave an interpretation of a message in tongues. The Holy Spirit was comforting her with the message that her missionary daughter was now safe and on the way home from Africa.
The daughter had been trapped in a tribal warfare predicament. An African immigrant present confirmed that the message in tongues was an auccurate transation of fluent Swahili, a language the speaker had never learned.
In this day & age there would be MANY confirmed video recordings of similar type occurences.
Please list ANY that you are aware of that are CONFIRMED as legitimate
 

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Yes, I did watch it as have done with other similar well presented/rehearsed ? ones before

Tongues :-
UNknown - the ones today where some believers like yourself talk in a 'dialect' that no-one inc you understands
Known -the Acts 2:4-6 type where a foreign language is spoken & understood by others but not by the talker.

For the KNOWN type to be legitimate today it would require bona-fide confirmation & no contradictory rumors by persons known to the talker that he clearly communicated in a language that others understood yet he had no previous training of.

eg:-
If I entered a Chinese gathering & started spreading the Gospel to them in their language & they clearly understood me, that would be 100% proof to myself & people that know me well that indeed the tongues gift was given to me.
I do not speak in any type of tongue nor do I understand a word of Chinese :)
I gave you the testimony of my friend who had a language expert identify her tongue a Syriac. I am not lying and neither was my friend. There is no Biblical evidence to support that any form of tongue is not operational today.
 

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I gave you the testimony of my friend who had a language expert identify her tongue a Syriac. I am not lying and neither was my friend. There is no Biblical evidence to support that any form of tongue is not operational today.
Syriac is a language spoken today
Where is the testimony & proof that before this occasion she never spoke the Syriac language ?
 

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Syriac is a language spoken today
Where is the testimony & proof that before this occasion she never spoke the Syriac language ?
She was from New England and never spoke in any foreign language until after she was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I never spoke in any tongue until I was baptized in the Holy Spirit after I had been a Christian for eleven years.
 

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She was from New England and never spoke in any foreign language until after she was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I never spoke in any tongue until I was baptized in the Holy Spirit after I had been a Christian for eleven years.
I would, would you ? !!!!
Any believer who spread the Gospel in a language they NEVER PREVIOUSLY knew would grab EVERYONE that knows them, gather SWORN testimonies and spread it ALL OVER EVERYWHERE to bring glory to GOD

Please list some :)
 

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I would, would you ? !!!!
Any believer who spread the Gospel in a language they NEVER PREVIOUSLY knew would grab EVERYONE that knows them, gather SWORN testimonies and spread it ALL OVER EVERYWHERE to bring glory to GOD

Nope, they wouldn't. I attended a couple of Kathryn Kuhlman healing crusages at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium in 1969. A father brought his crippled young son to the meeting. The boy was born without hips. But he was given new hips in the meeting. The Dad shared his testimony later, but did not seek to spread the word everywhere. Kathryn would single out one of countless others to give their testimony, insisting that they bring all their before and after medical recorcds to prove the miracle.

The meetings began at 12 noon, but to get 1 of the 9,000 seats, you had to get there an hour early. The spiritual atmosphere was absolutely electrifying!
 

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The meetings began at 12 noon, but to get 1 of the 9,000 seats, you had to get there an hour early. The spiritual atmosphere was absolutely electrifying!
The spiritual atmosphere
Do you accept the teaching/commandments from Paul ?
1 Cor 14:37
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
 

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The meetings began at 12 noon, but to get 1 of the 9,000 seats, you had to get there an hour early. The spiritual atmosphere was absolutely electrifying!
The spiritual atmosphere was absolutely electrifying!

Like this from the 41 second mark ?

 

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Why would any believer record a prayer meeting?

In this day, no one would be (or should be) convinced by what they see on a video anyway.

It reminds me of the rich man who went to hell and asked Abraham to send Lazarus back to warn his brothers ...
Abraham answered that if they did not believe the Scriptures they would not believe even if they saw one who rose from the dead.
Luke 16:22-31

The only experiences that I know of personally where a person spoke in an unknown language recognized by others, were spontaneous and not under the speaker's own volition ... and the context was when God was saying something about salvation or healing to the hearer.

There are many online testimonies of people who have witnessed God speaking in this way.
 

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It was worth the year I spent at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena just for priviledge of 2 chances to witness a Kathryn Kuhlman healing crusade. When she lay dying, the odor of roses in her hospital room was so strong that it could be still smelled aross the street from the hospital.
 

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In this day, no one would be (or should be) convinced by what they see on a video anyway.

It reminds me of the rich man who went to hell and asked Abraham to send Lazarus back to warn his brothers ...
Abraham answered that if they did not believe the Scriptures they would not believe even if they saw one who rose from the dead.
Luke 16:22-31

The only experiences that I know of personally where a person spoke in an unknown language recognized by others, were spontaneous and not under the speaker's own volition ... and the context was when God was saying something about salvation or healing to the hearer.

There are many online testimonies of people who have witnessed God speaking in this way.
The only experiences that I know of personally where a person spoke in an unknown language recognized by others, were spontaneous and not under the speaker's own volition

Tongues Acts 2:4-6- speaking in a KNOWN language that previously the talker never knew yet others understood

Someone spontaneously spreading the gospel in a language they never knew in front of people who intimately know their language abilities would be SUCH A FANTASTIC opportunity to glorify GOD by spreading that to the world via group testimonies

Yet apparently you think otherwise.

Maybe you think this type of tongue is evidence of Acts 2:4-6 type tongues today :)

From the 41 second mark

 

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It was worth the year I spent at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena just for priviledge of 2 chances to witness a Kathryn Kuhlman healing crusade. When she lay dying, the odor of roses in her hospital room was so strong that it could be still smelled aross the street from the hospital.
Great, then she would be able to lay hands on critically ill babies and have them recover within hours

Any confirmations of that anywhere ?
TIA
 

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The only experiences that I know of personally where a person spoke in an unknown language recognized by others, were spontaneous and not under the speaker's own volition

Tongues Acts 2:4-6- speaking in a KNOWN language that previously the talker never knew yet others understood

what I was trying to convey ... a person speaking in a language unknown to the speaker but known by the hearer/s