Here is what I burst out laughing about. You said,
Thus leading into verse 13 about when a believer has tongues, that they were to pray while speaking in tongues that somebody else will interpret that tongue being manifested in the tongue speaker. Paul goes on to say that he would understand the tongue for why he is praying that someone will interpret the tongue while that tongue is manifested in him by the Holy Spirit.
13 Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret. Not, somebody else; himself! ROFL
I understand why you would think that but again 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 testify that the Holy Spirit manifests the gifts dividing severally as He wills. Otherwise the tongue speaker does not need to pray if he is going to be able to interpret his own tongue which is an oxymoron because that would be like saying tongue speakers have no need of other if they can interpret their own tongue.
So that "he" that he may interpret is not the tongue speaker himself when 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 sets the precedent on how the Holy Spirit will divide severally the manifestations among the body of believers.
If you continue down in that chapter when it comes to prophesy, two or three prophesy and another judge, whereas it is not clear to you about tongues earlier where 2 or 3 speak in tongues one by one and one judges, meaning not of the ones speaking in tongues.
Otherwise, if a tongue speaker can interpret his own tongue, in according to the witness fact of John 8:17, it is not a true witness coming from that same person for why another has to interpret.
How easy would it be for someone to speak a second or even a third language and interpret it to mislead believers into thinking whatever he was saying is the word of God or the will of God to do? One can even prophesy in their normal language that the church is to give that man all the money the church has because he shall be like Joseph in managing the money when famine strikes. And bye bye.. that man is nowhere to be found. So even those who prophesy future events has to have two or three witnesses and ANOTHER to discern it in judging it as true or not. And if those three prophets came in with that judge, when neither has been members of the body of Christ that long in that church, the church should be suspicious.
So I understand you think it is funny but you ignored the precedent set in 1 Corinthians 12:7-13 for why it is not funny for why that he is not the tongue speaker himself that interprets. No way. That sets the slippery slope in how they are to prophesy.
What a twist! If you refuse to believe what it actually says so you can learn of God, then you have to add words to the written word to make it say what you - your own god - says. Humble yourself and come down off that silly throne of willful arrogance and false pride that makes you think you are above the Word of God and can make it say what you think it says.
And what is a twist? That you can receive self edification by tongues without interpretation? And yet you claim I am adding words to change the meaning of Paul's message when I have not changed it all when keeping in with the message about what God's gift of tongues are for? How ironic is that? You would defend what you do not know what that tongue without interpretation is doing but yet come down on me for applying His words rightly in the written word?
Lord Byron, romantic poet of the early 1800’s, walked into a pub and sat down at a table by the fire. Sitting at the table next to him he overheard the heated conversation of two gentlemen discussing the meaning of a poem – one written by the poet himself. He listened with amusement as they debated over the meaning of the poem, both completely missing the point. Finally, he chimed in with the true meaning of the poem, introducing himself as the author. Even so they stood their ground preferring their own interpretations, and both argued with Lord Byron over the meaning of the poem.
Well here's one for you in proving you had missed the point of God's gift of tongues. If there is really all those benefits for tongues without interpretation, then Paul looks pretty stupid for exhorting believers to seek the gift of prophesy over tongues, because by that tongue without interpretation, a believer can have his own worship without needing any body else in the body for the Holy Spirit to minister to which goes against this verses in 1 Corinthians 12 th chapter.
1 Corinthians 12:7
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9
To another faith by the same Spirit;
to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10
To another the working of miracles;
to another prophecy;
to another discerning of spirits;
to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many..........19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
And that is proof as to why you are not reading Paul's words rightly in the 14th chapter. No way is that "he" being the tongue speaker seeking to interpret his own tongue.
