Davy
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The TRUE CLOVEN TONGUE of Pentecost per Acts 2 went out as KNOWN LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD. Everyone present heard and understood in their very dialect of where they were born.
In the Greek NT manuscripts, there is an alternation between the Greek words glossa which means language, and dialektos which means dialect of a language. That is what the crowd heard.
A dialect means the slang of the language you were born into. If you're from the northern U.S. you'd hear 'you's guys'. If from the southern U.S.A. you'd hear, 'you all'. That is what the people on Pentecost heard the Apostle's speak. It was highly accurate. God knows how we speak and hear.
The true cloven tongue is not a gibberish tongue. It is the one language which all peoples once spoke prior to the tower of Babel. God confused the one language, and divided the nations, scattering them to the four corners of the earth. That one language is to return to all one day (Zeph.3).
In 1 Corinthians 14, in the KJV, the phrase "unknown tongue" is a mis-translation. The actual Greek word there is glossa, which means a known language of the world. There is no such thing as an 'unknown' tongue written of in God's Word. You're reading a translation error with that added word 'unknown'.
Why is it important to understand how the cloven tongue of Pentecost is not an unknown tongue? -
It's because the cloven tongue went out as KNOWN languages of the world, and was understood by everyone present.
Those pushing the 'unknown' idea do that in order to support a gibberish tongue that no one can understand. And they hope that someone will be present to interpret for them. Paul was actually speaking about others who might know the language of the world being spoken that might be able to interpret for the Church. He wasn't speaking of some gibberish tongue.
Now if you go to a foreign country, and they don't speak your language, then it will sound like gibberish if you don't know their language. But if the cloven tongue is spoken there, then even you will hear them speak in your OWN LANGUAGE OF BIRTH. And that is the sign of the true cloven tongue.
In the Greek NT manuscripts, there is an alternation between the Greek words glossa which means language, and dialektos which means dialect of a language. That is what the crowd heard.
A dialect means the slang of the language you were born into. If you're from the northern U.S. you'd hear 'you's guys'. If from the southern U.S.A. you'd hear, 'you all'. That is what the people on Pentecost heard the Apostle's speak. It was highly accurate. God knows how we speak and hear.
The true cloven tongue is not a gibberish tongue. It is the one language which all peoples once spoke prior to the tower of Babel. God confused the one language, and divided the nations, scattering them to the four corners of the earth. That one language is to return to all one day (Zeph.3).
In 1 Corinthians 14, in the KJV, the phrase "unknown tongue" is a mis-translation. The actual Greek word there is glossa, which means a known language of the world. There is no such thing as an 'unknown' tongue written of in God's Word. You're reading a translation error with that added word 'unknown'.
Why is it important to understand how the cloven tongue of Pentecost is not an unknown tongue? -
It's because the cloven tongue went out as KNOWN languages of the world, and was understood by everyone present.
Those pushing the 'unknown' idea do that in order to support a gibberish tongue that no one can understand. And they hope that someone will be present to interpret for them. Paul was actually speaking about others who might know the language of the world being spoken that might be able to interpret for the Church. He wasn't speaking of some gibberish tongue.
Now if you go to a foreign country, and they don't speak your language, then it will sound like gibberish if you don't know their language. But if the cloven tongue is spoken there, then even you will hear them speak in your OWN LANGUAGE OF BIRTH. And that is the sign of the true cloven tongue.
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