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It is tongues along with interpretation of tongues that is the sign for the unbeliever. Paul quotes Isaiah when the latter says that the sign to Israel of impending judgment is the stammering speech of foreign invaders. Paul links it with tongues, that when unbelievers come into a church...

The prophetic is not limited to prediction of the future or guidance. Every time we open the Bible and read it, we are reading a prophetic document. Every time we pray, and a verse or passage of Scripture comes to mind that gives greater insight concerning the issue, that is prophetic. The...

I find that when I have a need to pray concerning an issue, and I can't find the words, I pray in tongues. After a short while, I am able to find the right words, and Scripture verses to continue praying in English. It is as if praying with the Spirit, releases a freedom of expression in...

I don't think Paul means that a person is selfish. Jude instructs believers to "build yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Spirit." There is a difference between building oneself up in their most holy faith by praying in tongues, and puffing themselves up in selfish pride...

But Paul backed tongues up in a whole chapter of the Bible. And he said, "Follow me as I follow Christ". Paul's epistles are seen as inspired Holy Scripture, directly inspired by the Holy Spirit whom Jesus sent to the church to continue His presence. Therefore, Paul's writing is directly...

I can't answer that question. I am finding during my reading of Calvin's commentary on John's Gospel that he says some very interesting and insightful things that directly apply to us today. To be fair, he doesn't come across as Cessationist as some of his followers do. However, when I...

I think you might have read my previous post where I quoted John Calvin who said that the evidence of a ministry calling from God is that there is the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit in that person's ministry. This leads me to wonder about ministries that don't have any evidence of the...

I had an appointment this afternoon, so I had to leave for a while. Two points of interest: In all the 55 years I have been praying in tongues, I have heard all the points of opposition to it, and none of it has convinced me that I am doing anything but praying to the Lord in accordance with...

Just to add to your enjoyable post. If we carefully examine the context of why Paul asked the question "do all speak in tongues?" he is reminding us of what he said in 1 Corinthians 12 about the body of Christ being made up of many parts. Therefore his questions to ministry in the church. He...

Why not? There are multitudes of testimonies of native speakers of a language hearing someone speaking in their language when speaking in tongues. I am not talking about the "ba ba sha wa" stuff that some speak. True tongues is a deliberately spoken articulate language properly constructed...

The Scripture says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. So, faith concerning the teaching and use of the gift of tongues comes from reading and studying 1 Corinthians 14 and asking the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth of it. Faith doesn't come by attending a Pentecostal meeting, hearing...

Your response to my experience of someone understanding what I was praying in tongues makes sense and is quite reasonable.

Who says it is angel language? Are you misquoting Paul?

1 Corinthians 14:2. Read it carefully. Apply 5th Grade comprehension to it and see what it actually says.

Yes. The Bible does say that test all things and hold fast to what is good. But what is the basis of the testing? God's Word. And what part of God's Word deals with tongues? 1 Corinthians 14. So, to test whether tongues in a church is genuine, one has to go back to 1 Corinthians 14 and...

You said it yourself: "I don't understand tongues". If you have visited a Pentecostal meeting and concluded that those who are "babbling", then Paul describes you as someone uninitiated in the things of the Holy Spirit. I've heard people like you many times before. I'm an old warrior in the...

So how do you continue to intercede for someone in need when you run out of natural language to express your burden for them? Then again, maybe you never receive a burden of intercession for anyone, and are pretty well content with a short prayer and leave it at that.

I have a close friend who was "babbling" in tongues in a prayer meeting at the church I went to in the 1970s. A Ghanaian visitor stopped the prayer meeting and told my friends what he was saying in his own village dialect! My friend had never been Ghana, let alone to that particular village...

Try reading the Bible properly instead of basing nonsense opinions on random out-of-context verses. Give a close reading and study of all the verses in 1 Corinthians 14 and see what Paul actually says about tongues in his personal prayer life and in church. "I thank God I speak in tongues more...

Believing the Gospel and receiving Christ gets the person saved. No doubt about that. But in order to become sanctified and grow in grace, one needs the baptism with the Spirit, because it is the Holy Spirit alone who can achieve it, and one must have the indwelling and be filled with the...