I do not understand this speaking in tongues, as I've said before in other threads, speaking in tongues to me has always been associated with evil, possession, as Tabletalk as mentioned.
Is it a language that does not exist at all on this Earth? I mean no offense, I just really don't understand.
That is all a matter of experiences and we have seen evil leaders in every denomination. The question is; what Christ said about the Holy Spirit, is that true? What Paul said about the Holy Spirit, is that true? How do you think the Holy Spirit guides us...please keep in mind that the New Testament would be written decades later. And then there is Pentecost? And oh I forgot....
Get what is being said about the gift of tongues...so far what seems to be the experience for me was as Tabletalk mentioned ...i wouldn’t say so much evil (to me) but chaos and confusion. Every one so far I’ve heard has the gift of tongues is quick to point out those with fake tongues. Saying that is not them but a counterfeit. So far ...cannot say the gift of tongues displayed today has held up to profiting the whole in if God’s Spirit is in it ...why is what is being said not being brought out into the light?
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves
together, and
edify one another, even as also ye do.
^ paul asked how this edification of the whole is possible when there is chaos and confusion and everyone edifying themselves in some “unknown tongue”? When it is meant to be when the body gathers together ...it is “together”. Also have to consider the warning of having tables at home and coming together to feast and the poor go away hungry...while another is drunk. Paul urged how would one come in off the street and be met with chaos and not leave saying “they are mad”...meaning by feeding themselves others left completely confused at the disjointed tongues of self edification.
Ephesians 5:19-20 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord; [20]
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
^ can be done where others see and hear and understand your joy and God is glorified? How is that possible if ...everyone has a prayer language only between him and God and then together...there is not “together”.
1 Corinthians 14:6-19 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you,
except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? [7] And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? [8] For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? [9] So likewise ye,
except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. [10] There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. [11] Therefore
if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. [12] Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts,
seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. [13] Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. [14] For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is
unfruitful. [15] What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also:
I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. [16]
Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit,
how shall he that
occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? [17] For
thou verily givest thanks well, but
the other is not edified. [18] I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: [19] Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
“For
thou verily givest thanks well, but
the other is not edified. “
