=Agape;30309]:amen:From the great Apostle Paul who Jesus Christ Himself taught the gospel and the manifestations of the gift of holy spirit of which speaking in tongues is ONE -- "I would that ye all spake with tongues" (I Cor. 14.5). Paul also said, "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all) (I Cor. 14:18). That Paul spoke in tongues often is the reason why he received such an abundance of revelation!
The "tongues" Paul spoke with was not some garbled language no one, including the speaker, understood. The word tongues means a language not familar to the speaker, a language he was not born with, one he doesn't speak in everyday life. Paul could speak many languages (tongues) and as he stated, "I would that ye all spake with tongues" because then those hearing the message of God could easily be understood....an interpreter wouldn't be needed. The following scripture explains what Paul meant?1 Corinthians 14:9 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.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.13.Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpet.
It's amazing how a testimony form someone no one here ever met or knows should carry more weight and influence with Christians than what Paul wrote THREE CHAPTERS, 12, 13 and 14 of I Corinthians by revelation from God regarding the manifestations and gifts of Holy Spirit.
What Paul wrote in THREE CHAPTERS, 12, 13 AND 14 of 1 Corinthians was not about babble (I hate to call it that but can't think of a better word) but was about foreign languages.....all of which can be understood by the person hearing it.
A person's testimony is not the Word of Truth. The truths within the Scriptures stand alone and are attested to, not by one's experience, which is no guarantee for truth, but by the testimony of God's Word ALONE of which God Himself is Author.I am not, by any means, saying that this person who gave his testimony of what he experience did not love God with all his heart. I believe it was due to a lack of knowledge on his part regarding the proper use of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit the Church. The confusion of "gifts" and "manifestations" in the early Church made it necessary for God by way of the Apostle Paul, to set in order not only the gifts of God, but the manifestations of the gift of holy spirit.
Perhaps it is a lack of knowledge of those of us that are not correctly reading the Word of God, with understanding as to what the word "tongues" means, which is....an unacquired language. Meaning, one you were not born with but had to learn or were gifted with by the Holy Spirit..........Whirlwind