Is speaking in tongues biblical?

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Is speaking in tongues biblical? Christanon 07/29/18 (Sun) 15:09:11 dc6db4 No.681441

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played? And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle? So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air. There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning, but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say "Amen" to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. In the Law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord." Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.

1 Corinthians 14:1‭-‬25 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/1co.14.1-25.ESV

Christanon 07/29/18 (Sun) 21:53:43 3cc54c No.681628

Christanon 07/29/18 (Sun) 23:29:04 0e234e No.681674

Speaking in tongues (other languages) was a divine gift given by the Holy Spirit to the apostles so they could fulfil their roles in spreading the gospel to all nations.

Christanon 07/29/18 (Sun) 23:48:15 e2304a No.681696

People at my church do that, never understood it, wished i lived close to a city for better choice

Christanon 07/30/18 (Mon) 00:31:54 f04073 No.681731

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>>681441

C-3PO Crashes a Pentecostal Revival

Christanon 07/30/18 (Mon) 03:04:23 3b2f3f No.681831

I don’t think the church needs to do it, but if you think that it is beneficial to yourself and you keep it for yourself then by all means do it. Remember what Paul said though, Love is the most important part, and tounges should be an outpouring of love.

Christanon 07/30/18 (Mon) 19:09:54 73dda9 No.682121

>>681441

Its one of the many gifts the Spirit can give you, you don't need it for salvation, but there's nothing wrong with praying for it since it helps you pray about things you don't understand yourself.

Don't feel bad if you have it, I don't have it either. One thing I've noticed is people tend to get it depending on how desperate they are for the truth, for example people who have been searching for the truth a long time can get learn to speak in tongues almost immediately after coming to faith

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Christanon 07/31/18 (Tue) 23:32:21 ca016e No.682524

>>681441

Do you mean speaking in a way that is perfectly understandable for anyone regardless of what their native language might be, so that you can establish the Church in the first century? Then yes.

Do you mean rolling on the floor while vomiting garbled nonsens as if you had a seizure? Then no.

Christanon 08/01/18 (Wed) 02:33:16 95c692 No.682591

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I have a co-worker who is always doing what this woman does. And she says I'm going to Hell because I've never prayed this way.

Christanon 08/01/18 (Wed) 02:36:36 d19148 No.682594

>>682591

Next time she says that, how about you ask her to back that up with Scripture.

If she comes back with Acts 2, remind her that 1) The gift of tongues is to spontaneously speak another language, 2) Paul sets reasonable limits on those who have the gift in 1 Corinthians 14, and 3) If not all Christians are expected to have the gift of tongues, then by her logic the vast majority of Christians are not saved.

Christanon 08/01/18 (Wed) 03:22:53 c2d064 No.682608

>Is speaking in tongues biblical

There are two requirements for speaking another language in the Bible they are 1 corinthians 14:27-28

>If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

>But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

And 1 corinthians 14:12-13

>Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

>Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

You have to: edify the church, have an interpreter, and have a listener that is edified. If you do not have those things then you are not only incorrectly doing it, you aren't edifying either. Those people who murmur bullshit that no one understands are not edifying anyone so 1 corinthians 14:28 applies

>But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Christanon 08/01/18 (Wed) 21:09:29 e6f7d0 No.682895

>>681441

What was the point of spiritual gifts during the days of the apostles?

To spread God's gospel and allow the congregation to reach out towards the corners of the world.

Do this churches typically emphasize these points whenever they gather together with the spirit?

>Not really

Well, there you go. They're looking for mysteries without a goal, and (perhaps) allowing themselves to become (potentially) conned just to fill that excitement/spiritualism where other Christian communities seemingly lack.

Christanon 08/10/18 (Fri) 19:21:47 26a6b2 No.686523

>>681441

From what I have read in the bible, tongues is a gift that allows you to speak in other languages so you can spread the Gospel to other nations. But when I hear other people "speaking in tongues," it sounds like they're just babbling. Not speaking another language with any form or structure.