i have been attending a pentecostal church. what do yall think of speaking in tongues, no makeup, jewelry, etc

Answer 1

I think the fixation on speaking in tongues and the prohibition of jewelry or makeup within the Pentecostal movement is indicative of two things. First, the Pentecostal denomination grossly misinterprets scripture with regards to the tongues issue. Number two, the prohibitions mandated by the church demonstrate that they are more concerned with the letter of the law than the spirit of the law; the latter being what Jesus emphasized.

Answer 2

What most churches do is not real. In New Testament times, that was needed to aid in spreading the gospel and to assure those being taught that the teaching was from God. Now, we have the scriptures to refer to in order to find if what is said is true. True glossalalia was speaking in ACTUAL LANGUAGES. It was used if the teacher and listeners didn't speak the same language of if someone was there who could translate the LANGUAGE they were speaking. Paul's instructions to the church in Corinth forbid its use without a translator.

Paul also told them that the gifts were temporary and would come to an end. I have had many Christians complain that the time described in 1Co13:8-10 has not yet come. This grows from a misunderstanding of the original language here. The word translated here "perfect" is "telios" which is alternately translated with complete, mature, finished... Here it is speaking of the New Testament which was being written and compiled at the time. Once it was complete, or finished, the NEED for tongues would no longer exist and they would no longer exist.

1Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails. But prophecy will pass away. Speaking in languages that had not been known before will end. And knowledge will pass away. 9 What we know now is not complete. What we prophesy now is not perfect. 10 But when what is perfect comes, the things that are not perfect will pass away.

What is seen today is NOT LANGUAGES as this was, (Ac 2:7 The crowd was really amazed. They asked, “Aren’t all these people from Galilee? 8 Why, then, do we each hear them speaking in our own native language?) but the creation of a mind in a state like hypnosis.

Answer 3

I belong to a church that isn't Pentecostal, but believes in the "gifts of the Spirit". When I heard people speaking in what some called "tongues", I went to my Bible and studied it. What I believe after careful study is that most of what is called speaking in tongues is actually people praying in a "prayer language". When speaking in a "tongue" in public there should ALWAYS be someone present who can interpret. If there is no one who can interpret then it should not be done in public. Paul says that while we should seek spiritual gifts, it is better to speak a few words that instruct the people than a thousand words in a tongue no one can understand.
What I believe as far as make-up and jewelry, it depends on your reasons for wearing them. If it's for personal reasons I think it's fine. If it's done with the intent to make men lust after you, then that's wrong.
What's important is to study God's Word and find out what's really in there!
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Answer 4

I think that if this church makes you feel serenity, and a sense of spirituality==go for it. I don't believe there is any wrong or right church for anyone. The makeup and jewelery, what does it matter? If you don't mind it doesn't matter. We are all on a spiritual quest, and this may be part of yours. You know that beauty is within, and jewelry is only an adornment of who you really are. Tongues are something else, right or wrong I don't know. There are many gifts from God that we feel are strange or different. The question is what do you think of tongues, no makeup or jewelry?????????????????? I wish you love in your quest, ultimately there are no wrong paths, all lead to new insight.

Answer 5

I have no concerns about the cultural issues such as no makeup, jewelry, ect... If you are alright with that, then go for it. Speaking in tongues, as it is practiced in most pentecostal churches is a theological problem. You will be expected to speak in tongues as evidence that you are in the Spirit. I would recommend that you research this issue for yourself. There is no scriptural indication that all of us who are Christians should be speaking in tongues. If you find yourself uncomfortable with speaking in tongues then you will want to find another type of church. There are conservative churches which do no require speaking in tongues.

Answer 6

I believe the gift of tongues is still active but not part of every Christians life as according to 1 Cor 12, and should also not be practiced in groups without an interpreter as per 1 Cor 14.

I believe the clothing rules were cultural, as in those times make up and jewlery were worn only by prostitutes. Now adays thats not the case but a person should never make themselves look "sexy"

Answer 7

Speaking in toungues was a sign in the new testament times that was to confirm the word and allow people to teach others of different languages. In Acts 2 when the apostles spoke in toungues, men understood in their own language.

After the New Testament was completed, there was no longer a need for such signs, and that is why the apostle Paul declared that they would cease. (1 Corinthians 13:8)

Also, such gifts were passed on to other people by the laying on of the apostles hands. They gave a gift (tongues, prophecy, etc.) but they did not give the power for others to also give the gifts. In Acts 8:18-19, a man named Simon saw that gifts were given by the laying on of the apostles hands. He wanted not only the gift, but the power to give the gifts to others. Since the apostles are no longer alive, there is no one on earth to pass these gifts along to others.

Finally, those who spoke in tongues (the miraculous gift that allowed someone to speak a language they had never learned), were told to be silent if there was no interpreter present. (1 Corinthians 14:27-28) So, if you see someone who says he is speaking in tongues, but there is no interpreter or if you see someone who claims to speak in tongues and he says he cannot control himself, what he is doing is not the type of tongue speaking described in the Bible.

Answer 8

If you are having problems with it then you have the freedom to go somewhere else. I attended one for a while but couldn't get around the tongues not being interpreted. Being raised in a Baptist church we were taught that if one speaks in tongues, then someone else should interpret. Paul spoke about this in his letters to the Corinthians. Try looking there and remember that the Bible tells us to "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." Phil 2:12-13
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Answer 9

Truly you are confused like most of the world, speaking in tongues was nothing but speaking in diffirent languages of the world, see for yourself;
Ac 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Ac 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Ac 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Ac 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
Ac 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Ac 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Ac 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Ac 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Answer 10

Run for the hills. You are being brainwashed and controlled. Once you start thinking for yourself, you will be intimidated with warnings that you're going to hell if you don't do what they tell you to do.

My aunt was Pentecostal -- a really sweet woman with a huge, kind heart. But she believed everything she was told and she was a fanatic who shoved her religion in everybody's face. It got to be very hard to be around her because she used every opportunity she had to harp on about her church.

Another relative (a distant one) was Jehovah's Witness. Same stories, only she was worse than the Pentecostal one.