Lets be honest about this.
2006-11-27 06:51:37 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To the girl who reported this...Whats your problem its a question board on religion. what do gotta do Babble Sweet Jesus Questions to you. I think that I hit a nerve. Probaly a Big Faker yerself.
2006-11-27 07:06:08 · update #1
Nooooo....waaaasaaamaaa...shimaaaaa....
2006-11-27 06:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by Speech Hating Monkey 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First let me say I do not practice, nor ever have practiced a religion that believed in speaking in tongues, so this is a completely personal opinion from the outside looking in.
The practice of Glossolalia is widely questioned by most religious factions. The definition of the word is "semantically meaningless syllables". It is not categorically speaking a particular existing language.
There are many different definitions of "speaking in tongues" based on different religious denominations (primarily Pentecostal in Christianity). Generally this entails the belief you are speaking a language you do not speak no matter what that language is...presumably it is any existing language used to convey your witness before the person you are addressing...implying they will understand you because you are speaking what they do. Some believe it is not a "language" at all, but basically babel.
Personally I do not believe in it. Simply put if you are speaking a language I do not speak then I have no way of knowing without detailed analysis of what you say whether you are correctly speaking anything.
To say "it's a miracle, she spoke in Aremaic!" is ridiculous...unless you speak it fluently you don't know what that person is saying.
So much of organized religious expression is based in theatrics I think that is what it is. Do I beleive that the people who are in the throes of it believe with their heart they are speaking in tongues...probably...but mostly I think it is untrue.
2006-11-27 07:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Monkey Queen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would anyone be offended by this question? This is a great question and I have never faked speaking in tongues nor do I have the gift of speaking in tongues. We are to love God and our neighbor and not get caught up in divisions by those who interpret the Scriptures incorrectly.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal 1CO 13:1
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 1CO 13:8-10
2006-11-27 08:28:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I'm not Pentecostal, in any event.
But on the day of the Pentecost, those who were speaking in tongues were speaking in actual, identifiable languages. That is, the apostles were speaking to people who could understand them, even though the apostles had never before known the languages they were fluent in that day.
From what I understand regarding modern-day Pentecostals, they don't speak in any languages previously unknown to them and to others who can understand the languages. They speak in nonsense and whatnot. If there were people from foreign lands in the room, and if those "speaking in tongues" had never before known, say Swahili, and they were all of a sudden able to communicate in Swahili, that would be something, indeed. But "speaking" among one another in what amounts to gibberish and claiming that they've been given the gift from the Holy Spirit is a little nuts. I mean, the point of the Holy Spirit giving the apostles the ability to speak other languages was so that they might communicate about Christ to actual people who were in the area. Not so that they would seem all possessed or glorified. It was a pragmatic gift for a practical reason. As gifts from God tend to be.
2006-11-27 07:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Of course. Everyone who ever has or ever does pray in tongues is faking. But the real howler is when people fake interpreting the gagging noises they're hearing.
2006-11-27 06:54:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I never have but I think the people that I hear are faking it. I even had some one try to explain it to me and it sounds like crap to me
2006-11-27 06:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by seanamhair_nathair_sgiathach 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They'll all say they never faked it. Sometimes I get the urge to babble incoherent nonsense.
I can't blame that on the spirit of atheism, they'd lock me up.
2006-11-27 06:54:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Any dummy can utter nonsense sounds and try to pass them for some strange language.
I have known people who have admitted to faking it.
2006-11-27 06:59:54 · answer #8 · answered by big j 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No! 1 but they say fake it till you make it! LOL
2006-11-27 09:00:18 · answer #9 · answered by righteous992003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lamentably praytell, methinks those words are a fabulously exciting thanks to communicate my ideas in a forthright and posthaste style. i'm a habitually inventive abuser of the english language. lol
2016-11-29 20:34:31 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋