2006-12-31 09:17:12 · 17 answers · asked by kellygirlaj 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Apostles were given the gift of toungs on the day The Church was established... there were, at that time, many different peoples in Jeruselem. they spoke many diff. languages... When the Apostles spoke is these "tongues", different languages. they were understood by those hearing them, in the languages the hearers spoke... The Apostles were not speaking in unknown tongues... each one was understood by someone hearing. They were actual laguages... There is no justification for the so-called speaking in tongues today... unless there is someone who speaks a different laguage present... then God might just decide to give someone the ability to speak that language to convey a mesage... but if there is no one there to understand what is said there is to be no speaking in tongues...
2006-12-31 09:25:56 · answer #1 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were Jews visiting Jerusalem from all over the Middle East and Europe. The all spoke different languages. This was a "sign miracle" from God to validate the gospel message. All the apostles were uneducated men-yet on the day of Pentecost they all spoke different languages and amazed the Jews so that they believed- see Acts 2.
We see the gift of speaking in languages in Acts, then in 1st Corinthians the Apostle Paul rebukes the Corinthians believers for the misuse of tongues. Tongues or languages are missing from church history from the writing of 1st Corinthians in about 55 A.D. until the Pentecostal movement in the United States around 1912. Most conservative Bible students, myself included, believe this modern tongues movement is false.
2006-12-31 17:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by Desperado 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose is prayer in a spiritual language...
There are things beyond words or ways we can communicate...speaking in tongues is a gift of the Holy Spirit moving between us and God.
2006-12-31 17:20:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
speaking in tongues is only your spirit praying for you. The devil can't interfer with your prayer because he does not understand the heavenly language. I can speak in tongues. This language is what your spirit speaks when you pray to the Lord. Your spirit knows what you need and it tongues gets your prayers right to his throne. It's ok if you don't know how to speak in tongues. But you can also ask God to have the gift of tongues.
2006-12-31 17:55:20 · answer #4 · answered by kaye879 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of the nuttier people who believe the fantasy that is religion also insist that if you are filled with the holy spirit, you should be able to speak in tongues (different older languages). This is proof that you are filled with this spirit. Alot of deusion takes place here. When people want to believe soething bad enough, their own brain makes it happen. All the documentation on this points to people babbling giberish but IT'S TONGUES to the true believer.
2006-12-31 18:51:20 · answer #5 · answered by tron 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Speaking in tongues gods personal messager.
2006-12-31 17:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by Iris AL CT Slade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originally in the 2nd Chapter of Acts, the apostles spoke in tongues (foreign) which they had not learned, by virtue of the power of Him who created all language and speaking ability. Subsequently the gift of tongues is a language which I use in direct communication with G-d and which other believers utilize individually or severally according to practice in their congregation. Yet Paul, who spoke in tongues more then to all of his hearers, preferred them to utilize gifts which were edifying to the body of Maschiach (Christ). Tongues may be considered to be the least of the gifts, because so many are able to. The ability to be able to speak words of truth and to speak them eloquently so that people are able to get a grasp of what G-d wants us to know, is a more to be desired gift then tongues. Ultimately, per 1 Corinthians 13 regardless of what spiritual gift one uses, if it is not used in love, it is worthless.
2006-12-31 17:31:32 · answer #7 · answered by Peace W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am a christain.
it is my belief that there is no point in speaking in tongues . when we speak it is really only of use if we know what we are saying and the people listening understand what we said.
i belief i have heard two words from a messenger of God and i tell you the message was in english and could not have been more clear. i think it is most likely that when God speaks to a person he speaks in the language they understand.
2006-12-31 17:22:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tapping into the Sacred grounds of the Angelic World of the subconscious. This is similar to musical improvisation, automatic writing and drawing... letting through the realm of the creative
2006-12-31 17:25:39 · answer #9 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the book of Acts, pray, and decide for yourself. I myself, was raised Southern Baptist and anti-pentacostal, but have come to speak in toungues to my own surprise. God gives different gifts to different people, so just pray, and read what Paul wrote about the matter.
2006-12-31 17:21:06 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋