I keep hearing this term but have no clue to what it might be? sorry I'm not from here! please explain!
2007-03-15 07:59:08 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Spontaneously speaking in another language without knowing that language, usually because you're "touched" by some sort of supernatural knowledge or spirit.
2007-03-15 08:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
gibberish, nonsense, random words and sounds. The person just starts 'talking' and says whatever syllable or sound comes out. Little children do it all the time. I used to talk in my sleep and it sounded like I was 'speaking in tongues'. In the religious sense, it's when you are supposedly so overcome by the spirit that you have to let it all out somehow. I think it kind of makes sense in a weird way. It's an interesting way of speaking about how you feel about God when no real words can describe how you feel. People do it purposely now, it's not as if it's an actual magical language that means anything.
The Bible may explain it differently.
2007-03-15 15:09:47 · answer #2 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's something that happened at 'Pentecost' in the New Testament. The book of Acts is the first account of what we now call 'speaking in tongues'.
A believer in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit believes that the Holy Spirit can act through believers in spiritual ways, with the intention of directing others to Christ Jesus, and to assist those that are 'saved'. The New Testament letters from Paul to various churches and people give some pretty good detail on this mystery, as well as other spiritual 'gifts'.
2007-03-15 15:08:03 · answer #3 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God's spirit also empowered the disciples of Jesus to do miraculous things. Acts 2:1-4 relates that the disciples were assembled together at Pentecost when "suddenly there occurred from heaven a noise just like that of a rushing stiff breeze, . . . and they all became filled with holy spirit and started to speak with different tongues, just as the spirit was granting them to make utterance."
So the holy spirit gave Jesus and other servants of God the power to do what humans ordinarily could not do.
1 Corinthians 13:8-10 states: 8 Love never fails. But whether there are [gifts of] prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially; 10 but when that which is complete arrives, that which is partial will be done away with.
Speaking tongues has ceased to be.
At least 'truly' speaking in tongues. People today claim they have or can, but that gift from God has ceased.
2007-03-15 15:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by ♥LadyC♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Scriptures teach that speaking in tongues is a gift of the Holy Spirit which allows someone to speak in a foreign language that one does not actually know (in Greek, xenolalia). The Scriptures also indicate that the gift of tongues could mean making ecstatic utterances that are intelligible to God and others who have the gift of interpreting tongues (in Greek, glossalalia). This page provides some biblical information about “tongues-speaking
2007-03-15 15:51:13 · answer #5 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some religions it is believed that the Holy Spirit enters a person and the person begins spontaneously speaking in other languages (not like French or anything... just very different languages) that are even foreign to the people speaking it themselves. Sometimes people come to interpret what they're saying. It's a rather strange experience to witness if you're religion does not practice this because it appears the whole church has gone mad, and they sometimes roll on the floor and move in strange ways too. It's supposed to be a great honor though and very sacred, so its nothing to make fun of... but they're sometimes referred to as 'Holy Rollers' too.
2007-03-15 15:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by ClevelandSportsFan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each year, the LDS church teach 25,000 missionaries to speak in 89 different languages before sending them to every continent on earth.
Salt Lake City has more languages spoken there than any place in the world (because of returned missionaries that live there) This is the greatest manifestation of speaking in tongues today.
2007-03-15 15:10:12 · answer #7 · answered by msender77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a deeper form of prayer and communication with God. It is a gift from God given by the Holy Spirit yet only understood by God. Paul details it the New Testament and it was spoken of by prophets in the Old Testament.
Once you have given your life over to Jesus, ask for the infilling of the Holy Spirit. One of the signs is speaking in tongues. There are many forms and languages as described in the book of Acts.
It is not something that can be taught in a church by man. Only God through the Holy Spirit can give it to you. If it is something you truly desire, simply ask for it.
2007-03-15 15:11:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People in a non-denominational church speak in tongues. They believe that god uses their bodys to send messages to others. For example a person talking in tongues may not be able to be understood but sometimes they speak in english right afterward. Some of them translate what they have just said. They believe it is a message from god.
2007-03-15 15:05:11 · answer #9 · answered by hotlittleblondechick 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The best source of information is the Bible, where it tells of people speaking in tongues and gives teaching about it.
Read Mark chapter 16, Acts chapter 2, I Corinthians chapter 12 & 14.
god bless
2007-03-15 15:05:56 · answer #10 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋