it may be a touchy subject but i really want to know the world opinion. I pesonaly am filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues but is it against your church that you dont, how you grew up, or are you filled with Spirit and speak in tongues.
(PLEASE DONT BE EMBARESSED BY YOUR ANSWER!!)
Thanks
*Libbie*
2007-07-03 02:56:23 · 15 answers · asked by luvlygurl4god13 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I never did, but in 1991 july i was born again and i started to speak.Most people think it is bs .It is only true believers in the faith that believe in speaking in tongues
2007-07-03 03:22:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible makes clear that Almighty God bestowed upon early Christians the gift of speaking in foreign languages that they had never learned before. In the infancy of the Christian congregation this gift assisted the limited number of disciples to instruct foreigners about “the magnificent things of God.” (Acts 2:5-11) Also the gift of tongues served as a visible evidence of God’s favor upon this new Christian organization. (1 Cor. 14:22) But is speaking in tongues a gift that would remain with the full-grown Christian organization?
Those who think Christians should speak in “tongues” might be very surprised to read in the Bibles that many of them carry that the apostle Paul specifically said that miraculous speaking in tongues would not always continue. He wrote: “Whether there are tongues, they will cease.”—1 Cor. 13:8.
It might also surprise you to learn that not all early Christians spoke in “tongues.” Paul wrote to the Christian congregation in Corinth: “Not all speak in tongues, do they?”—1 Cor. 12:30.
In fact, it seems that the congregation in Corinth was actually attaching too much importance to the matter of tongues. Paul wrote to them not to do so. He asked: “Brothers, if I should come speaking to you in tongues, what good would I do you . . . ?” unless he explained what he said in tongues in language they could understand. He said that, like musical instruments, the voice should not give “indistinct” sounds. We should not speak “into the air.” Speech should be “easily understood,” he said, so that those present would know “what is being spoken.”—1 Cor. 14:6-9.
In the first century, when Christians ‘spoke in tongues,’ what they said had meaning to people who knew those languages. (Acts 2:4, 8) Today, is it not true that ‘speaking in tongues’ usually involves an ecstatic outburst of unintelligible sounds?
In the first century, the Bible shows, congregations were to limit the ‘speaking in tongues’ to two or three persons who might do that at any given meeting; they were to do it “each in turn,” and if there was no interpreter present they were to keep silent. (1 Cor. 14:27, 28, RS) Is that what is being done today?
2007-07-03 10:22:23 · answer #2 · answered by trustdell1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those that say they speak in tongues need to listen to God and study His word and quit following a man. The word tongues in the original text and language simply means to speak another language other than the one you were born with , so that when you go to another country to preach the word of God those listening may understand what you're saying. If one does not know the language of people they may be preaching to then it is better to take an interpreter. Jesus tells us also to test the spirits because what you may think is His spirit,...may not be. YHVH God The Father is not the author of confusion,...which means Babel
2007-07-03 10:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by rhanjo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I do. But tongues is a language. What language are you speaking in? I was filled with the Holy Spirit the day I got saved. My church does not frown on tongues, but jibber jabbering like a squirel we do.
2007-07-03 10:02:41 · answer #4 · answered by iwant_u2_wantme2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
In any event, it is perfectly capable of scientific test. The claijm of tongues is that people are inspired to speak languages they don't know - in the bible these were other human languages that people around recognised.
These days tongues generally means people talking what is incomprehensible to others around. However, these sounds could be tested to see if they are actually a real language. Languages have sound signatures and characteristics associated with their information content. This allows us to say whether there is sufficient complexity and structure in the sound to convey meaning. I believe that tongues speakers would fail this basic test.
2007-07-03 10:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I did not grow up in this community but I have respect for the practice of speaking in tongues. Also, I am a firm believer in the laying on of hands. That works because I have received it!
2007-07-03 09:59:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I used to go to an Apostolic Pentecostal church. It's funny how people seem to be so afraid of it. I grew up with it, and I've seen so many people get the Holy Ghost. God bless.
2007-07-03 10:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i was raised to believe that speaking in tongues was speaking in the Lord's own language. maybe the language we all spoke before the tower of babel incident. i have come to believe that speaking in tongues show our direct connection with God through our mouth (stated in the Bible as the most dangerous aspect of the human body) shedding the worldly clouding of our minds
2007-07-03 10:04:49 · answer #8 · answered by Mufasa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I do as well. I had to get it on my own because no one I knew at the time believed in it. But God was faithful and I received it in my room during prayer as a college kid almost 20 years ago.
2007-07-03 10:06:30 · answer #9 · answered by M and M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do. My church allows it. And I wouldn't go to a church that didn't because, how can the Holy Spirit flow if they don't?
God Bless You.
2007-07-03 10:04:16 · answer #10 · answered by Brilliant 1forHIM 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋