2007-10-19 09:05:06 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
depends on where your tounge IS....
2007-10-19 09:07:07 · answer #1 · answered by ercinc74 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why would a GIFT FROM GOD be interfere? Why do folks get all excited about 'speaking in tongues' but not about any other gifts of the Holy Spirit...like the gift of teaching, exhorting, etc?
Personally, I believe those folks who 'speak in tongues' in churches just want to be part of the gang and not thought of as being not saved. A few years ago, a lady joined our church because her old church told her she wasn't saved. Why? She COULDN'T speak in tongues. If you can't speak in tongues, you don't have the Holy Spirit; if you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're not saved. What a bunch of horse hockey!
Speaking in tongues per Acts 2: Telling someone about the offer of salvation in YOUR language, and someone else hearing it in THEIR language (and neither can speak the others language). When has that ever happened in the past few hundred years? NEVER I can safely say.
If you tell an Arab about the offer of salvation and you only speak English, and the Arab does not speak/understand English, but understands you, then you are speaking in tongues. There is no UNKNOWN language.
If that offends someone, oh well, deal with it.
(signed: a believer since 1964 and a Bible teacher since 1988)
2007-10-19 16:13:26 · answer #2 · answered by AmericanPatriot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking in tongues is nonsense. Free will is a fiction, although a useful one: if I knew every bit of information that you had acquired during your entire lifetime, I could in principle figure out what you would do in any situation. But of course that is not possible, and free will is a convenient model.
2007-10-19 16:15:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is free will? The power of contrary choice? The power to decide any way you like--all things being equal? There is no free will if you mean contrary choice. There is freedom to do that which we most want to do. Extreme example: Someone comes into to my wooded hide-a-way and puts a gun to my head and says come outside with me. I get up and go. Did I go of my own "free will"? Yes. I did what I most wanted to do--live for 90 more seconds. Who knows, maybe the police are right outside in the woods. Maybe he will trip over my yellow Lab (she surely won't attack him) and I'll get away. The only way he gets me outside if I don't want to go is if he shoots me at the table and drags my cold dead body outside or knocks me unconscious and does the same.
2007-10-20 02:13:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not worshiping God, you will not be speaking in tongues. If you begin to speak in tongues most likely, you have given your free will over to God's will.
2007-10-19 16:11:34 · answer #5 · answered by Putta Rat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The biblical deity interferes with free will all the time. Easy example: He hardened Pharaoh's heart so he wouldn't listen to Moses, and then punished him for not listening!
2007-10-19 16:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it only enhances free will, because "When we speak in an unknown tongue, we are not speaking to men, but to God." When I first spoke in tongues, God set me free from all of my addictions. He gave me the strength to choose my destiny. "I thank my God more than you all that I speak in tongues."
2007-10-19 16:12:15 · answer #7 · answered by Apostle Jeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking in tongues ..IS.. an expression of will.... It's an act and a total put-on that people have to learn and practice. Don't be fooled. The people who speak in tongues aren't overwhelmed by anything except their own very ...WILLING.. dishonesty.
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2007-10-19 17:55:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how it would.
People who speak in tongues can choose to speak in tongues or not. It is under their control.
2007-10-19 16:07:50 · answer #9 · answered by Keith 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How so? Speaking in tongues is a gift from the Lord. You have to ask for it to receive it. So how would that interfere with free will?
2007-10-19 16:07:11 · answer #10 · answered by LJ4Bama 4 · 2⤊ 5⤋
No. You can choose to not let the Spirit move. You choose to allow the Holy Spirit to take over.
1Corinthians 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
2007-10-19 16:11:43 · answer #11 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋