speaking in tounges to me? Like do you know when you start talking you will be speaking in tounges or does it just happen? I have never meet anyone who does this so thanks for answering.
2007-11-19 04:46:51 · 16 answers · asked by pepsiolic 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Read Acts chapter 2 and you find that tongues is just speaking in another language except when done it is a miracle because it was not learned naturally. When Peter and the brethren stood up and spoke in tongues those present each heard and understood them in their own language. It is not gibberish or a heavenly language.
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2007-11-19 05:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking in tongues is often referred to as a person prayer language. It's personal between that person and God. It does state in the bible that if someone speaks in public in tongues then the Holy Spirit will bring someone else forward who can "translate" what has been said. It's not a literal translation like translating spanish to english but rather an interpretation that the Holy Spirit has given the person. It can be a very instense feeling when the Holy Spirit brings it forth in a person. I have a prayer language but I have never been lead to speak in public in that manner. It usually happens with me when I'm in the midst of an intense struggle in my life and I usually feel very at peace afterwards. It does not mean that the person is possessed by a demon.
2007-11-19 04:57:56 · answer #2 · answered by Teresa M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking in tongues is given by the Holy Spirit. It can be a personal prayer language that you speak when you are praising God. It can also be like in the Testament, after Jesus rose into heaven and the Holy Spirit was sent, people were speaking in languages that were not their own, but the visitors in the land were able understand what they were saying. It just happens when God speaks messages through you.
2007-11-19 04:56:04 · answer #3 · answered by Christine M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where I come from, there are spiritual healers who pray powerfully in strange languages. They claim to have received such prayers from angels or God Himself. There may be spiritual languages, including divine ones. However, I doubt if it is divine when the speaker is not aware of what's happening. I once witnessed a healer throw salt to a medium "speaking in tongues", and an "evil spirit" was "driven out".
2007-11-19 05:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open your mouth and just start babbling like an idiot. Don't put syllables together, or vowels. Just babble.
There. You're speaking in "tongues", according to the modern day Christianity.
If you try real, real hard, you can probably convince yourself, and other idiots, that this babble is because the holy spirit is entering your body. You won't convince anyone with any sense, though.
The tongues spoken in the Bible by the apostles after the death of Jesus, was actually a mix of different languages, such as Latin, Greek, Aramaic, Coptic, and others.
2007-11-19 04:52:44 · answer #5 · answered by Kemp the Mad African 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If it sounds like babble, it's babble.
Act 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
Act 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Act 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Act 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Act 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
2007-11-19 04:50:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NT - Bro. Paul ... Who never knew JC but had lots to say based on his own conceptions. I believe this stemed from the tower of babel nonsense. All would understand the word of god no matter the language... then all things would become clear by speaking in any language. This is totally misunderstood today..
Corinthians
12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another
the interpretation of tongues: 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
2007-11-19 05:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by Tricia R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never felt the need/desire to speak in tongues, but have been around others when they do during ecstatic or fervent prayer. At first, it scared the you-know-what out of me, but I can tell you it is not gibberish. After I listened long enough, it was obvious they were using some kind of language, but none I could identify. I just leave it as being between them and God.
2007-11-19 04:53:52 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Speaking in toungues is letting the Holy Spirit fill you up and take over to the point where you begin speaking in God's language. I have not done it (yet) so I am not sure what it feels like, but from what I have observed it often just happens as a result of opening yourself up to God presence.
2007-11-19 04:51:04 · answer #9 · answered by Steve 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When speaking in Tongues the Bible tells us not to do it in a congragation that may have unbeleivers there because they wouldn't understand that tells me that it is not something that is uncontrollable. Because we are told to CONTROL OURSELVES while doing it. I think it is a choice to speak in tongues an we do it a first out of obedience an in Faith.
2007-11-19 05:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by Lee's Wife 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋