Have you ever had someone, a foreign visitor for example, recognise someone speaking in tongues as their own language and was able to understand what they were saying?
2007-12-06 10:51:47 · 22 answers · asked by chocoboryo 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hi, Chocobar:
A Pentecostal Pastor named James Bershires wrote a book entitled Praise the Lord. Therein He tells of his departure from those sects after, on two occasions, foreigners re-translated what they heard in their own language. One was saying "My name is Satan and I am your Lord and Master", and the other was not praising God, but cursing Him.
I personally know evangelists who were speaking English, and learned that some in the group understood in their own language and did not need a translator. Of course, they were baptized and received the truth, you see, Paul tells us "tongues are for unbelievers."
In Acts 2, where the toungues fell, there was about 15 language groups that heard it in their own language--an obvious miracle that convinced UNBELIEVERS.
But that "gift" has become a sign for "believers"--such little faith. And the second century church in Galatia was reported to be speaking GIBBERISH, and were disfellowshipped.
More on this when you break the Bible code at http://abiblecode.tripod.com
Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua
2007-12-06 11:03:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My brother was at a church service one night and during a worship song, he was praying quietly in tongues. The lady in front of him spun around in shock, and asked him how he knew that about her family! He had never met her before, and did not know anything about the situation that she "heard" him praying so clearly about.
My brother and that lady both speak only English and Spanish. My brother did not understand the words he was speaking, but she understood it completely.
When speaking in tongues, the person speaking isn't actually talking in a foreign language - it is instead what the holy spirit makes it sound like to the person who is supposed to hear the message that matters.
You could be in an international marketplace, the Lord could put a message in your mouth, and one person within earshot hear it in Spanish, another hear it in German, and another hear it in Arabic - all at once.
2007-12-06 19:09:12 · answer #2 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Speaking in tongues is to be in like your example to speak to someone who can interpret the language. it needs to be said that tongues is a spiritual gift some will have it some will not. God can bestow it on anyone at anytime but it is to be used. I saw one church that taught tongues!need i say more!
2007-12-06 19:04:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there have been many scientific studies of speaking in tongues. all have found that the phonemic range of the 'tongue' spoken was always identical with the phonemic range of the speaker's native language. (the phonemic range of an utterance is a sort of linguistic fingerprint).
people who speak english when they speak in tongues are still speaking english (english gibberish). people who speak portuguese speak portuguese gibberish when they speak in tongues; so do people who speak czech.
creationists want their idiocy taught in public schools, but nobody has ever dared suggesting teaching modern languages by the pentecostal method.
do you suppose that there might be a reason for this?
2007-12-06 19:02:38 · answer #4 · answered by synopsis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
there are two different uses of tongues.
one is public for the edification of the church. This usually precedes the interpretation for the church to understand.
the other is another earthly language that the speaker does not know but another would recognize. Since the listener understands, this would not need interpretation.
I, personally, have not heard anything like this, coming in America and English being primary language. I know no other language fluently to determine this.
2007-12-06 18:56:58 · answer #5 · answered by n9wff 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I will give you a "hint" about this "speaking in tongues" which will discern the idiots from amongst reality.
How many times do you find the word "language" in the Bible? You DON'T, except in Chapter 2 of Acts (verse 6). Read this Chapter. That is what Paul refers to when he uses the word "tongues." Replace it with "language" and you will discern the TRUTH. Any "wise" person who is not a fanatic knows that many words get mistranslated and this is one of them. Since Paul went out amongst many of different cultures, of course, they SPOKE different "tongues" OR "languages." Of those sects of Christians who have misinterpreted that it is a "secret" way to speak to God are so full of self-induced vanity that they actually believe God would listen to their ignorant behaviors. The Lord in heaven is unbiased and for ALL humanity and is not about to indulge in the vain pursuits mankind pursues to try to OWN him. Of such are those who live in the delusions that God is about to separate one person from another in his kingdom.
2007-12-06 19:20:45 · answer #6 · answered by Theban 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize how ludicrous that is, not to mention how unlikely it would be for someone spitting gibberish to somehow randomly stumble onto an intelligible sentence in another language, with correct pronunciation, syntax, and inflection? That's what the real Pentecost was supposed to have been, not nonsense being screamed by people rolling around on the floor and working themselves into a frenzy.
When you find a native-English speaker who is not bilingual and somehow is suddenly able to speak perfectly and intelligibly in Urdu, Mongolian, Ainu, Swahili, Romanian, or Icelandic after a good roll on the floor at church, by all means--let us know.
You might as well throw a bucket of refrigerator magnet numbers on the floor and suddenly expect them to fall into a perfect and sensible calculus equation or something. You're looking at the same chances, more or less.
2007-12-06 18:58:29 · answer #7 · answered by ಠ__ಠ 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
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Tongues today is different from those in Acts 2 and 1 Cor.
Tongues today is demonism re-packaged. Come and see here in the East, the medium in Hindu and Chinese temples.... Charismatic and the mediums make the same noises!!!
Balaam's A S S had spoken
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2007-12-06 23:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Apostle Paul (The best christian ever born in this world) Said:
"But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue"
1 Corinthians 14:19.
2007-12-06 18:56:12 · answer #9 · answered by John 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Tongue Speaking of today is not the tongue speaking of the Bible.
Spoke a known language. Acts 2:8
Today don't even claim to use known languages.
Were understood. Acts 2:6; I Cor. 14:19
Don't claim to understand today.
Were edified. I Cor. 14:26
No such claim today.
Confirmed the word. Acts 10:46;Heb. 2:3-4
Today, they don't accept confirmed word today. Add to and deny it.
Spoke by turn. I Cor. 14:27
All speak together today in Mass confusion.
No interpreter? - Silence. I Cor. 14:28
Don't want to be interpreted today.
Sign to unbelievers. I Cor. 14:22
Used today for excitement.
For use of edifying I Cor. 14:26
Show, entertain.
Spirit subject to speaker. I Cor. 14:26-31
Today - "Don't stop me, I'm getting a revelation.
Spoke to profit the church I Cor. 14:6
No profit today.
Prayed for interpretation. I Cor. 14:13
Today - pray for tongue speaking.
Spoke to instruct. I Cor.14:13
Revel in confusion - no instruction.
Believed Gospel. Mark 16:16
Deny gospel because getting new revelation.
Spoke to benefit hearers. I Cor. 14:9
No so today. Benefit in glory of speaker.
Interpret so unlearned understand.; 1 Cor. 14:16
Interpretation not done today.
No accusation of madness. I Cor. 14:23
Today confusion rampant.
No confusion allowed. I Cor. 14:33
Today, all in confusion.
Women kept silence. I Cor. 14:34
All speak today. In regulating usage of gifts, women had not abilities.
Holy Spirit Baptism audible. No mistake in knowing H. S. came upon them. Acts 2:2
None will say so today.
Holy Spirit baptism visible. Not mistaken in seeing. Acts 2:3
None will say so today.
Holy Spirit baptism heard. No mistake in hearing. Acts 2:4
No so today.
2007-12-06 19:04:58 · answer #10 · answered by Scorpian S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋