Believing is a unseen work . Only God can see into a person heart and confirm he is a follower of prophecy as sons of God led by a unseen Spirit . I think you keep forgetting the sign that God would mock those came when he brought prophecy in Acts when the Holy Spirit interpreted his prophecy in the language of many nation and no longer Hebrew alone.
In Acts 2, there were those present who actually heard the disciples
speaking in other languages.
If you are looking for a sign that you believe God just believe.
As other posters pointed out, this is a straw man argument.
I've asked you this kind of stuff before. I think you just skip over it.
Are you implying that the Corinthians who spoke in tongues only spoke in tongues because they were looking for a sign that they believed God? Paul said he thanked God, "I speak with tongues more than ye all.'
So let me ask you, do you think Paul was looking for a sign that he just believed God? He did speak in tongues, so is your accusation leveled at him?
I have never heard a preacher preach that you should speak in tongues so that you can know that you believe God. You seem very confused about what other people believe or don't believe and about how to communicate this in your message.
1 Corinthians 14 King James Version (KJV) 21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, "not to them that believe", but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
How about if we stay focused on the law above? What it confirms as a purpose and who it points to? And then we can move on and discuss why tongues "God speaking in other languages other than Hebrew alone" could only be possible if he was still adding new prophecy.
You seem very confused about what you believe. In one post, you write about speaking in tongues as something possible to do by studying. Here, you seem to think it can only be done if God were 'still adding new prophecy.' If you do not know what you believe, it is hard for us to comment on it. Maybe that explains why your posts seem so confused and confusing.
I believe I Corinthians 14:21. But I interpret it to
fit Paul's argument in the passage. What you seem to be doing is interpreting it in a way that contradicts the rest of the passage.
In I Corinthians, we see in chapter 12 that 'divers tongues' and 'interpretation of tongues' are real, legitimate gifts and manifestations of the Spirit. Paul does not condemn those who exercise these gifts as unbelieving. In I Corinthians 14, we see that Paul wanted that all his readers would speak in tongues-- an activity that edifies oneself-- but rather that they would all prophesy, an activity that edifies the church. He also encourages that a tongue be interpreted in church to edify the body. My interpretation of verse 21 is
consistent with these facts. When I point these things out to you, you just ignore them, and continue with your obviously wrong misinterpretations of what Isaiah means in the passage.
A believer having, exercising, believing in, or desiring a spiritual gift is not a basis for condemning him as having a lack of faith. This is an area where you seem really confused and think you have arrived at a spiritual understanding. Jesus did signs. Signs are not bad.
1. Some people hear the word without seeing signs and believe.
2. Some people see signs and respond in faith.
3. Some of those people saw signs but would have responded in faith without the signs.
4. Some people would reject the word whether they saw signs or not.
Jesus rebuked a crowd He had fed miraculously who were demanding a sign and said 'A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.' But that does not mean that all who seek signs are wicked and adulterous. The disciples asked for the sign of His coming in Matthew 24, and He did not rebuke them.
Let us consider some of the groups of people who believed after seeing Jesus, the apostles, or other disciples do something supernatural.
-- Nathaniel believed after Jesus said He saw Him under a fig tree. Nathaniel was probably shocked that Jesus knew he'd been under a fig tree when Philip called him.
-- Peter followed Jesus after seeing a miracle of his nets being filled.
-- The woman at the well believed after Jesus told her about her five husbands.
-- Thomas believed in the resurrection after seeing the risen Lord.
-- Samaritans believed after Philip performed signs among them.
-- Paul believed after encountering a heavenly vision of Christ in which he was blinded.
-- Elymas believed after seeing Saul/Paul declare that Elymas would be blind, and it happened.
Jesus said, "Except ye see signs and wonders, ye shall not believe', before healing someone. So signs can play a role in bringing some men to faith. But others reject the word even after seeing signs.
I would be interested in knowing if men are receiving new prophecy. what are the words of new prophecy mean as new knowledge and when will it be added to cannon in a new book. Seeing Revelation is the last chapter up till now. Perhaps the new chapter or book could be called "Tongues" ?
It seems like you learn something, then unlearn it quickly. Why is this? Several pages back, you agreed with me that not all revelation from God has to be put in the Bible. The prophecies of Saul or the prophets from Shiloh who met him, or the prophecies of the prophets hid in a cave from Jezebel are not in the Bible.
Now you are back to this unbiblical idea that revelations have to be added to the book of Revelation.
Also, back then, they used scrolls. The early part of the chapter calls the book of Revelation, or the scroll of Revelation, a 'scroll' or book. And the end, there is a warning against adding to the scroll/book. Nowadays, we bind all these books together in one codex-- what we now call a book. But that's now what the Scroll of Revelation actually says. You are eisegeting modern technology back into the Bible and reinterpreting the passage to refer to adding to the whole Bible.
But again, no one adds a prophecy to the Bible unless they add it to the Bible. Have you ever in your life seen someone try to add a prophecy or interpretation of tongues to the book of Revelation?