Paul so clearly states there is no edification unless the mind understands what is being said.
So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. 1 Cor 14:9
It is not about the natural/carnal mind, since many born again believers that are born of the spirit know that scripture does not support a private prayer language. There is not one instance where angels appeared to men and they spoke anything but a known language.
My natural mind may be in a fallen state but it does not mean I suspend being rational and discerning!
The gift of language is in and of itself an amazing thing, a God given gift to humans, and that you would use something else that your mind cannot understand is more of the flesh (psychological or emotional) than any believer who uses the words that they know and understand because that believer is not looking for signs and wonders.
So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. 1 Cor 14:9
It is not about the natural/carnal mind, since many born again believers that are born of the spirit know that scripture does not support a private prayer language. There is not one instance where angels appeared to men and they spoke anything but a known language.
My natural mind may be in a fallen state but it does not mean I suspend being rational and discerning!
The gift of language is in and of itself an amazing thing, a God given gift to humans, and that you would use something else that your mind cannot understand is more of the flesh (psychological or emotional) than any believer who uses the words that they know and understand because that believer is not looking for signs and wonders.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays,but my mind is unfruitful.
Regardless of your understanding in mind, your spirit is still praying. So edification is still taking place, not of others but self.
16 Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer,[d] say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying?17 You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.
Notice "you are giving thanks well enough." VVhether you understand your tongues or not, your spirit is still giving praises to God. Is worship edifying? Is praise edifying? Of course.