The truth about tongues: a DIVISIVE force in Christianity today

modern tongues serve no purpose other than being able to tell people you speak in tongues.

Not true. When a person speaks in tongues, he is speaking to God (1 Cor 14:2), he is speaking the wonderful works of God (Acts 2:11), he is magnifying God (Acts 10:46), he is giving thanks well (1 Cor 14:17), he is edifying himself (1 Cor 14:4), he is praying in the spirit (1 Cor 14:14-15), he is building himself up (Jude 20), he is doing what God wants him to do (1 Cor 14:5), and more.

when people speak in their common language they do the exact same thing. unless you can explain a difference then their only purpose is being able to tell others you speak in tongues.

You're going to have to prove that. Also, speaking in your common language is not speaking in tongues, which Paul explicitly says (by revelation) that he would like all Christians to do.

But if you interpreted Paul as saying that, then isn’t he contradicting himself when he said in 1 cor 12:30, do all speak in tongues?

But if you interpreted Paul as saying that, then isn’t he contradicting himself when he said in 1 cor 12:30, do all speak in tongues?

No because Paul was talking about operating in the church assembly in the gift of tongues and interpretation when he asked that. Not all will speak in tongues, only two or three and only with an interpreter.

But he used the analogy of the body parts to get to that point. Surely an eye will never be a mouth, no matter what?

You're going to have to prove that.

Also, speaking in your common language is not speaking in tongues,

The body assembled together, each operating in their gift to edify the whole.

So my point was that it is strange to restrict 1 Cor 12:30 to only during church gatherings.

An eye will not be a mouth period, no matter which context and circumstance.

Taking just 1 verse, 1 Cor 14:5, to form doctrine is unwise.

Jesus praying in the common language of the day

Matthew 26:39
And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”

speaking in a common language is not speaking in a language? with respect this is a nonsensical statement.

What is your point?



When a person speaks in tongues he does not understand what he is saying ( 1 Cor 14:2, 14).

another problem with tongues, if you go through the bible and examine the divine gifts given by the Father, fire from heaven, staff turning to a snake, remote viewing, walking on water, healing leprosy, casting out demons, etc etc, unless you have divine help from the heavens (gift) you cant do these things, people cant just go walk on water or heal leprosy with a single touch, however tongues as in a mystery language is something anyone can do, all you have to do is start making babble sounds.

modern tongues serve no purpose other than being able to tell people you speak in tongues.

Yes modern tongues serve no other purppse but true tongues that of which is born out of a true of heart of God and from God is born from only the most pure of reasons. Todays tongues is so commonly mimicked abd misused so much so people think tongues whenever talked about testified of or even heard of from other people is fake and sadly I have enbcountered mostly fake tongues.

The state of which tonguies is now thanks to these so called tongue speakers makes it appear fake and irrelevant, had i not grown to believe what I do based solely on him and not on other people or what I percieve to be truth I also would have without a doubt seen tongues as not just fake but complete nonsense.

However there is a true tongues given only to the worthy. I have encountered tongues only once and what it did for me I can never forget. I am sure the enemy would love for us to think tongues is gone but even if I haden;t experienced it myself I base my beliefs not on what I think I know or what others think they know but what I have come to know of him.
The enemy has done a great job of producing fake tongues, so much so people think it is gone, but anyone who knows me on here knows I am an honest person perhaps to honest given I give testimony to what I have seen and experienced to much and the only testimony to my name for tongues was perhaps the most profund and powerful thing I have experienced in him

Yep, this is the elephant in the room.

No one can verify tongues, unlike the other gifts, so that is the clear reason why continualists focus so much on tongues.