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Do People Who Speak In Tongues Fake It Or Understand It?


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I have always been spiritual than religious, i believe God is an entity who cannot be reached through a single source, he’s like a firm rooted tree with sprouted branches. We all say we worship same God then why do we feel our religion is the only and direct source to him?

Recently my neighbor came to preach to me, he’s been on my neck ever since i told him i wasn’t religious and wouldn’t attend his church. The day he came to preach we argued and argued, i told him God cannot be worshiped through a single source, if you invite me to a mosque i will attend, if you invite me to an Osun festival i will attend i don’t have to attend a church because i am seeking God.

I told him God gave us freewill to think, he gave us scientists and doctors and plastic surgeons, he gave us pharmacists and medicines, he wanted us to know there was more to him thats why we discovered other universes, thats why we can clone a human thats why we ca do IVF, thats why we can do inter sex change and etc.

I reminded him that Christians see Muslims as unbelievers and Muslims see Christians as infidels, none of them are right of course but what do they know. He told me to repent that hell is real, i told him i have seen hell, i have seen the rapture more times than i can count, i told him not to believe everything he read in the bible as it was written by human beings like us, he got up looked at me and said “Na God hand u de” lol.
Now back to my question, i get fascinated when people speak in tongue, in some churches if you dont speak in tongues u never belong, i had a flatmate in my hundred level then who stays with her boyfriend, after dem nack finish you go hear her then speak in tongue lol.

During the halleluyah challenge, i was praying, crying, in spirit, whenever i pray to God i cry, because i feel his awesomeness through me, even when im singing praises, during this time i was praying i found myself speaking a language i do not understand, i was scared so i stopped lest i blasphemed, i continued praying and it started again, but i couldnt understand what i was saying so i stopped again.

Dear christians, when you speak in tongues do you understand what you’re talking about? i thought some people were gifted with interpreting this speaking in tongues while others spake it? how come we have less interpreters and more speakers?

SOURCE: TALK2BELLA

dguyindcorner:


If you're a good Bible student, you will have found more than 3 verses in my comment.

DipoAy:
This is actually one topic that I have always wanted closure on but nobody has been able to provide for me.. When I am in church and I happen to be beside someone that 'speaks in tongues' it makes me feel inferior. Like I am a sinner. I am a cherubim and seraphim member. In my church, worship must have gone deep before people start going into trance, Buh when I am in my fellowship in school, just a simple let close ours and ask God for ....... I would have started hearing all manners of tongues. And worship hasn't even started yet. I am not attacking anything or anybody. Just saying what has been on my mind. Whoever is more knowledgeable should please provide better answers

akinszz:
scam

1Sharon:


Lol..Ok is that Yoruba? Is it another Lagos slang?

Rednaxelot:
Sakamaje!
None of them understands that gibberish!

1Sharon:
What does saka maje mean?

akinszz:
scam

1Sharon:
Lol..Ok is that Yoruba? Is it another Lagos slang?

akinszz:
not Yoruba word Just slang

queenitee:

Oh okay

CAPSLOCKED:


YOU SPELL "YOU" AS "YHU" AND EXPECT ME TO LISTEN TO YOU? WHAT ARE YOU, 15?
THIS IS NOT YOUR CIRCLE OF FACEBOOK YIPPEE BOYS YOUNG MAN DON'T TALK TO ME ANY FURTHER.

erenax:
Skiborobo skibo skeeborobbo skibo. Yeba

QnVee:
I read the Scriptures like most everyone. I believe in speaking in tongues through the Holy Spirit. Why? Because it happened to me years ago and have not happened since. I was at a service and we were praisng God. I stood there thanking him for bringing me through my trials. While praising I felt the peacefulness of the holy spirit and my tongue took off on its own with no self control as it spoke in an unfamiliar language. I knew what I was saying and conveying to God but I had no control as my tongue seemed to take off in another language. I was not faking. After the service while riding home my friends said I was speaking in tongues during the praise service. I knew it but wasn't sure whether or not they were able to hear it so I had planned to be quiet about it. I didn't understand why it happened at the time. That was over 30 years ago and although I have felt the holy spirit moving I have never spoken in tongues again. Yes I feel some people fake it in an effort to bolster their "holiness", popularity, and offerings. Some have crept in uawares. Speaking in tongues when one is filled with the holy spirit, is real. If one is truly living in the spirit and not fleshly it's easy to recognize people who are faking it. God gives us the spirit and gift of discernment. We must remember God is a spirit and the only way we can serve him is in spirit and truth.

Rednaxelot:
Sakamaje!

None of them understands that gibberish!

SmithRussell:
Interesting. . I do believe in tongues. . But whether it's being faked or not, I can't tell. .

MODIFIED:

Speaking in unknown tongues is real; it's not possible to tell if a person is faking it since no one understands it, but God. .

That being said, I think the real question here should be "Do People Who Speak in Tongues Do It According To The Bible's Teaching?" Most of the times, the answer is 'NO'...

I attended a church and at a point, we were instructed to pray in the Holy Ghost; I've also seen preachers who argue that speaking in tongues is a sign to show that yhu've received the Spirit, therefore, it is a must to speak in tongues..

What does the Bible actually say about speaking in tongues in the church?

In Corinthians, Apostle Paul said that we should desire more the gift of prophecy (which could be likened to speaking in tongues of men), than the gift of unknown tongues. . Because the gift of prophecy edifies the people who are listening (the whole church) but the gift of tongues edifies only the person saying it (as people won't know when to say amen)..
He said that he speaks in tongues more than the rest of the members, but in the church, he would rather say five words of understanding that a thousand in unknown tongue. .
He also said that there must be an interpreter if ever anyone is being led to speak in unknown tongues so that the crowd will understand what the person is saying. .

He went further to instruct that only ONE person should speak in unknown tongue at a time (as unbelievers might think they are mad if everyone starts saying what they don't understand with no one to interpret)...

But sadly, some Pentecostals don't like the chapter as it condemns women speaking in church. .

P.S. I dedicate my first FTC since 2013 to Osayuwa P, happy birthday love. . And also to my 400L CPE brethren

MJBOLT:

i know a church where the members even sing in tongues.fake rubbish

ElsonMorali:
It is always faked. They believe that when you speak in tongues (read gibberish) that you are advancing spiritually.

That's utterly laughable.

The disciples of Christ according to the bible spoke in tongues. I.e, they spoke their own language and others who didn't understand Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke when he was on earth) heard them in their own different tongues.

CAPSLOCKED:


YOU CAN'T TELL IF IT'S REAL OR FAKE, BUT YET, "YOU BELIEVE"??
WHAT DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE?



WHY THE MEN WHO SPOKE IN TONGUES IN THE BIBLE SPOKE DIFFERENT "TONGUES" UNDERSTOOD BY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, WHILE TODAY, THE EXCUSE FOR PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTANDING YOUR GIBBERISH SPEAKING IN TONGUE IS THAT ONLY GOD UNDERSTANDS IT? HAHAHA..

groovie:


Find this book: Tongues beyond the upper room, by Kenneth hagin. You will receive the truth of tongues

QnVee:
... I knew what I was saying and conveying to God but I had no control as my tongue seemed to take off in another language. I was not faking.

Beey:
Tongues of men are the earthly languages.

Beey:
I beg to differ.The teachings of Paul have been used to silence women for a long time.When a scripture is written, There’s always a background story.The churches that the Apostle Paul wrote to, their women had become unruly. That’s why they were advised to be silent in church.Due to the rivalry, they were advised to not only pay attention to outward dressing of plaiting hair & wearing jewelry but, rather develop a peaceful character.it Was to a specific people at a specific time.I don’t believe that it was for all women.If you read Joel , there the Lord talks of pouring out His spirit on all flesh.To me it means both mean & women.I refuse to be silenced by doctrines of men.Had Jesus himself said women should not talk about him, would have been different .Jesus said after divorce one shouldn’t remarry, I believe that.But the teachings of Paul will not silence me.I refuse to be silenced especially because I know that scripture wasn’t for all women.

SmithRussell:
This is the problem. . . The part where he addressed speaking of tongues in the Corinthian church was for everybody but where he condemned women speaking was for only the Corinthian church. . And where in the scripture did yhu get that 'unruly' story; and even if so , aren't church women unruly these days??

And about the Joel's prophecy, having the Spirit is the first thing in being born again. . Not being able to teach in a church doesn't mean yhu can't be a missionary, no!

And because an instruction doesn't go well with yhu it becomes 'Doctrine of Men'?? I pray God forgives yhu - A typical Pentecostal

ElsonMorali:


OK, so if this is so then I have two questions.

First, how come the disciples spoke in tongues and the others heard them in their own languages.

Second, why then did the Bible say there must be someone to interpret otherwise it doesn't edify anybody?