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delivryboy:
Orobobobororobobo scante boskoribi roborobo shakaaa scente

NeeKlaus:
The first people that spoke in tongues, were they praying to God or they were trying to preach to MEN and MEN understood them??

Go and read your Bible the correct way and stop glorifying nonsense. You will be surprised that even God does not understand the gibberish that you people spit out in the name of speaking in tongues.

I am a Catholic and I can tell you that we don't agree with you people's method of speaking in tongues.

adellam16:
That's because it doesn't. The tongues they speak are gibberish.

adellam16:
My dear are you a catholic? this here is the truth. those Pentecostals are busy speaking gibberish without knowledge of what speaking in tongues mean. I used to tell one Christian fanatic that those who spoke in tongues are long dead but they refuse to believe that. @ OP do u even know what u are even talking about? Mtchewwwwwwwwwwww

ehimeayeni:
When you speak in tongues it's not for anybody to understand because it's not man like yourself that will answer your prayers. It's God that understands that will answer your prayers. If you want to speak so that people will understand then pray to men

https://www.nairaland.com/3203214/what-does-it-mean-speak#47182013

Dottore:
There are many gifts of the Holy Spirit TO ME tongue is not the most important. Agreed that according to the Bible, speaking in tongues edifies one spirit but surprisingly the Almighty understands all languages both acquired tongues, mother tongues and even the devils tongues. And there's no evidence anywhere in the Bible that prayers are better answered when prayed in unknown tongues.
I'd rather go for the gifts I consider more evidently useful to me and beneficial to people around me like spiritual power, knowledge and prophecy.
Besides the tongue I considered exceptionally real gift is as recorded in Acts chapter 1 when the Holy Ghist fell on the apostles, it gave them power to speak in other languages they never learnt before so they could be able to preach to foreigners in the later own language thus making the spread of the gospel easier and more interesting.
I doubt if any christian has such power now. Imagine you speaking im Arabic in the midst of Arabs so u can communicate better in evangelism. That is what I consider spiritual gift not some verbose cacophony

*modified*

Please read Acts 2: 4-12 and 1Corinthians:14 for more understanding and guidance.

DrGraveYardz:
But the speaking in tongues we get to see today is nothing but a repetition of the same sounds nobody understands. Speaking in tongues should be of languages that other people can understand or relate to. Every Tom, Dick and Harry utter unreasonable sounds are say they are speaking in tongues.

otr1:
Read Acts 2:1-11 and you will realize that the biblical speaking in tongues is the gift of suddenly speaking fluently in a different language that people can understand, not gibberish that even the speakers don't understand as we have today.

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

But others jeered at the speakers, saying, “They are drunk on new wine!”

Nigeriadondie:
Tongues speaking was a gift of d holy spirit which enabled early christians back then to preach in a language(tongue) other than their own.

Before the birth of christianity, God had a covenant relationship with man but that was to change as the old Law was to be replaced with the new law enacted by d blood of Jesus and henwas no longer dealing with humans on d basis of the old law but thru d newly formed christian congregation after Christ's death and ressurection. To convince many that the congregation had His backing, he uses gifts of d spirit such as tongues- 1 Corinthians 14:22.

The gift of speaking served another purpose. During the time of Jesus there was no printing and broadcasting to relay messages to a mass audience as we ve now. Also, there was d issue of language barrier which wud hamper d spread of d gospel of God's will and purpose. To overcome these challenges, tongues speaking filled that need.

Please open ur Bible to read Acts 2:1-11 but with emphasis on verses 6-11 where you wud observe that the tongues spoken where in d real sense of it real languages that were understood by other people who spoke the language not some senseless and meaningless words spoken by ALL tongues speaking pentecostal churches. That way, people cud hear the message of God in their own native language. If u read Acts2:41 u would see that d result of tongues speaking was the 3,000 converts who would now carry witj them to whereever they went the message of goodnews or gospel fulfilling what Christ said in Acts1:8 and what Paul said in Colossians 1:23.

Again, lets examine tongue speaking in the time of early christians and the ones of our time which for me is mere rambling of meaningless words which is tantamount to noise which I recall in my High school class is an unpleasant noise.
Read 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 and 27-31 with emphasis on verse 30.
Read also 1 Corinthians 14:5-33,40 but lay emphasis on 5,11,12,13,19,26-28,31,33,40.
You would realise that when tongues are spoken then it must be interpreted. If no interpretation the tongue speaker has achieved nothing.
Also in verse 31, people cant speak in tongues simultaneously (at the same time) it would make d place rowdy/noisy/disorderly/chaotic as the gathering of barbarians. And the God true christians worship is a God or order as verse 33 shows and so christians must worship God in an orderly manner as verse 40 shows. Not the simultaneous noise making of all in the pentecostal churches we see today, people rambling making noise uttering words they nor their listeners understand and as such cannot interpret what the blabbed which is required.

Now in our time, we ve a well developed printing and broadcasting technology that has overcome the language barrier. The spread of d goodnews is no longer impeded by language barrier as the Bible is now printed in all the living languages spoken today. We even have d Braille for the blind and some bibles have sign language for d deaf. Beinh an ardent admirer of Jehovah's Witnesses the have their publications in about 800 languanges and have a mobile application called "JW LIBRARY" in about 800 languages. If u doubt me u can download it and u wud be amazed at its unique features. Even their website www.jw.org is in many languages as well so making tongues speaking obsolete.
Also , they ve many missionaries who ve taken up the challenge of leaening bew languages so they could reach people who speak that language with d gospel.

As Paul said in 1Corinthians 13:1-13, the gifts of speaking in tongues and other gifts of d holy spirit would pass away with time. This is because as d christian congregation was still in its baby or infant stage, extraordinary gifts of the spirit was needed to convince people of God's approval of the christian congregation but as time went by and it grew beyond the babe stage, the traits of babes has to be put way and as such these gifts are no longer required. They ve outlived their purpose.

Hence, we should not be arried away with all these fake pentecostal churches. Look at what d Bible says Matthew 7:21-23, 2Thessolonians 2:8-10

Souljeezy:
Trash!!!
de nonsense people do today in de name of speaking in tongues..
repeatedly saying same thing every tym dey pray..
i can even recite wat my neighbor calls "speaking in tongue" wen she prays at night..

A friend of mine was invited to Christ embassy for d first tym.they preached.He "repented".
In follow-up fellowship he had wit em, they were forcing him nd other newcomers to speak in tongues to prove they were really born-again..
As others started sayin trash, he had to come up wit something to say so as nt to look strange or possessed..he started calling his granddad's name repeatedly.


speaking in tongues is a gift,the ability to speak other languages when truly filled with the holy spirit..so is interpretation of what is being said...
its not a must dat EVERY believer should speak in tongues.

adellam16:
araba shinta mmamma skuria bobrisky skiboroba.

Souljeezy:
ogaa...
speaking in tongues is speaking in other language other than urs...
wat people do today is speak gibberish..speaking in teeth is wat we hear dis days��

For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.

Nigeriadondie:
I am not Catholic but a Jehovah's Witness. I study the Bible with them and I ve learnt a lot from them.
I encourage u to study with them, u will learn far more than what those who go to Theology do

adellam16:
u study the bible with who?

Zeze06:


Anytime I see people speaking in tongues I think they are crazy I swear!

It makes no meaning to me...

jaz:
May God continue to bless your wisdom and knowledge. Great insight unlike the lies being told by many so called Christians who quote the scriptures in parts and purposely mislead the church

0b100100111:

It's outright madness and don't glorify it with "Social"

itsloba:
God bless you....
I hope God will open their hearts

Friedyokes:
perfect ...you gave your points and you backed it up with proofs... Just perfect

uvalued:
v6 states this



contrast it with this v13



it means that yes some heard but not all heard but said they were drunk becauseto such they spoke gibberish..besides do you notice thatat the same time all people present heard their language... not that they finish one language then stop then start the next language ..no it was simultenously done

Nigeriadondie:
U read my comments well

talebearer123:
IT ALSO KEEPS SATAN AND ITS DEMONS IN THE DARK of what we are asking for from God so to go and conner it is imposible

adellam16:
Meaning? Don't even bother replying.

adellam16:
Meaning? Don't even bother replying.

Nigeriadondie:
Ok ma. U seem to ve issues with them I guess. I could be wrong but that is my assumption.

adellam16:
naaaaaaa I don't . I gat them as friends and neighbors. your response actually got me confused. yes u said u were not catholic but a Jehovah's witness, but u went on to say you study with them and all so dat got me confused, I dint know if u were referring to Jehovah's witnesses or Catholics as the people u study with. That's why I asked whom.

Skillz92:
https://i0.wp.com/praisebars.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/speaking-in-tongues.jpg?fit=960%2C540

And this Signs shall follow them that believe ….. They shall speak in Tongues.(mark 16:17).

The issue of speaking in tongues in Christendom has for some years now been an issue of debate. Some people believe that every believer must not speak in tongues backing their statement with the fact that speaking in tongues is the only evidence or proof of the Holygost. Some other group of believers on the other hand on the other hand maintained that speaking in tongue is the Evidence of the presence of the Holygost.

In this Article, I am not going to argue whether it is a must for every believer or not, I will be giving you ten reasons why every believer should speak in tongues.

1 Tongues is the initial sign.

“And they were all filled with the Holygost and began to speak with other Tongues as the spirit gave them utterance” Acts 2:4

The word of God clearly explained that the Disciples of Christ spoke in tongues immediately the holygost came on them while they were praying in Jerusalem.



2 Tongues for spiritual Edification

“He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifies himself” 1 cor 14:4

The term edification means building up, especially in a moral , emotional or spiritual sense. So when we speak in tongues we build up our selves spiritually. Paul explained that a man speaking in other tongues speaks not unto men but unto God.

“For one who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands because in the holygost he utters secret truths and hidden things not obvious to the understanding.” 1 cor 14:2

Anybody who speaks in tongues charges himself before God. ie he builds ups and strengthens himself.


3 Tongues remind us of the spirit’s indwelling presence

“And I will ask the father and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the holy spirit who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him, but you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you”. John 14:15-16

Notice that jesus said that he lives with you now and later will be in you and after the death of jesus the holygost. It means that the Holy Spirit then dwelled in them. We all know what happened when the holygost filled the disciples in Jerusalem. Speaking in tongues reminds us of the spirit’s indwelling presence.



4 praying in tongues is praying in line with God’s perfect Will.

“Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which words cannot be uttered.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans 8:26-27 kjv

The bible made it clear here that the holygost maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. So praying in tongues helps us pray in line with the will of God.


5 praying in tongues stimulates faith.

“but you dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holyspirit” jude 20

If the holy spirit gives us the utterance when we speak in tongues, when we say a word, we don’t know what the next word will be, so we need to Trust God to bring it and that is faith. Praying in tongues helps us to strengthen our faith in God.

6 speaking in tongues is a means of keeping free from worldly contamination.

“If anyone speaks in a tongue , two or at most three should speak, one at a time, and someone should interpret. If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God.” I cor 14:27-28

Paul said when you speak in tongues in the church and there is no interpreter then you should speak to yourself. Therefore we can speak to ourselves in tongues and it won’t disturb anybody. This helps us to keep free from worldly contamination. For example, when you are in the midst of people who are discussing things which can contaminate our spirit and you don’t want to be part of it, speak to yourself in tongues by that it helps you to stay free from the conversation.



7 praying in tongues enable us to pray for the unknown

The Holy Spirit who knows everything can pray through for things which our natural mind knows nothing about. The spirit intercedes for us for we know not what to pray for as we ought. (Romans 8: 26).

Praying in the spirit provides a way for things to be prayed for that we wouldn’t know anything about in the natural.



8 praying in tongues gives spiritual refreshing.

“With foreign lips and strange tongues, God will speak to this people, to whom he said, this is the resting place, let the weary rest” Isaiah 28:11-12.

The scripture above speaks of rest and refreshing which is in the talking in other tongues. These things are vital for our spirits and we can take it every day.



9 Tongues for giving thanks.

Praying in tongues provides the most perfect way to pray way to pray and give thanks, for the bible said that when we pray in tongues that we give thanks very well. (1 cor 14:15-17)

10 speaking in tongues brings the tongue under subjection.

Yielding the tongue to the Holy Spirit to speak with other tongues is a giant step towards fully yielding all of our members to God. For if we can yield this most unruly member, we can yield any member.

SOURCE : http://praisebars.com/10-reasons-why-every-believer-must-speak-in-tongues/

PrecisionFx:
U mean saying things neither u, ur family, ur friends, it church members, ur pastors can't understand its meaning or comprehend