What does "speaking in tongues" mean?
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speaking in tongues is other languages.In the new testment it talked of speaking in tongues.This was by people who didn`t know a strange language but spoke in someone elses language so they could understand.There is also the babizm-of the Holy Ghost,this is stamering lips.I`ve heard stamering lips when someone gets babtized with the Holy ghost.i`ve also seen people sing in atongue that surely went right to God.
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Yes !? Why do you ask ? Have you ? Need more info? Am a pastors wife-might be able to help you! Yes dude you have to be saved to speak in tongues! Have the Holy Spirit to do  that - as the spirit gives the utterance ! you are not saved you can not speak in this way to God ! Only a Holy person can do this =by the leading of the holy spirit! You can go to heaven not all Christians speak in tongues! Not right or wrong thing-YOu will go to Hell if you are not saved Read Romans 10 . What kind of church taught you that. YOu were not going to hell for that dear ! God loves you , Gave his only son that you could be saved! YOU speak in a tongue to talk to GOd-then the devil cant understand what you are saying! When you grow in Christ-the holy spirit leads you to pray, sing in tongues-As the spirit leads you you cant just speak like this dear ! DO you understand? Please get this -  you will not go to hell if you cant speak in tongues! If you want that read  the bible-pray tell God That.
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Forget about "Baptists" how about what the Bible has to say?\nThe gift of tongues was to be a sign to the JEWS. The Bible also says that tongues shall CEASE (1Cor. 13:8) \nWant to be Spirit filled AND scriptural? Go to Galatians chapter 5 and read up on the fruit of the Spirit....NOWHERE does it mention speaking in tongues is a sign of being Spirit filled! \nThe more you yield yourself to God, the more evident He will be in your life. \nAlso, the Spirit will ALWAYS Glorify the SON, and in churches that speak in so-called tongues, ALL the attention and glory is given to the Spirit. That's NOT scriptural!
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are you speaking in tongues?
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I'm approaching this question purely from a biblical perspective. If you'd like something more from a point of view and less scriptural just let me know.\n\nI would point you to 1 Corinthians 12 which gives the apostle Paul's take on the gifts of the Spirit, including speaking in tongues.\n\nHe starts off in verse 1 saying to the "brethren" that he doesn't want them to be ignorant on the matter.  Well, that's good, because apparently the folks at Corinth were very confused about the subject.  \n\nPaul in verse 7 tries to make it clear that every manifestation of the Spirit is "for the profit of all".  Then he gives a rundown of all of the gifts.  \n\nBy the time we get to 1 Corinthians 13, he's made it clear that he thinks that love is the most important gift.  In verse 1, he mentions something interesting though.  He says, "Though I speak with the tongues of men AND of angels..."  So, he draws a distinction between the two. There is an earthly language and there is a heavenly language.  \n\nNow if you take into account the first time we read about the gift of tongues in use, we'd have to go to the book of Acts (Acts 2:1-12) for the incident that occurred at Pentecost. Peter was preaching and though many people spoke different languages, each heard his sermon in his or her own "tongue." That's a practical use of the gift.  However, this was far from what was happening at the church in Corinth. No one could understand what anyone who was speaking in tongues was saying!  \n\nThis is why Paul says in 1 Corinthian 14:2: For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speakth not unto men, but unto God: for no man UNDERSTANDETH him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.\n\nBut he also warns in verses 4 and 6-11, that if you do this you are only edifying yourself. He would rather that you prophesy or teach so that everyone can be edified.  Further, he says that if he was to come speaking to them in other languages, what would it profit them, unless they understood what is being said?\n\nIn conclusion I give you Paul's advice. Earnestly desire the BEST gifts. Those that build others up.  It does appear that the phenomenon of speaking in tongues, at least from a biblical perspective did indeed have a place in the early church, but even then the apostle to the gentiles downplayed it's importance and urged rather that we speak so that we can be understood for the edification of all. This was because Corinth, as many churches still do today, overemphasized and singled out this one manifestation of the Spirit and left the other gifts underutilized.
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My praying in tongues helps the HOLY SPIRIT help me to understand the Bible. Deep calleth out to Deep.
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It was the day of Pentecost 33 C.E. Weeks earlier, Jews and proselytes from at least 15 regions of the far-flung Roman Empire and beyond had packed Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. On that day, thousands of them heard—not in confusion, as those at ancient Babel did, but with understanding—ordinary people filled with holy spirit proclaim the good news in numerous languages spoken in the empire. \n\nJesus’ disciples could probably speak common Greek, the popular language of the day. They also used Hebrew, the language spoken at the temple. However, on that Pentecost day, they “astonished” their diverse audience by speaking in the native languages of those people. The hearts of the listeners were touched by the vital truths that they heard in their mother tongue.\n\nAmong those ‘speaking in tongues’ today are Pentecostals and Baptists, also Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians. Jesus said that the holy spirit would ‘guide his disciples into all the truth.’ (John 16:13) Do the members of each of these religions believe that the others who also “speak in tongues” have been guided into “all the truth”? How could that be, since they are not all in agreement? What spirit is making it possible for them to “speak in tongues”?\nIn the first century, when Christians ‘spoke in tongues,’ what they said had meaning to people who knew those languages. (Acts 2:4, 8) Today, is it not true that ‘speaking in tongues’ usually involves an ecstatic outburst of unintelligible sounds?\n\nIn the first century, the Bible shows, congregations were to limit the ‘speaking in tongues’ to two or three persons who might do that at any given meeting; they were to do it “each in turn,” and if there was no interpreter present they were to keep silent. (1 Cor. 14:27, 28, RS) Is that what is being done today?\n\nThe Bible does indicate how long the ‘gift of tongues’ would be a part of Christian experience. According to the record, this gift and the other gifts of the spirit were always conveyed to persons by the laying on of hands of the apostles of Jesus Christ or in their presence. Thus, after their death and when the individuals who in that way had received the gifts died, the miraculous gifts resulting from the operation of God’s spirit must have come to their end. Such a view agrees with the purpose of those gifts as stated at Hebrews 2:2-4.
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The first "Pentecostals" in the modern sense appeared on the scene in 1901 in the city of Topeka, Kansas in a Bible school conducted by Charles Fox Parham, a holiness teacher and former Methodist pastor. In spite of controversy over the origins and timing of Parham's emphasis on glossolalia, all historians agree that the movement began during the first days of 1901 just as the world entered the Twentieth Century. The first person to be baptized in the Holy Spirit accompanied by speaking in tongues was Agnes Ozman, one of Parham's Bible School students, who spoke in tongues on the very first day of the new century, January 1, 1901. According to J. Roswell Flower, the founding Secretary of the Assemblies of God, Ozman's experience was the "touch felt round the world," an event which "made the Pentecostal Movement of the Twentieth Century." \n\nAs a result of this Topeka Pentecost, Parham formulated the doctrine that tongues was the "Bible evidence" of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He also taught that tongues was a supernatural impartation of human languages (xenoglossolalia) for the purpose of world evangelization. Henceforth, he taught, missionaries need not study foreign languages since they would be able to preach in miraculous tongues all over the world. Armed with this new theology, Parham founded a church movement which he called the "Apostolic Faith" and began a whirlwind revival tour of the American middle west to promote his exciting new experience. \n\nIt was not until 1906, however, that Pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention through the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles led by the African-American preacher William Joseph Seymour. He learned about the tongues-attested baptism in a Bible school that Parham conducted in Houston, Texas in 1905. Invited to pastor a black holiness church in Los Angeles in 1906, Seymour opened the historic meeting in April, 1906 in a former African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church building at 312 Azusa Street in downtown Los Angeles. \n\nWhat happened at Azusa Street has fascinated church historians for decades and has yet to be fully understood and explained. For over three years, the Azusa Street "Apostolic Faith Mission" conducted three services a day, seven days a week, where thousands of seekers received the tongues baptism. Word of the revival was spread abroad through The Apostolic Faith, a paper that Seymour sent free of charge to some 50,000 subscribers. From Azusa Street Pentecostalism spread rapidly around the world and began its advance toward becoming a major force in Christendom. \n\nThe Azusa Street movement seems to have been a merger of white American holiness religion with worship styles derived from the African-American Christian tradition which had developed since the days of chattel slavery in the South. The expressive worship and praise at Azusa Street, which included shouting and dancing, had been common among Appalachian whites as well as Southern blacks. The admixture of tongues and other charisms with black music and worship styles created a new and indigenous form of Pentecostalism that was to prove extremely attractive to disinherited and deprived people, both in America and other nations of the world. \n\nThe interracial aspects of the movement in Los Angeles were a striking exception to the racism and segregation of the times. The phenomenon of blacks and whites worshipping together under a black pastor seemed incredible to many observers. The ethos of the meeting was captured by Frank Bartleman, a white Azusa participant, when he said of Azusa Street, "The color line was washed away in the blood." Indeed, people from all the ethnic minorities of Los Angeles, a city which Bartleman called "the American Jerusalem," were represented at Azusa Steet. \n\nThe place of William Seymour as an important religious leader now seems to be assured. As early as 1972 Sidney Ah
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1 \n1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues 2 but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. \n2 \nAnd if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. \n3 \nIf I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. \n4 \n3 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, \n5 \nit is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, \n6 \nit does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. \n7 \nIt bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. \n8 \n4 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. \n9 \nFor we know partially and we prophesy partially, \n10 \nbut when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. \n11 \nWhen I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. \n12 \nAt present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. \n13 \n5 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. \nTable of Contents  Previous Chapter  Next Chapter\nFootnotes\n1 [1-13] This chapter involves a shift of perspective and a new point. All or part of the material may once have been an independent piece in the style of Hellenistic eulogies of virtues, but it is now integrated, by editing, into the context of 1 Cor 12-14 (cf the reference to tongues and prophecy) and into the letter as a whole (cf the references to knowledge and to behavior). The function of 1 Cor 13 within the discussion of spiritual gifts is to relativize all the charisms by contrasting them with the more basic, pervasive, and enduring value that gives them their purpose and their effectiveness. The rhetoric of this chapter is striking.\n\n2 [1-3] An inventory of gifts, arranged in careful gradation: neither tongues (on the lowest rung), nor prophecy, knowledge, or faith, nor even self-sacrifice has value unless informed by love. \n\n3 [4-7] This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.\n\n4 [8-13] The final paragraph announces its topic, Love never fails (1 Cor 13:8), then develops the permanence of love in contrast to the charisms (1 Cor 13:9-12), and finally asserts love's superiority even over the other "theological virtues" (1 Cor 13:13).\n\n5 [13] In speaking of love, Paul is led by spontaneous association to mention faith and hope as well. They are already a well-known triad (cf 1 Thes 1:3), three interrelated (cf 1 Cor 13:7) features of Christian life, more fundamental than any particular charism. The greatest . . . is love: love is operative even within the other members of the triad (7), so that it has a certain primacy among them. Or, if the perspective is temporal, love will remain (cf "never fails," 1 Cor 13:8) even when faith has yielded to sight and hope to possession.
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In the Bible it seems to mean that the apostles were given the ability to converse and understand many languages \nIn contemperary charismatic and Pentacostal Chritianity It is an uncontrolabble vocal expression of sounds not in any known language.In Hindu and Pagan Traditions this are also signs of having spirit or Gods work through you. A more melodic new age form is called Toning and may be done deliberatly as well as the compulsive , uncontrollable form associated with charismatic Christianity.
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speaking in tongues was nothing but speaking in diffirent languages, see for yourself;\nAc 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. \nAc 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. \nAc 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. \nAc 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? \nAc 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? \nAc 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, \nAc 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, \nAc 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God
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well you cant really understand speaking in toungues unless there is an iterpreter which at sometimes there is but at other time there is not and at those other times you are not suppose to know it was not ment for you to understand it was meant for God
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Actually, speaking in tongues is supposed to be a special gift that is only given to some people according to the Bible. Not every Christian can speak in tongues. According to the basic Christian faith, one has to actually want to speak in tongues to be able to do so. No certain type of Christian is given such an ability. \n\nAlso, speaking in tongues can also be dangerous because it can result in the work of the devil because there is no sure way to establish what the speaker is actually saying. It could be a innocent prayer, or it could be an utterance of the devil. Thus, speaking in tongues is not necessarily always good.
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Speak in tounges doesn't mean you are born again. Speak in tounges is a gift from God. You can ask Him if you want it but doesn't mean every Christian need to know speak in tounges.
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You can tell with the evidence of speaking with other tongues. "Accepting the Lord Jesus" is not a bad practice, it is only the first step. You have to believe before you receive. I personally believed and then received the holy ghost at a later time. I spoke in other tongues when I received the holy ghost. It is a sign given to unbelievers around you as well as a sign to yourself. Acts 2:38 says "Repent and be baptized, everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you SHALL receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Every time someone received the holy ghost in the Bible, they spoke in an another tongue. The reason this is only mentioned in the Book of Acts is because this is the only book that shows people actually receiving the holy ghost. In every book written before this, the spirit was not given to anyone. The books after were written to those who had received the holy ghost, in other words, the churches.
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Speaking in tongues is nothing. An atheist can do it easily. You just let go, and out it comes. If you don't believe me, I can assure that a Minister was convinced that I was doing it. It is a normal phenomenon that anyone can do, by "just letting go".  Nothing miraculous about it, I assure you.
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It is the same.\n\nSpeaking in tongues was just one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But bare in mind that when they spoke in tongues everyone heard it in their own language since it was the day of Pentecost and you had Jews from other countries who spoke different tongues. It is not the false speaking in tongues being practiced in some Church's' today.\n\nThere are only three actual examples of speaking in tongues recorded in the Bible (Acts chapters 2, 10, and 19). If we look at these three cases, we should find a clearer picture of this controversial gift. \n\n"When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven [divided] tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." Acts 2:1-4.  \n\n \nFire is a symbol for power. God sent this gift in the form of tongues of fire so they would know that He would empower their feeble tongues in the same way He strengthened Moses to go before Pharaoh (Exodus 4:10-12) and touched Isaiah's lips with a coal from the heavenly altar (Isaiah 6:6, 7).