What do you think about the "gift of tongues"?
373750
I raise my eyebrow at the whole idea. Now if I was suddenly filled with the Holly Spirit and was so overjoyed that I couldn't form words in English and spoke something like Latin or Italian.. then yeah.. but jabbering on in a "language so ancient" that no one understands it.. then no.. they are not speaking in tongues.. they just can't express themselves in words.. so they make sounds.
1068752
1 Corinthians, 13:\n\nIf I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.  And 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.  If 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.\n\nLove is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. \n\nIt bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  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.  For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. \n\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.  At 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. \n\nSo faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1105710
Just about any noise the one doing it wants to make...from all that I have heard. There is NO Biblical justification for what is refered to as speaking in tongues, as it is practiced to day, by many sects.\n\nThe gift of tongues was given to the Apostles on the first Petacost. It was the ability to speak in all the languages of those gathered in Jerusalem at that time for that High feast day of the jews. That is all there was to it.\n\nIf one dose begin to speak in tongues it will be in a known language. If there is no one there to interprt then the one speaking must stop and keep quiet.
630300
One of the gifts of the Spirit is self-control. That is a rough translation but it is much more than that. The Spirit allows us to love the unlovable, to care for the disgusting and to love those who hate us. It is impossible to do these things that we would not be able to do without His help.
411689
If you cannot translate what you say and share those prayers with others then its just random gibberish. Most cases of speaking in tongues are fake.
364778
NO\n\nIt 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.
206993
Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is best understood by starting with First Corinthians 12:1—14:40. There St. Paul explains that every gift of the Spirit is to benefit the entire Body of Christ. \n\nAny gift can be misused by damaging that body, especially by causing factions (for and against someone or a small group of people). Apparently, that had already happened in Corinth before St. Paul wrote First Corinthians. \n\nSt. Paul teaches that the Spirit’s greatest gift is charity. All other gifts are subordinate to it. See Galatians 5:22 where St. Paul describes nine “fruits” of the Spirit. \n\nSt. Thomas Aquinas concluded that tongue-speaking had happened when God offered it, but it no longer happens. \n\nThe vast majority of confirmed Catholics will never speak in tongues—as St. Paul uses that term. Why? That’s a good question to ask God when you get to heaven. \n\nI am a Christian, specifically Catholic. Most Catholics and other Christians have cooperated with God’s grace in less dramatic but no less effective ways than speaking in tongues. What is primary is using the Spirit’s gifts to build up the Body of Christ.
11314
I miself speak in toungues so i tink baptists need to surender their doctrine and ask for the Holy Ghost. It is normal that a person thinks that someone speaking in\ntoungues is mad,just look at Corinthians 14 and Acts 2  \nspeaking in toungues is for your own belife.If you want to prouve that speaking in toungues is a key element of christianity than remember that all profets are also speaking in toungues and it is easy to realize that a profet is real after God speaks to \nyou abaut thing you have kept hidden and abaut thing that will hape ( and hapen every time).\nBTW just so that readers know next year is gowig to be much harder that this one with more  casualties and deaths. \nThis year we had earthqaqes and flods , next year the world will also experience fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!
732887
First, this is a GOOD queston.\n\nIt is amazing the influence Jesus has had on the world. It is Christmas season now which would be nothing if Jesus had not come. People in every country on earth will be opening Christmas presents in the next couple weeks because God sent His Son as the best gift of all time.\n\nJesus is much more than a good teacher. Much greater than any prophet. He is the only one who has ever claimed to be the way to God that could back up His claims.
402399
yes it is, and is described in the book of Acts....\n\nToday it is still scriptural.  How people use this gift of the Holy spirit is up to them.  It should be done with reverence, as it is the holy spirit speaking through the person, presenting their prayer needs to God. It is a gift that helps us pray when we do not know what to say or do not have the proper words to express our feelings....If people abuse this gift (for example, for attracting attention to oneself), then this will grieve the holy spirit, and the prayer will not have any value or positive response from God.
1070423
Absolutely it is insanity.  Have you ever seen/heard someone speaking in tongues?  It is truly frightening!
1782
1 Corinthians 12:7-11\nBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.  But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.\n\nYes.  I most definitely believe them.  I have witnessed them.  I have the gift of speaking in tongues.  And you can have more than one by the way.  I wish you the best on your path to God.  I will  be praying for you.  Merry Christmas. :)
1177240
Yes I do.   It is in the Word of God.  Also Jesus, the disciples, as well as, the other apostles did it as well.  It was done as a commissioning of service.   I Timothy 4:14 says do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic messsage when the body of olders laid their hands on you.  Over and over in the New Testaments we are given accounts of the 'laying on of hands'.  Some were healed, delivered and set free.  So if the Bible says it, that settles  it for me.    May God Bless
675264
Jehovah's Witnesses understand "speaking in tongues" to refer to actual preaching in an actual literal foreign language, allowing foreigners to learn God's Word and Jesus' teachings.\n\nThe Scriptures indicate that when the bible writing was complete, such miraculous gifts would cease:\n\n(1 Corinthians 13:8-10) But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease... For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially; but when that which is complete arrives, that which is partial will be done away with.
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NO\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. (Acts 2:4, 14, 17; 10:44-46; 19:6; see also Acts 8:14-18.) 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.\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”?\n\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?
675795
You receive the holy spirit when you ask for it ...you know you have it when you speak in tongues while praising God
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yes\nThere is a lot spoken about tongues all in Corinthians. \nRemember tongues is speaking in another language such as if I spoke in Spanish right now comprenda. It is not babbling.\n\n1 Corinthians 12:8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;  to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit;  to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles;  to another prophecy;  to another discerning of spirits;  to another divers kinds of tongues;  to another the interpretation of tongues: 11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.