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You are taking that one verse in isolation and missing the bigger picture, including that the above scripture is either denied or perhaps qualified by subsequent verses.
v5b...Now the one prophesying is greater than the one speaking in tongues, unless he should interpret, so that the church might receive edification.
If as the above clearly implies, the interpretation is speaking from God to men for their edification, then the initial tongue was also speaking to from God men.
So from this we can see that tongues can be directed at God, or at men.
And those men may understand the tongue, or may need the aid of an interpretation.
As I said in another post, there are only two types of tongues in scripture, ones that edify the individual, ie tongues by our human spirit in personal prayer, and ones that edify the assembly, ie tongues by The Holy Spirit. It's the same gift no matter what, but it's use is different.
There's no further meaning of diverse tongues. Scripture says that tongues are not understandable since they are directed to GOD,.... and that statement by The Holy Spirit applies across scripture,... and that obviously includes Acts 2.
We have to understand Acts 2 under that stipulation, and it's easy to abide by that if we just understand that all 9 of the gifts were poured out at the same time, and more than one gift was operating during that event.
It's why Joel said that folks would prophesy,... you had tongues with interpretation happening. Tongues with interpretation, according to scripture, is equal to the gift of prophecy.
Those tongues in acts 2 were by utterance of The Holy Spirit,... so they had interpretation of tongues by utterance of The Holy Spirit also. This was the very first corporate operation of tongues,... they just didn't have a church building yet.
To be honest, I just don't think most folks here have looked into understanding the gifts of The Holy Spirit as much as they should have over the years. I admit, this section can be very confusing for some, but we have people here changing their story every couple of months.
It comes down to people attempting to say that tongues can be understood somehow, and in turn making The Holy Spirit out to be a liar over in Corinthians, and they do this every single time.
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