I know there is Scriptural support for speaking in tongues, but what real merit does it bring? Does it actually help you to grow spiritually, or is just a bunch of spiritual emotionalism?
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daveleau
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It is not meant to help the person speaking in tongues necessarily, but is intended to be a benefit for the Church (1 Cor 12, and 1 Cor 14). It is an outward sign of edification and a sign of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 14:22). It is not a required sign for salvation, but is a sign used early on of the Holy Spirit's infusion into the new Believers. There are some who say the two instances in Acts (Pentecost and at Ephesus) where tongues come on the new believers are indicative of what should occur in all new Believers.
They are used as a sign. It is not emotionalism, because tongues spoken about in 1 Cor 12 are not from man (source of emotion), but from God.
Tongues are much maligned in today's churches because of their extreme misuse in some churches. Tongues as a sign of salvation is a reoccurrence of the Corinthian problem in today's world.
Scripture (again 1 Cor 12 and 14) tells us that interpretation should be coupled with speaking in tongues. It does not state that they must be coupled, but implies that they will in most cases.
They are used as a sign. It is not emotionalism, because tongues spoken about in 1 Cor 12 are not from man (source of emotion), but from God.
Tongues are much maligned in today's churches because of their extreme misuse in some churches. Tongues as a sign of salvation is a reoccurrence of the Corinthian problem in today's world.
Scripture (again 1 Cor 12 and 14) tells us that interpretation should be coupled with speaking in tongues. It does not state that they must be coupled, but implies that they will in most cases.
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Tongues was and I say again a SIGN gift. If you read in I cor.1:22 " For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom. "
When we come to the N.T. we need to keep reminding ourselfs that the Jews brought the Salvation to the world.
Down through History there was always a sign given to prove that the message was from God. We mistakingly look at the letters of Paul and think they were to a bunch of Christian, with little Jewish ties.
Most everyone in the early church were Jews and they required a sigh. Tongues was Just a Sign, along with healing, miracles, dicerning of Spirits Prophecy, etc.
These were all special gifts to the Jews to show that the church was form God. THERE GOD.
In AD 70 there was the last sign to the Jews and that was destroying of the Temple, Showing them that He (God) was through with the Jewish nation and would build His church. AD 70 all sign gift stoped and we as the church do not require a sing, for we live by faith.
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