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Including yourself. If you are going to criticise the gift in general and accuse Pentecostals and Charismatics (on this forum no less!!!) of being barbarians distorting the Holy Writ, then you need to show what Paul is saying about how to exercise the gift of tongues correctly. It was only the use of it in a public meeting that he said that they would be barbarians to those who did not understand what was being spoken, and the listener would be barbarians to them. But the private use of tongues directed to God is not being a barbarian because He understands exactly what you are saying, even if you don't understand it yourself.I understand that entire chapter, and the entire subject Oscar. That is why I quoted other verses of that chapter to further clarify Paul's intent to keep foreign tongue speakers quite if there was no one able to understand in their own language. It is right there. Clear as a bell. It has NOTHING to do with babbling incomprehensibly as some kind of crazy "gift" from God. I guess some folk just only see what they want to see...
If you think that tongues is just jibber jabber, then you need to be around Indians speaking Hindi, and Chinese people speaking Mandarin, because all you will hear what sounds like jibber jabber, but they understand each other even though it sounds like babble to us. I deal with clients sometimes through an interpreter and I have heard worse that way than through any Pentecostal service I have ever attended!
Do you think that God understands only King James English? Really?
I guess there are some who will say that if King James English is okay for Jesus and Paul, it is okay for them.
Actually, when my doctor used medical terms to explain a medical condition to me, I told him that those words sounded like tongues, and I will use them in church next Sunday!
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