What if you began to spontaneously speak in tongues? - Reader Poll

[St. SteVen]

Tongues is a very controversial subject to discuss. Some Christians seem to be absolutely terrified about the subject. There are testimonies of Christians fleeing meetings when they hear other believers speaking in tongues. (culture shock) I assume this is caused by so many churches preaching against tongues. But what if it happened to you? There are testimonies of spontaneous tongues from believers that knew nothing about what they were.

What if you began to spontaneously speak in tongues? (assuming it had never happened before)
Use the poll response numbers to reply. (after you vote)

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[St. SteVen]

One month later and zero replies. - LOL

HOT POTATO subject!

 

[ElieG12]

I guess if that happened to someone they wouldn't even think about what was happening to them.

How could they think in a language they never learned?

 

[St. SteVen]

I guess if that happened to someone they wouldn't even think about what was happening to them.

Seriously?
You would begin spontaneously speaking in tongues and think nothing of it? - LOL

Get real!

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[ElieG12]

I don't waste time with "What if?" questions.

My previous comment was a joke. If you speak with sounds you don't even know what they mean, isn't your brain detached from the languages you actually speak? So how are you going to think in languages you don't know?

BTW, do you really care about the answers people give you, or are you just generating traffic?

 

[Lambano]

A street preacher down at Broward Community College tried to "teach" me to pray in tongues. Didn't work. Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's not something that can be taught. Or even passed on by the laying-on of hands.

 

[St. SteVen]

From the OP.

Tongues is a very controversial subject to discuss. Some Christians seem to be absolutely terrified about the subject. There are testimonies of Christians fleeing meetings when they hear other believers speaking in tongues. (culture shock) I assume this is caused by so many churches preaching against tongues. But what if it happened to you? There are testimonies of spontaneous tongues from believers that knew nothing about what they were.

What if you began to spontaneously speak in tongues?

• 1) You would tell no one and hope it never happened again? (horrors)
• 2) You would seek medical/psychological help?
• 3) You would ask a close friend what to do about it?
• 4) You would ask your Pastor what to do about it?
• 5) You would accept it as a gift from God?
• 6) You would hope it happened again? (bliss)
• 7) You would begin to study spiritual gifts to see what else God might do?

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[Behold]

No one "randomly speaks using the Gift of Tongues".

Whereas a prayer language, that is for self edification, is not the "gift of Tongues".

 

[St. SteVen]

No one "randomly speaks using the Gift of Tongues".

Whereas a prayer language, that is for self edification, is not the "gift of Tongues".

Can you name the other four uses of tongues?

Search this forum for: Five Uses of Tongues. Thanks.

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[Behold]

Can you name the other four uses of tongues?

Search this forum for: Five Uses of Tongues. Thanks.

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What you posted sounds like some of Charismatic Lady's bizarre concepts.

Here is the thing..
The reason that there is confusion about "tongues".. is very simple.

Its just one thing...

There is "the GIFT of a foreign language" that you never learned, and God needs you to speak it for those who are listening to you, so that they can "hear in their own language"... (Acts 2:38).... the Gospel.
This gift is naturally going to be given to a Missionary. (Apostle) .

And there is also... the self edifying "prayer language" that is supernatural, but its not one of the 9 Spiritual Gifts, that are on Paul's Lists of Spiritual Gifts.

Now, if you want to drill down to the core, then .. you have this..

"Jew's require a sign" and "tongues are for a sign".