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I was wondering

capthowdy

Astarot
I was wondering if a pentecostal could clear this up for me...(and I'm not being sarcastic nor demeaning).....what language do you speak when you speak in tounges? My aunt is pentecostal, and I attended her church, and a woman started speaking in tounges, alas I did not recognize the language being spoken, some have told me it was arameic, I have heard arameic spoken and that wasn't what it was, some have told me it was jibberish. Never the less I would like to know from an actual pentecostal.
 

alex60

Member
Speaking in tounges,or 'glossalalia', is bibically correct,the Pauline books mention it as one of the gifts of the spirit.It is not essential that every Christian must master it for one's salvation as some have other gifts.It's a pity that some churches put too much of emphesis on the same.
 

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
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capthowdy said:
g).....what language do you speak when you speak in tounges? . . .
While we cannot put God in a box, generally speaking and for the purposes of discussion:

There are two main manifestations of tongues---just as there are of each and all the nine supernatural Gifts of the Spirit as are listed in 1 Cor 12.

There is tongues that ministers to others, is dealt out by the Holy Ghost as He wills, and is intended to be out loud. It can be either that of a language known somewhere in the world (in which case it might not be interpreted, usually being for the benefit of someone in attendance for whom it is a known language); or it can be "the tongues of . . . angels," an angelic/spirit language not known by man (and is intended by God to be interpreted).

The second main type of tongues is that of a personal prayer language, able to be done at will, and is most likely an angelic language unknown to humankind---it is intended to be spoken/prayed quietly, being between only God and the one speaking/praying (oftentimes it is spoken out loud regardless: human error).

jim
 

Curiouz

New Member
an angelic language unknown to humankind? wow, i'm terribly interested. Have you ever heard it brotherjim?? what does it sound like?? if anyone knows any link on further reading about these tongues, i'd really appreciate it.
 

Halcyon

Lord of the Badgers
I've heard that speaking in tongues is actually the first language of mankind, before Yahwah destroyed the tower and split humans into tribes with different languages.

The only supposed angelic language i've ever heard of is Enochian, but i doubt that it is a language accepted by most Christians as angelic.
 
Curiouz said:
an angelic language unknown to humankind? wow, i'm terribly interested. Have you ever heard it brotherjim?? what does it sound like?? if anyone knows any link on further reading about these tongues, i'd really appreciate it.
Yes, of course I've heard it: I've been Pent./charismatic since 1982, when I myself began to pray in tongues, and for hours a day. That may sound boastful, but it is not; it is the everyday life of innumerable such as I.

(I cannot myself imagine going a single day or two without praying in tongues. In my natural language, within minutes I run out of things for which to pray, but I can go for 3 and 4 and 5 hours in tongues and do not even feel exhausted: it's near-effortless---and also intoxicating/anesthetizing.)

How does one describe the sound of a language?? In any case, I've not mastered the English vocabulary well enough to adequately describe it. Tongues sounds like a foreign language, that's all. If you want to hear it, just visit most any charismatic or Pentecostal church: at some point, chances are better than 50-50 that you will hear someone pray or speak in tongues.

I recall my first time. I had been a "committed" Christian for just half a year or so, when a friend invited me to hear an Evangelist at his full gospel church. During the prayer part of the service a lady prayed aloud in tongues, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever heard---it really did seem angelic somehow. I went back to my non-char. church only one more time, and it seemed so spiritually dead that I didn't return (save once for a concert).

Actually---even though many might disagree---ANY person has the ability to PRAY in tongues: it is your spirit praying. But unless someone rec'd. the Empowering (AKA "Baptism"---a misnomer) of the Holy Ghost UPON them (i.e., the charismatic experience), who in the world would they be praying to, as there's no one there to hear?!? (Rhetorical; charism. theology only.)

SPEAKING in tongues is a different matter---there are these two very different manifestations, speaking and praying. When we SPEAK aloud in tongues in a church service or similar, if genuine (rare: it's usually the PRAYER tongues and the person was mistaken to pray our loud instead of quietly to themselves and God), it is because the Holy Ghost temporarily, literally filled us to bring forth the tongues message. Such can also be an angelic language, but sometimes is a language known somewhere in the world and/or known by a "foreigner" in attendance (such as in the example of Acts 2).

Insofar as more info., it's limitless. Searching on the internet should yield millions of possibilities. Careful, though, as these things of charismata are very misunderstood and therefore more often than not, misused and even at times abused: sift, sift, sift. "Opinions" on the subject vary widely.

God bless, brother jim
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