Tongues interpretation - Rapture/Return

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Why is that, do you suppose? Because we already have the Bible to give us all we need to know?

because tongues and interpretation and prophecy are all to be judged by the Bible.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Sam

because tongues and interpretation and prophecy are all to be judged by the Bible.

That would not preclude an interpretation of tongues that clarifies a doctrine, though. Wouldn't it be nice to hear from God Himself whether 1-steppers or 3-steppers (or neither) are right? Or how many persons there are, or whether he considers pants on women to be sin? None of these would contradict the Bible (necessarily).

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I wouldn't say "... at all like" or unlike ... but I think the ancients had a bit of a different approach to the matter and thus had a different experience, at least outwardly at times.

First of all, the events as described in Acts 2 (KNOWN human languages) has never been reproduced in the 20th (and now 21st) Century outpouring. I know, I know... several of you will want to dispute that, but prove it first, okay?

Paul seems to have observed something other than the Acts 2, type of phenomena when he mentions "the tongues of angels..." (1 Corinthians 13:1). Of course, there are others who will insist that this was more of a literary use of hyperbole in that context and I honestly don't have a good argument against that.

It just "seems" to me that there were a lot of ancient "prophecies" and other "religious ecstasies" that were described in a way that makes it sound a lot like a "modern" Pentecostal experience. This is why I am inclined to see all of the "Shockamoo" and stuff as being an authentic and very ancient experience and not something that was just "invented" at Topeka or Azusa Street.

The ancient Christians, in all likelihood, had a rather broad spectrum of experiences - something akin to the "Charismatic Movement" that reaches across many denominations. We're probably a little too quick to demand that everybody fall out in a heap or to operate our altars as mosh pits.

Interesting. The Moody Institute/Wiersbe view of tongues and the interpretation of tongues takes on a completely different meaning of these gifts and after the bickering is finished, their ideas about it are, at the very least, interesting.