Question about "speaking in tongues"

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by TyronePalmer

Prayer or spirit language

1st Corinthians 14:2,4,14-17

"For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God; for no one hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries."

"The one speaking in a tongue builds himself up;"

"For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind. Else, if you bless in the spirit, the one occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say? For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up.

If your pastor or anyone else is speaking in their prayer or spirit language out loud in the assembly they are in error according to scripture, because they cannot understand what they are speaking nor can anyone else! So the body of Christ is NOT being built up when one does that.

It's lack of understanding and obedience to the word that's the problem. If I were you I would bring the scriptures to the pastor and say something about it.

And if the language being spoken is not a known language of men that can be interpreted for the edification of the whole body, then it should not be spoken out loud in the assembly of the saints.

1 Cor. 14 needs to be read again by most Pentecostals, and tongue-talkers. It would bring much less confusion in the services!

About the bolded above - a family member did just that - took 1 Cor. 14 to his pastor, and guess what, he screamed and yelled at him for being in rebellion and not just coming to church and learning, and trying to study things for himself, and was told not to bring questionable scriptures to him in question, but just sit and listen in church, and he would get all the answers he needed.

So good luck with going to the pastor.... most OP preachers don't want to deal with the implications of 1 Cor 14. Although most certainly one should try. My family member - left the church eventually over the issue of not being allowed to question ANYTHING at all. Thank God, he finally found his way back to God years later, only by the mercies of God, and a praying mother...