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Originally Posted by allstate1
So the tongues you speak as initial evidence is actually a language but the unknown tongue is not??!
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Now I would suggest that you read
1 Cor. 14 in it's entirety.
20 Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.
21 In the law it is written:
“ With men of other tongues and other lips
I will speak to this people;
And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,”[b]
says the Lord.
22 Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.
Now, go back to verse 14.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.
18 I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all; 19 yet
in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
If tongues are merely a sign to the unbeliever, then why would Paul want to pray "in the spirit" in private?
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