Yes,but it also says that he that speaks in a tongue should pray for interpration. The authentic gift will always have someone or others with the ability to interpret.
The authentic gift will always have someone or others with the ability to interpret.
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imho,
IF
it's for distribution/edification beyond the one speaking.
Praying in tongues direct to God unintended for other ears is a different matter, imho.
Authenticity by what measure? Look, I can sit down and speak a lot of gobblydegook and have someone who is just as heretical as I am say they understand what the heck I am saying!
I have already discussed that tongues were used to spread the gospel to people of various languages. Here's a good example:
"And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, The field of blood."
See? That passage right there shows that it means the Hebrew language.
Tongues was another way to say a peoples language.
Yes,but it also says that he that speaks in a tongue should pray for interpration. The authentic gift will always have someone or others with the ability to interpret.
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Mostly agree.
However, somtimes an earnest authentic person will utter such because of lack of teaching or not discerning or knowing that an interpreter is not present etc. It's authentic in the sense that the person is authentically feeling an input from Holy Spirit. And, usually, Holy Spirit is quite happy to bless said individual in said context with the interpretation.
But perhaps the person has gotten mind-locked into thinking that they can only speak but not interpret and even when Holy Spirit has the interpretation ready for them and they could hear in The Spirit and then share it in English--they don't realize that and remain silent.
Such cases can be authentic but out of order.