[metmom]

Interesting.

I always presumed that the verse about speaking to God meant that if there was no one around to interpret, like if I spoke the Dani language around someone who didn’t know it, then only god would or could understand it. But that it was still a human language.

[CynicalBear]

>> I always presumed that the verse about speaking to God meant that if there was no one around to interpret, like if I spoke the Dani language around someone who didn’t know it, then only god would or could understand it. But that it was still a human language.<<

I always thought that also but I don’t think that’s the case. Look here.

1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

That indicates to me that it is not just the “tongues of men”.

[CynicalBear]

One of the gifts I see most often publicly abused is the gift of healing. Benny Hinn comes to mind.