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1 | Gift of speaking in tongues for all? | Bible general Archive 3 | Morant61 | 167968 | ||
Greetings Kalos! I am not one to argue with facts! :-) It is interesting that the word tongue only occurs twice in Romans, but it is only used 50 times in the entire NT and 19 of those are in 1 Corinthians. It is a bit surprising that the second most occurances of the word are found in Revelation (8 times), even more than the six occurances in Acts. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | Gift of speaking in tongues for all? | Bible general Archive 3 | mitchm0521 | 167971 | ||
If God said something once, its important. I'm not sure what counting the number of times something is said tells us. It certainly doesn't mean praying in tongues is unimportant. Because if thats someones theory, then repentance isn't important, that word is used less than tongues. God Bless, Mitch |
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3 | Gift of speaking in tongues for all? | Bible general Archive 3 | Morant61 | 167976 | ||
Greetings Mitch! The number of times is only important in several ways. 1) The more often a word or term is used the easier it is to define it's meaning. There are some words in the NT that never occur anywhere else (as far as we know) in Greek literature. In those cases, it is very difficult to even know what the word means. 2) Secondly, different authors can use words in different ways. So, examining how a word is used in different books can be very enlightening. 3) The number of times a word is used can indicate it's importance to a particular author. This doesn't mean that less frequent words are unimportant, but that the themes behind them simply may not be used as often by one author as opposed to another. However, if a word or phrase is used seldom, it would certainly be one indicatation that it was not as important as other concepts. For instance, the various forms of 'repent', 'repentance', ect..., occur 74 times in the NIV. So, it would be an important word. But, Kalos' point was simply that the concept of 'tongues' is not mentioned in Romans at all (though some would argue that Rom. 8:26 is a possible exception). Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | Gift of speaking in tongues for all? | Bible general Archive 3 | mitchm0521 | 167994 | ||
You said if a word or phrase is used seldom, it would certainly be one indication that it was not as important as other concepts. There is four places in the Word where God uses Alpha and Omega to describe himself. So is that not important? My point here is, I don't care if something is used only one. If God wrote it, its just as important as if he had wrote it a thousand times. To say anything is less important than another thing in the Word, is absurd. Every single letter of the Word of God is important, its a law brother, a law that we should all be living by. God Bless, Mitch |
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5 | Gift of speaking in tongues for all? | Bible general Archive 3 | warsaw | 167999 | ||
I agree with you completly when you say, "Every single letter of the Word of God is important". Some are chrismatic... others are not. It's a matter of what a person believes the word says. Speaking in tongues is a secondary issue. The important thing is who Jesus is and what he means to us. We are ALL brothers and sisters in Christ. It's interesting to hear other peoples opinions about what the Word says. We have to be careful not to scripture pluck. (you know when a person "plucks" a scripture from here and there and builds a belief system that is totally out of context.) Each book in the Bible had a reason. Each sentence is not exclusive of all the others around it. For example: In 1 Cor 14:14, "For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful." In other words, if I am praying in a language that I do not understand (nor the people around me), then "my" spirit prays, but I don't know what I am saying. He did not say "the Holy Spirit" is praying through me. In Romans 8:26, "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express." This is clearly refering to the Holy Spirit because it refers to "himself". In 1 Corinthians, the church had some serious issues, one of which was Spiritual Gifts. It appears that people were especially abusing the gift of Speaking in Tongues. That's why he makes the reference in 1 Cor 14:14. (In my opinion). Your brother in Christ, mike |
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