Subject: how do you speak in tongues? |
Bible Note: You wrote: "you must be kidding no one can teach a person to speak in tongues it is a gift only god can give.(bright light) Now I see what you are saying, sometimes you don't understand until someone comes up with something so stupid as what you said. I must wait on God for he will give the gift to me not man. Thanks alot email me sometimes we can talk about other things concerning the word." I believe one of the greatest diservices that the King James Version was the adding of one word that was not in the Greek manuscript they were using to arrive at their version. It is this verse 1Cor 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. (KJV) If you look in the KJV you will see that the word "gifts" is italicized, meaning that word was added. I wish I could put the Interlinear of this verse to show you that "gifts" is not in the manuscript but the program I'm using won't copy the verse in the Interlinear. Now the word just before "gifts" is the word "spiritual". The Strong's definition of spiritual is: 4152 pneumatikos (pnyoo-mat-ik-os'); from 4151; non-carnal, i.e. (humanly) ethereal (as opposed to gross), or (daemoniacally) a spirit (concretely), or (divinely) supernatural, regenerate, religious: Another definition could be spiritual matters or spiritual things. Paul is saying in that verse he doesn't want us to be ignorant in spiritual matters. Of which speaking in tongues is a spiritual matter. So you see how that one added word has distorted the entire holy spirit field? There's no more waiting because it is not a gift to be waited for. |