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NASB | 1 Corinthians 12:30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 12:30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? |
Subject: Do holy people have to speak in tongues? |
Bible Note: Can you explain to me how people who don't even have the gospel right are praying in tongues? Mormons claim to pray in tongues. Do they have the gift? How do we know that the others do as well? How do you know that what they do is not just a self-assured, self-induced, meaningless babbling? I say this not to start a fight, but to raise a very legitimate question. How do we know that it is real? Until the 20th century, by the way, the gift of tongues was predominantly understood to mean the speaking of unknown languages without having learned them. Therefore, Luther and Calvin addressed them as such. The part that is insulting is insisting, as Ezekiel does, is that tongues is THE sign of the Spirit's working. Therefore, I who do not speak in tongues am not really used by the Spirit of God, and everyone in church history prior to the 1905 Asuza "revival" didn't, either. A good study of the modern Pentecostal movement in light of 2000 years of church history will put all of this into great perspective. God has and does work mightily in the lives of men and through his children apart from the manifestation of sensational gifts. --Joe! |