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NASB | 1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 13:1 ¶ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love [for others growing out of God's love for me], then I have become only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal [just an annoying distraction]. |
Subject: Can anyone speak in tonges |
Bible Note: Thanks for your input Mark. The word "other" (het-er-os) according to Strongs Hebrew and Greek Dictionary, means "of uncertain affinity." I would like to pose a question to Searcher56. Is what is uncertain, unknown? "G1100 Of uncertain affinity; the tongue; by implication a language (specifically one naturally unacquired): - tongue." May I ask if anyone can tell me why folks are now so certain as to what was then uncertain? Are we so much wiser today, than they who actually heard and discribed the speaking of the gift of "tongues"? (I am speaking to any who would argue the point.) Read on down to verse 6 in Acts 2. What did the people hear. NASB states "And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together,..." Note the use of the word "sound." Is it likely that, understanding the "sound" in each his own language, one would use the word "sound"? I contend that (keeping in mind what Paul stated concerning the use and gift of tongues,) one should consider that when Acts 2:4-13 is read as it is written, and in context, one will see that each individual heard what was spoken ---in their own language.--- (Not that the individual language was actually spoken.) In other words, though the apostles were Galileans, each "heard" them speak in his own tongue. Thus, the speaking of "tongues." There is no mention of such in scripture, and it is quite unlikely that each of the apostles were linguists, or that the few who may have been fluent in Greek and Hebrew, were as well, in the dozen or so other languages and dialects of those gathered together. Is it so hard for todays Church (believers) to believe in miracles, that it/they must discount those spoken of in what it/they professe/s, the Living word of God? Your servant Shythiyl |