Doubters...tongues are FOR A SIGN for non believers (to see...they are unbelievers...they are not going to speak it...those that have received the gift, those that have charity in Christ, speak it)
It's right there in black and white in Corinthians...if you don't understand...pray about it.
Thanks for the reply
Doubt is not the opposite of faith, unbelief, no faith is.
They are going to speak what, a language someone can understand so that they can believe God called prophecy?
Prophecy is the word of God. Prophets prophecy by declaring it as it is written .No new prophecy for over two thousand years.
Prophecy is the sign that spoke against the oral tradition of men called a law of the fathers. Their oral tradition made prophecy to no effect.
Roman 3 informs us what if they did not believe by exercising as of work faith that alone comes from hearing God . Will their unbelief (not doubt) make the faith of God as the work of of God (work of faith) without effect. There is no separation between faith, the planning, and the work the execution of the faith of God.. it’s all one thing.
1Co 14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the LORD.
Christ speaks prophecy, His living abiding word to other people other than the apostate Jew . Yet the prophecy will have no effect they will not believe God not seen, but believe men seen. The result of the fall walking by sight.
1Co 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign,
not to them that believe,
but to them that believe not: but
prophesying serveth not for them that believe not,
but for them which believe.
It is no different than any time he spoke from heaven giving his
understanding in other languages.
It the way the gospel went out while God was still adding to his word .All new prophecy has ceased .What we had in part up until the last person he revealed his thoughts to (John ) today we have the whole or perfect with no law missing by which we could know Him more adequately.
It’s how two different languages could be understood according to the one interpreter called; God. He who made the ear and mouth knows all the languages of the world.
I wonder if when Philip was moved to help the Ethiopian if the gift of tongues was not used to help them understand each other? Or when the Holy Spirit moved the Italian to help Peter understand the spiritual meaning of the parable? I would think there would be a language barrier. Paul was moved to write in in Hebrew. It could have been heard in two languages as God communicated with both..
What dialect did Cornelius speak as his native tongue? Did he receive the prophecy in Hebrew?
Act 10:3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
I would think in order to hear the gospel in order to believe God (not each other) they would both have to be on the same page or simply hear babble? I would trust if God can confuses a language in regard to all people and create new languages .
Then giving understanding of the different langue would be a walk in the park for him .
1Co 14:11 Therefore if
I "know not the meaning of the voice",
I shall be unto
him that speaketh a barbarian, and
he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. His gifts of interpretation tonguesare two fold .