Untrue. Praying in the Spirit is praying in tongues.
No praying in tongues = no indwelling Holy Spirit.
Tongues is the evidence of truly being baptised in the Holy Spirit.
The sign promised by Jesus.
Confusion and arguments arise because the majority of non-spirit-filled Christians deny the truth of the scriptures and claim to also
have the indwelling Holy Spirit because the founders of their denomination tell them that they have received the Holy Spirit
according to their own theology.
God himself confirms that "praying in the language that I have given you" is praying in the Spirit many, many times over through
the operation of the gift of prophecy spoken at our meetings.
There is no higher authority than God in determining the truth of doctrine.
Experience is not the highest authority in determining un-seen spiritual truth . If it was when Satan brought into the mind of Jesus showing him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. Jesus should of bowed down to that experience but rather he said three times, as
it is written. Going beyond as it is written simply opens the door way to the occult world.
If you go to the foundation of tongues which is God mocking the Jews who mocked him by refusing to hear prophecy. Seeing they were hanging on to a oral tradition of men which made the word of God without effect .Then you might understand why God spoke the gospel by interpreting it directly to each one of that 3000 heard that day in their own tongue.
Eliminating the Holy Spirit as the interpreter I would think speaks of another gospel other that as it is written.
God brining new prophecy in other languages other than Hebrew alone fulfilled the promise of the law found in Isaiah 28 . Men who have turned making a noise into as sign that confirm, only confirm they refuse to hear prophecy
God is no longer brining any new prophecy after any manner to include tongues.
We walk by faith not after signs as lying wonders gospel . Look to the foundation of the law in Isaiah 28 it helps to point who the sign representing those who will not hear prophecy. The sign seekers have turned that upside down and made the sign into something that confirm they hear prophecy .The opposite is true
It is according to the law (Isiah 28) and prophecy or fulfillment (1 Corinthians 14:21-22) called the law and testimony ( Both as one witness)
To the law
and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20
The foundation of tongues below
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:
yet "they would
not hear". But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, "ye scornful men", that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Isaiah 28: 12-14
The testimony or prophecy below or we could say law and the prophets
In the
law (Isaiah 28: 12-14) 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.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. 1 Corinthians 14 :21 -22
