Don’t you know that the language of God is understandable to those needing to understand?
Question:
[I left this one unedited since the author believes he is being led by the Spirit.]
I don’t know who you’ve met, what you’ve read, or who you’ve talked to. But what I do know is that the blood is dripping from your hands and all that you led astray you will have to pay for.
You haven’t spoken to a true Pentecostal for if you did they would have told you that speaking in tongues as the Spirit of GOD gives utterance is the initial evidence that you have received the Holy Ghost.
They would have told you it was the language of GOD and that it is understandable for those who need to understand it. Like on the Day of Pentecost.
How in the world do you think all those people from all of those many countries could all hear the language of their home country? If all in the upper room, (by the way it wasn’t just the 12 apostles, there were 120 people up there including Mary the mother of Yehoshua HaMaShiach).
If all in the upper room were speaking say Greek, only the people from Greece would have recognised their home country. If all were speaking Crete or one of the countries’ tongues only the people from those countries could have understood them. And this could only be understood if each one was saying the same thing at the same time. For if each one was speaking the language of each of the countries present it would have sounded like a bunch of babbling and confusion because that’s what it sounds like when a bunch of people are speaking English at the same time let alone different languages.
But each person heard them speaking their own language, in their own tongue. The only tongue that could do that is the tongue of the ALMIGHTY.
Yes some people will also gain the ability to speak in an earthly language along with the Holy Ghost, or some other gift. But this is NOT the tongues of GOD.
The Bible says,
“Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not...”
1 Corinthians 14:22
You could be speaking against the Holy Ghost sir. You could be speaking against THE HOLY GHOST. I don’t know if this is considered blasphemy or speaking against The Holy Ghost or not or even if you are doing this knowingly or not but just in case it, you need to be VERY careful for that will not be forgiven you. Not in this world and not in the world to come:
“Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men…But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.”
Matthew 12:31-32
I don’t know if what you’ve done is considered speaking against the Holy Ghost or is blasphemy or not, and I hope for your sake it isn’t. People for the sake of being right will say all manner of things not realizing it could cost them salvation. I don’t know but just in case you haven’t cursed yourself to eternal damnation:
“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Yehoshua HaMaShiach for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
Acts 2:38
“While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter,
because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues…”
Acts 10:44-46
Repent sir. REPENT. Repent of the wickedness that you have done to prove yourself right. How do I know that this was just to prove yourself right? There was no need to put all of the rest of this up here except for how you believe a person receives salvation except if you’re trying to prove yourself right. For what should be important is saving people not showing how you think others are wrong and you’re right.
The scripture needs no private interpretation as you’ve done. It is plain for all to see what it means concerning how to be saved. The only ones it is hid to is it is hid TO those that are lost, (2 Corinthians 4:3). Not FROM them but TO them. This means they heard it and rejected it in their hearts but they don’t want to be saved, they want to be lost.
Side note:1 and 2 Corinthians was
a letter from Paul, (which needs to be read from the beginning [aka chapter 1 verse 1]to understand it properly), to those who were already saved, already born again,
“Paul, called to be an apostle of Yehoshua HaMaShiach through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Yehoshua HaMaShiach , called (to be) saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Yehoshua HaMaShiach our Lord, both their's and our's:”
1 Corinthians 1:1-2
Paul was speaking to ones who were already saved and wanted to know which was more necessary concerning the gifts of the Spirit for that part of the Body of Christ at that time. You read it and don’t understand it because you haven’t been born again. It is addressed to the saved, the unsaved couldn’t possibly understand what it means, okay?
Okay, that’s all. Repent sir. For YOUR sake, (and if you haven’t cursed yourself that is), repent.
Answer:
There is definitely an odd mix of Pentecostal beliefs and Messianic Judaism in this diatribe. The author plays word games to avoid being trapped. Thus, though I've known several Pentecostals and taught in a school run by Pentecostals for over a year, the author would claim they were not true Pentecostals if they did not hold the author's beliefs. Of course, there is no definitive standard for what constitutes true Pentecostalism, so the author believes he is safe from being proven wrong.
In a similar way, the author avoids the fact that the gibberish spoken is not a language by claiming that only those whom God intends to understand will actually understand what is being said.
When the people exclaimed about the miracle in Acts 2, they said, "We hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!" (Acts 2:11). Because it says "them," we know that more than one apostle was speaking. This fits with what is stated next, "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them" (Acts 2:14). It was Peter's sermon, but the other eleven were also there, presumably translating what Peter said into other languages. The people heard the apostles speaking in their native languages. This is how the Spirit described the miracle. "They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak" (Acts 2:4). The miracle was that they spoke in other languages, not that people heard in other languages.
Also, notice that throughout the text, the Holy Spirit, through Luke, states that multiple languages were spoken. The author of the diatribe claims it was a single language heard differently by selected people. There is no support for the author's position.
The idea that 120 received the baptism of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost is also different from what Luke recorded. See "Did 120 Receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:1-4?"
What is strange is that after quoting a verse that states that tongues are a sign for unbelievers, the author scolds those of us who don't believe the author is capable of performing this sign. Babbling is not impressive to skeptics.
Nor can this be blasphemy of the Holy Spirit when the author is incapable of proving that the Holy Spirit is actually behind the author's babbling. I'm also not impressed that the author believes it is fine to edit the biblical text to match his beliefs. For example, the author quotes Acts 2:38 from the King James Version but alters the wording so that "in the name of Jesus Christ" becomes "in the name of Yehoshua HaMaShiach," which doesn't match the underlying Greek text.
Of course, the author manages to violate the law of noncontradiction. In a lengthy rebuttal to what has been posted on La Vista's website, the author claims that proving someone wrong and asserting that you are right is a sin. Obviously, the author thinks he is an exception to his own rule, but logically, he has proven himself wrong. He also forgot about the command "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world" (I John 4:1). I've been following John's command, and the author has come up severely short.
