There are three manifestations of tongues. One is what we see in Acts 2 and 10 where when the person speaking is speaking in their own tongue and the hearer HEARS in their own language.
I do not agree. In Acts 2, the hearers were mystified knowing they were native Galileans and yet speaking in their native tongues. But not every one near those who understood them, had understood the disciples as it was not in their foreign language for why they mocked, saying that Peter & the disciples were drunk.
So you cannot apply that notion to Acts 2 when not everyone understood them and assumed they were drunk.
As for Acts 10; Gentiles being numerous foreigners in that company, would have the gift of tongues in different languages to those around them as a sign to any unbeliever still in their ranks.
Second is a foreign human language which requires an interpreter that the hearers may hear and be edified.
When spoken in the assembly, yes, since the whole point of the gifts is to profit all of the body of Christ. In outward ministry, God is speaking unto the unbelievers as a sign to the unbelievers.
And the third is NOT God speaking to humans, but humans speaking to God in a tongue "that no man understands" which is NOT a human language, his spirit is speaking to God (1 Cor. 14:2). So how does this fit into your view?
Not the context of Paul's message which was to exhort believers zealous of spiritual gifts to seek the gift of prophesy over all spiritual gifts from the get go since 1 Corinthians 14:1 and began to compare why prophesy is better than tongues because tongues is not a stand alone gift as testified in the OP. He repeats this emphasis in 1 Corinthians 14:12-13 & 1 Corinthians 14:26-27 but somehow modern day tongue speakers walk away as if tongues for private use is the gift to seek after when that was not the gift Paul was exhorting believers to seek after at all through out that chapter.
God's gift of tongues is for speaking unto the people for why it cannot sound like Pagan's supernatural tongues as found in the world before Pentecost.
Historical evidence of pagan's supernatural tongues as gibberish nonsense.
Pagan Practices | History of Tongues | Ecstatic Language!
Quoting from link "Ecstatic language was a common form of worship in pagan temples.
i It was well established in Ancient Byblos (1100 BC). Plato (429-347 BC) mentions it as a phenomenon in his time. He tells us that a person under divine possession received utterances and visions that the receiver did not understand.
These utterances were sometimes accompanied by physical healing of people present. Virgil (70-19 BC) tells us that the Sibylline priestess, when in prayer, united her spirit with the god Apollo and spoke in strange tongues.
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charismatic delusion: PAGAN TONGUES
Quoting from a second link as another source: "The oldest account of tongues goes back as far as 1100 B.C. to the Byblos Osiris cult. Tongues have been used by the Tibetan monks, certain north American Indians, the halide Indians of the pacific northwest, the aborigines of Australia, the aboriginal peoples of the sub arctic regions of north America and Asia, the corianders of the ands, the dyads of Borneo, the Chaco Indians of south America, shamans in the Sudan, Siberia and Greenland, and in various cults (voodoo in Haiti, zoo in Ethiopia, tango on the west coast of Africa, sago in Trinidad; many of these with rituals centered around spirit possessions. The Gnostics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Quakers, Shakers, Seventh-day Adventists, Christian Scientist, and the W. Church of God all employ tongues.
John P. Kildahl’s concluded in his 1972 study “The Psychology of Speaking in Tongues” that "from a linguistic point of view, religiously inspired glossolalic utterances have the same general characteristics as those that are not religiously inspired." Glossolalia then is a purely "human phenomenon” and is “not limited to Christianity nor even to religious behavior." (Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements by Spittler, P. 340)
Felicitas D. Goodman, the psychological anthropologist and linguist, compared tape recordings of non-Christian rituals from Africa, Borneo, Indonesia and Japan. Goodman came to the same conclusion: "when all features of glossolalia were taken into consideration--that is, the segmental structure (such as sounds, syllables, phrases) and its suprasegmental elements (namely, rhythm, accent, and especially overall intonation)-- there was no distinction in glossolalia between Christian and pagan religions and that glossolalia "is, actually, a learned behavior, learned either unawarely or, sometimes consciously.”
(From "Speaking in Tongues: A Cross-Cultural Study in Glossolalia" by Felecitas D. Goodman, University of Chicago Press, 1972)
Indeed, people are carefully instructed on tongue speaking during the
LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINAR. "
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That is why the apostle John is warning believers not to believe every spirit but test them and the tongues they bring. 1 John 4:2 is the same thing as Paul saying 2 Corinthians 13:5.
2 Corinthians 13:
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
1 John
4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that
confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:
and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
