Here we go again!!!
Why can't we just believe and trust in faith in what the Holy Spirit has revealed to each one of us personally, and not disrupt the unity of the brethren?
Why is it those that say they speak in tongues are the first to start an argument, is that the evidence of the love of the Holy Spirit in you???
As has been already stated, Paul INSPIRED BY THE HOLLY SPIRIT asked a rhetorical question to the Corinthian church that was abusing the gift, "do all speak in tongues?" the question implying the answer, NO, ...that is the purpose of the rhetorical question!
I have many friends, Godly men of God, men used mightily by the Lord that have a prayer language, however we never hear it in public, ...I'm soo tried of hearing this false doctrine that when someone is filled with the Holy Spirit they will pray in tongues, this heresy didn't even exist in the Church until the Azusa Street Revival in 1906, ...and after yesterday I will have to deal with two different groups of youth in the church, those that think they
are speaking in tongues, but are still clearly living in sin and those that will ask why wasn't I, why didn't the Holy Spirit give me tongues? The former group will have their faith shipwrecked when reality and the Truth finally sets in and the latter's, their faith is already shipwrecked!!!
And you are trying to tell me that is the same loving Heavenly Father of Jn 3:16, Paul, again by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit was correct in calling the abusers of the gift of tongues unspiritual and babies in Christ. 1 Cor 3:1
Why does it always have to be your way or else?
I apologize for my anger, but these super spiritual that mutter and peep Is 8:19 are never at a prayer meeting, never at a Bible study, never volunteer to help clean the church and never volunteer to help with those that are hurting or in need.
I hope and pray this thread is locked immediately so that we don't show our dirty laundry to the watching world!
Gene