Is there any benefit speaking in tongues ?

1 Cor. 13:1, 8: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a sounding piece of brass or a clashing cymbal. Love never fails. But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease.”

In the first century, the ability to “speak in tongues” gave impetus to the international work of witnessing that Jesus had commissioned his followers to do. (Acts 1:8; 2:1-11; Matt. 28:19) Is that how those who “speak in tongues” use that ability today?

In the first century, when Christians ‘spoke in tongues,’ what they said had meaning to people who knew those languages. (Acts 2:4, 8) Today, is it not true that ‘speaking in tongues’ usually involves an ecstatic outburst of unintelligible sounds?

-What was speaking in tongues?

When the first century congregation was growing, God gave them gifts through the holy spirit. One of these was speaking in tongues.

Acts 2:3, 4 say, "And tongues as if of fire became visible to them and were distributed about, and one sat upon each one of them, and they all became filled with holy spirit and started to speak with different tongues, just as the spirit was granting them to make utterance."

-Did speaking in tongues have a purpose?

Acts 2:6 says, "So, when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language."

People were speaking in different languages, but what was the purpose?

Acts 10:46 says, "For they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God."

They were preaching to all of these other people who didn't speak their language. They did this to glorify and "magnify" God.

The "speaking in tongues" that occurs today in some churches could not be the same thing that happened in the first century. Why? First, when people speak today, their words are gibberish and babbling.

Second, 1 Corinthians 13:8 explains a very important thing to remember.

"Love never fails. But whether there are [gifts of] prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with."

Simply, we're encouraged here to always remember that love will never fail- never ever. In contrast things like speaking in tongues, prophesying, and knowledge will fail. The Bible says clearly that they would be "done away with."

1 Corinthians 14:4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

1 Corinthians 14:13 For this reason anyone who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret what he says.

1 Corinthians 14:27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two--or at the most three--should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God.

When the first century christians spoke in tongue it was not the gibberish we hear today (people pretending) Jehovah gave them this gift to speak different languages so that they could speak to all the different languages speaking people at the festival.

I have problems with speaking correctly with the only one I have. I can't imagine have two or more and trying to talk and sounding sane!

Yet this "speaking in tongues" is not of God, and it is not biblical either to make mandatory for the proof of being baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Now I used to wait a charismatic church while I first grew to become a Christian. A lot of expensive, religious individuals in those persuasions – however I grew to become satisfied, from my research of God’s phrase – I think within the presents of the Spirit adding tongues; however the best way I see tongues getting used within the Bible, God offers individuals the supernatural capability to talk languages of the arena that that they had now not previously knownfor the motive of spreading the Gospel. Exactly! The Gospel. That’s what occurs in all 3 examples of tongues that you just uncover in Acts. Acts bankruptcy two, bankruptcy 10, bankruptcy 19. Those are the one examples of tongues within the complete Bible. Paul handiest mentions tongues in a single facet of 1 guide, despite the fact that he wrote 14 books of the New Testament. Matthew not ever mentions it. Mark mentions it one time in which Jesus says you're going to talk with different tongues. Luke not ever mentions it in his Gospel, despite the fact that he does in Acts of direction. John not ever mentions it in any respect in any of his writings, neither does Peter. And so church buildings that make tongues their gospel I think that’s now not Biblical precedence.

For example, each one heard it in their own language according to their kind, but it was spoken through Peter the rock.

One can undertake to understand biblical Hebrew and Greek as well.

For example, there are agapao, storge, eros, phileo.

Other than impressing the impressionable with meaningless babbling, no.