There is absolutely nothing mysterious about Biblical "tongues" - and there is only one type - when referring to something spoken, they are nothing more than real, rational language(s); usually, but not always, unknown to those listening to them, but always known by the speaker(s) - it’s their native language (in some cases, it is a language the speaker has learned). _Nowhere_ in the Bible is modern tongues-speech advocated or evidenced. ‘Tongues’ (read, *‘languages’* ) - the divine gift, is the God given ability to effortlessly learn to speak and be understood through real-language barriers. It is not xenoglossy, nor is it the self-created non-cognitive non-language utterance of modern tongues-speech.
1 Corinthians 14:2,14 makes it clear that sometimes, tongues is speech that no one understands. If it is something to be spoken to the assembly (it isn't always, hence the praying in 14:14) then I Corinthians 14:5 makes it clear that interpretation is necessary. Acts 2 shows it can sometimes be a miraculous manifestation. People will try to classify tongues as always following one particular example, but that isn't the case and those passages never say "tongues always looks exactly like this". Nowhere does the Bible say it is always in the native language of someone present.
There is absolutely nothing mysterious about Biblical "tongues" - and there is only one type - when referring to something spoken, they are nothing more than real, rational language(s); usually, but not always, unknown to those listening to them, but always known by the speaker(s) - it’s their native language (in some cases, it is a language the speaker has learned).
_Nowhere_ in the Bible is modern tongues-speech advocated or evidenced.
‘Tongues’ (read, *‘languages’* ) - the divine gift, is the God given ability to effortlessly learn to speak and be understood through real-language barriers. It is not xenoglossy, nor is it the self-created non-cognitive non-language utterance of modern tongues-speech.
1 Corinthians 14:2,14 makes it clear that sometimes, tongues is speech that no one understands. If it is something to be spoken to the assembly (it isn't always, hence the praying in 14:14) then I Corinthians 14:5 makes it clear that interpretation is necessary. Acts 2 shows it can sometimes be a miraculous manifestation. People will try to classify tongues as always following one particular example, but that isn't the case and those passages never say "tongues always looks exactly like this". Nowhere does the Bible say it is always in the native language of someone present.