Questions About The Gift Of Tongues, Etc.

Questions About The Gift Of Tongues, Etc.

1) When the Pentecostals claim to be speaking in tongues do they give a good defense by that they will be speaking in tongues of angels (1 Cor 13:1)?

What those who claim to speak in tongues actually do is in no way akin that the gift of tongues set forth in Scripture. A careful reading of Acts 2: 1-12 reveals the following:

The tongues were accompanied by audible and visible signs from God. The tongues like fire that sat on each of the apostles and the sound like a rushing mighty wind.
Only the apostles were endowed with the gift at that time.
The tongues were unknown to the apostles who had not studied nor learned them. However they were easily understood by those who heard them (see. 2:8).
This enabled the apostles and those on whom they laid their hands and conferred the supernatural gifts to take the gospel to nations whose language they did not know.
When Paul spoke of the tongues of men and angels in I Cor. 13:1, he was making the point that having the gift of tongues without brotherly love meant nothing. He was addressing a problem in the Corinthian church where those with the gift of prophecy were competing with those who had the gift of tongues as to which was the greatest and most important. This is seen in I Cor. 14:1-33). God gave the gift so men could preach the gospel to and save lost souls of other nations, not show off their gift in the home congregation for personal praise and recognition. That angels have a language of communication we cannot dispute. But we have no evidence that anyone, including the apostles ever spoke such a heavenly language. Paul use of the term is hypothetical. "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels..." He means if a man was the most gifted of all in his ability to speak in foreign languages, but had not love for his brothers he was nothing."< BR> * What modern Pentecostals and Charismatics do in the name speaking in tongues is nothing but senseless jibber-jabber. It is meaningless noise. No one understands a word of what they claim to be saying.
2) When were Cherubim created?

John tells us that "All thing were made through him (Jesus the Word) (John 1:2) that would include the cherubim. In Col. 1:16, Paul says that "in him (Christ) were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, thing visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or power; all thing have been created through him..." That would certain include those remarkable heavenly creatures that serve God about his throne.

3) In Lev 19:19 why was it wrong to breed two kinds of animals or sow different kinds of seed as also in Deut 23:9?

This and other laws that seem strange to us were given to the Jews to remind them that they were a "peculiar" i.e., a different people. They worshiped a different God than did their neighbors. As His chosen people, their diet was different than the Gentiles. Their clothes were different... they could not mix fibers. Their farming was different, they could not sow different grains in the same plot. They could not join different kinds of animals in the same harness. These and other such laws were daily reminders that their religion demanded that they be different from and separate from their heathen neighbors.

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