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But please... This is not that type of thread, it is a research thread and we are looking for strictly a "cause and effect" question and answer scenario.
So please respect my wishes and as hard as it will be, lets keep the Dogma aspect out of it and work on just answering the questions outlined for a scientific record.
Originally posted by Wingz
(1) What age did you first personally experience one of these events.
Originally posted by Wingz
(2) What were the physical feelings you had before, during and after?
Originally posted by Wingz
(3) Did someone else have to translate your event?
Originally posted by Wingz
(3a) And if so, how accurate do you feel their translation was?
Originally posted by Wingz
(4) Do all members in your family also speak in tongues?
Originally posted by Wingz(4a) If so, does it only happen when your in church or can happen anytime (please list examples).
Originally posted by Wingz(5) Are you still mentally conscious (in your own right mind) when your having one of these events?
Originally posted by Wingz
(6) What is the longest amount of time you experienced in one of these events?
Originally posted by Wingz
(7) Are there any aspects that you are aware of during these periods (IE: smells, sounds, buzzing in the head, etc.)
Originally posted by Wingz(8) Have you ever been hurt (emotionally, physically, mentally) during or after an event? (IE: Falling to the ground, headaches, loss of sight/sound/thinking, etc.)
Originally posted by Wingz
(9) If you were to change your faith and belief structure, do you think you would still receive these events? (Follow-up; If you have changed your belief system, do the events persist, are they different, please expand).
Originally posted by Wingz
(10) Have there ever been any other strange events that were associated (or thought to possibly be associated) with your (or someone else's) event? (IE: lights dimming, people around you had ringing in their ears, objects physically moved, visions or visual aspects occurred, etc.)
Originally posted by jon1
Hi Wingz.
Interesting set of questions there but before i attempt to answer any of them, let me explain the reason why tongues is used by myself.
I speak in tongues mainly when i pray alone. Why, well i use it as a way of expressing my feelings to God. Let me explain.
P.S. I will try to answer your questions in order tomorrow as i have things to do now..
Originally posted by PreTribGuy
I realize you are trying to conduct some type of research, but you aren't going to get a fair "sampling" to come to a conclusion. Your questions are phrased from an acedemic perspective and that "leaves me out".
The reason it leaves me out is because you (seem) to be looking for "natural" answers about the Spirit of God and that just ain't going to happen:
In other words... your questions are asked in such a way that it precludes those who have experience from answering. (At least me, anyway.) The questions you ask are either errant (from a Biblical standpoint) or irrelevant (from a Biblical standpoint).
You've set the entire thread up (in my understanding) to ask people to talk about God without talking about the Bible. I don't have much to say about tongues...outside of the Bible.
(1) What age did you first personally experience one of these events.
(2) What were the physical feelings you had before, during and after?
(3) Did someone else have to translate your event?
(4) Do all members in your family also speak in tongues?
(4a) If so, does it only happen when your in church or can happen anytime (please list examples).
(5) Are you still mentally conscious (in your own right mind) when your having one of these events?
(6) What is the longest amount of time you experienced in one of these events?
(7) Are there any aspects that you are aware of during these periods (IE: smells, sounds, buzzing in the head, etc.)
(8) Have you ever been hurt (emotionally, physically, mentally) during or after an event? (IE: Falling to the ground, headaches, loss of sight/sound/thinking, etc.)
9) If you were to change your faith and belief structure, do you think you would still receive these events? (Follow-up; If you have changed your belief system, do the events persist, are they different, please expand).
(10) Have there ever been any other strange events that were associated (or thought to possibly be associated) with your (or someone else's) event? (IE: lights dimming, people around you had ringing in their ears, objects physically moved, visions or visual aspects occurred, etc.)
These are devout Christians that for one reason or another have some other "things" or "events" that seem to happen while they pray and "speak in tongues".
www.bible.org...
The word glossa appears in the Greek New Testament not less than fifty times. It is used to refer to the physical organ of the tongue as in James 3:5; once in reference to the flames of fire shaped like tongues (Acts 2:3); at least once in a metaphorical sense when referring to speech as in the statement, “my tongue (speech) was glad (joyous)” (Acts 2:26). As far as I understand the remaining usages of the word it always means a language.
When our Lord predicted the gift of tongues (the only mention of tongues in the four Gospel records) He said, “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17). The adjective “new” (Gr. kainos) can only mean they were going to speak in languages new to them, that is, languages they had not learned or used until that time. If I say the Russian language is “new” to me, I do not mean that I never knew there was such a language, but rather its use by me is new to me because I can neither speak it nor understand it when I hear others speak it. On the other hand the German language is not altogether “new” to me because I can both read and speak it with a small degree of understanding.