What does it mean to pray in tongues of angels?

[Dave Slayer]

What does it mean to pray in tongues of angels? Did Paul speak in tongues of angels? What is the meaning of the following passage?

1Corinthians 13:1 ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

 

[follower of Christ]

What does it mean to pray in tongues of angels? Did Paul speak in tongues of angels? What is the meaning of the following passage?

1Corinthians 13:1 ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

I personally believe that Pauls point is simply that it doesnt matter what language he would speak in that without love it is without meaning.
I personally dont see anything in his statement that presents that he or anyone else actually did speak in these angelic tongues.

 

[Imagican]

1 Corinthians 13
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

You will note here that it is NOT the 'tongues' that is being focused on, but CHARITY.

11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

And HERE is the 'truth' in the matter of 'tongues'. Offered as plainly as anything could be. When I was a 'CHILD' I SPOKE AS A CHILD, I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD; but when I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY 'CHILDISH THINGS'.

Paul is plainly offering that those to whom he wrote had insisted upon REMAINING as 'children' in their coveting of those things that were immature. Instead of 'growing UP in Christ', they had remained stagnant in their FIRST steps. Choosing to covet that which brought about SELF edification when the WHOLE POINT of BEING a 'follower of Christ' concerns the WELLFARE of OTHERS instead of SELF.

The Corinthians desired to continue to experience the FIRST sensation 'felt' upon the INTRODUCTION of Christ. So, what they were DOING is attempting to REGAIN these 'feelings' each time they gathered. Tongues was but ONE way in which this attempt was being perpetuated.

And Paul offers that it is TIME to 'grow up'. To PUT AWAY their 'childish mentality' and become MATURE in Christ.

Question: What LANGUAGE would angels SPEAK IN?

Answer: The UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF GOD, (which IS LOVE).

Question: Does God HAVE 'A' LANGUAGE? If so, what IS IT?

Since Hebrew was spoken by HIS Chosen People, it would stand to reason that IF there IS a 'language of God' it would be Hebrew.

But, the reality is that IF God were to SPEAK to man, it would be understood no matter WHAT language the PERSON spoke.

Blessings,

MEC

 

[Cornelius]

When you speak in tongues , you speak in either 1) Tongues of men (people can understand what you say , like a foreign language that you cannot speak by yourself)

2) Tongues of angels. Here nobody understands. Your spirit is praying and only God and angels understands what you are saying.

 

[Imagican]

When you speak in tongues , you speak in either 1) Tongues of men (people can understand what you say , like a foreign language that you cannot speak by yourself)

2) Tongues of angels. Here nobody understands. Your spirit is praying and only God and angels understands what you are saying.

Please show the EVIDENCE of this statement that there is ANY language that ONLY God and Angels understand.

Blessings,

MEC

 

[Cornelius]

When you speak in tongues , you speak in either 1) Tongues of men (people can understand what you say , like a foreign language that you cannot speak by yourself)

2) Tongues of angels. Here nobody understands. Your spirit is praying and only God and angels understands what you are saying.

Please show the EVIDENCE of this statement that there is ANY language that ONLY God and Angels understand.

Blessings,

MEC

1Co 13:1 If I speak with the tongues,,,,,, of angels,............

 

[lovely]

I think the 'Tongues of Angels' has some kind of Jewish history behind it. I am going to try to find it. The Lord bless all of you.

 

[Imagican]

I think the 'Tongues of Angels' has some kind of Jewish history behind it. I am going to try to find it. The Lord bless all of you.

You may be right. But I BELIEVE that Paul simply spoke in metaphor showing the USELESSNESS of ANYTHING done WITHOUT charity.

Blessings,

MEC

 

[lovely]

MEC, I agree that Paul was using superlatives here to stress his point, because Corinth adored tongues. And they should have, because they were an amazing miracle of God. John Gill has some research about this, and he says that 'tongues of angels' would have been considered the most excellent speech, even greater than the gift of tongues to men, because angels could speak every language when in human form, but could also speak the 'speech of the heart' a pure language to one another. So LOVE is even greater than the 'tonges of angels". That should tell us what an amazing miracle God's love is toward us, in us, and between us.

Here's a snippet of the quote and the link. The Lord bless all of you.

"and of angels;
not that angels have tongues in a proper sense, or speak any vocal language, in an audible voice, with articulate sounds; for they are spirits immaterial and incorporeal; though they have an intellectual speech, by which they celebrate the perfections and praises of God, and can discourse with one another, and communicate their minds to each other; see (Isaiah 6:3) (Daniel 8:13) and which is what the Jews F17 call,


``(blh rwbyd) , "the speech of the heart"; and is the speech (they say) (Myrbdm Mykalmhv) , "which the angels speak" in their heart; and is the "pure language", and more excellent than other tongues; is pleasant discourse, the secret of the holy seraphim--and is (Mykalmh xyv) , "the talk of angels"; who do the will of their Creator in their hearts, and in their thoughts:''

http://www.studylight.org/com/geb/view. ... &verse=001

 

[Imagican]

Interesting and exellent post. Much of what I have tried to offer is in the 'spirit' of this same concept. That IF there is a 'language of God' it would BE LOVE.

Thanks again,

Blessings,

MEC

 

[lovely]

Amen that, MEC! That's the bottom line.