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Originally Posted by Esaias
Could it be Paul is saying that if everyone in the assembly is speaking in tongues and there is no interpretation, then the unbeliever or unlearned visitor will conclude everyone is insane and thus will remain in unbelief? And that therefore everyone speaking in tongues with no interpretation produces the same basic situation as described in Isaiah, namely unbelievers refuse to repent and believe? And that therefore, the assembly should seek to prophesy or at least have interpretation, in order to avoid repeating the typology of judgment found in Isaiah?
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Paul certainly addresses the madness of everyone speaking in tongues all at once without an interpreter and how that will be perceived.
However, when he speaks of the sign to unbelievers and quotes from Isaiah as proof of his point, he merely writes "wherefore tongues are a sign".
He doesn't write "everyone speaking tongues all at once without an interpretation are a sign". He seems to suggest the charismata itself, when in operation, is for a sign to the unbeliever, not the abuse of the charismata, is the sign.