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Clericalism and Languages Worthy of Praising God

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It ihas been common to assume that worship or praise of God must come through sacred languages. This may for some be Arabic or Sanskrit, or a myriad of other languages deemed sacred. One might think that Christianity would be immune to this. In Revelation 7:9 After this I looked, and there before me was …

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The Cost of Holy Languages

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I typed in Google about "speaking holy language" and got a lot of websites discussing or arguing or maybe pontificating about the following: Is speaking in tongues (ecstatic speach) a holy language?  <No. ecstatic speach doesn't have the structural qualities of a language so it is not a language-- holy or otherwise.> What is the …

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