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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK.  I'll give this a try.

I think spiritual gifts refer directly to relationship with God and spirituality.

Speaking in tongues can sometimes be inspiring to people who watch it but my guess is that most of the time it's better if the spiritual messaging is in a language with words the listener can understand/embrace/act upon.   That's why ecstatic/speaking in tongues churches are more of a niche variant in the Christian tradition.

To me, I read the 1 Corinthians 14:6 passage as saying: "If I'm speaking in tongues, how will I get God's message communicated to you, the listeners?"  However a person who gives sermons might still feel very blessed to have lots of ecstatic/speaking in tongues/vision experiences.   (That reminds me a lot of Catholicism and baroque art.)

Does that help?

I think if a computer programmer works on a website you could say they are deploying God-given talents, but spiritual gifts...probably not...

Maybe if you do extra things like special effects, background music that plays while you're using the site, etc.

If you are very interested in speaking in tongues, academics have researched it.  They have researched the sounds people make (whether similar to mother tongue) and whether the utterances have syntax (trying to figure out if there are words and sentences in the flow of speech).

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PP above.  Now I see there's an alternate reading of the Corinthians passage...maybe you feel you are being commanded, by example, to use your coding skills to support your practice of faith and influence others?  Is that why you are asking?  I guess it is a bit ambiguous.

I think you can go with the advice of the person above who has experience with both.  But...if I were trying to understand the Bible and there was ambiguity, I'd look for people who could interpret the context directly from the language of the oldest versions available.

Pretty sure nobody was contemplating computer programming at this time in human history.

So OP, why do you ask?  Are you struggling with a call to action of some type?

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