Re: Speaking in Tongues
yoel haalmoni (core@rof.net)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:35:33 -0600 (MDT)
>IAN
>(Ian 4/24) I agree it's funny but it's also sad. I haven't read it
>recently, but it seems to me that in the NT when they talked in tongues,
>they were talking to people who spoke different languages and whoever it
>was speaking was understood by all without interpretters.
>
>TILL
>Acts 2 presents the first biblical account of people speaking in tongues.
>The apostles were all together on the day of Pentecost when "they were all
>filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues" (v:4).
>Their audience was Jews "from every nation under heaven" who had come to
>Jerusalem for Pentecost, and when they heard the apostles speaking, they
>were "confounded," because "every man heard them speaking in his own
>language" (v:6). They were amazed and said, "Behold, are not all these that
>speak Galileans? How heard we every man in our own language wherein we were
>born" (v:7)? Thus, the NT makes it rather clear that speaking in tongues
>was not the muttering of jibberish, as people do today when they "speak in
>tongues," but it was the actual speaking of foreign languages that were
>previously unknown to the speaker.
>
>If anyone can believe that such as this actually happened, please contact me
>about my lakeside property in the Saharah Desert that I am trying to sell.
yoel-
The tongues people like to quote the Corinthians about "tongues of men and
of angels", and claim that they are speaking in angelic language.