"Speaking in tongues" are still in practice today. But I wonder if it is really applicable today. Christians are divided as to its current applicability but are in unison that indeed it happened during the early days of apostles after Christ ascended into heaven. Various authors and scholars tried to explain this phenomenon including qouting "What the bible says" but only to end up with varied opinions.
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I'm approaching this question purely from a biblical perspective. If you'd like something more from a point of view and less scriptural just let me know.\n\nI would point you to 1 Corinthians 12 which gives the apostle Paul's take on the gifts of the Spirit, including speaking in tongues.\n\nHe starts off in verse 1 saying to the "brethren" that he doesn't want them to be ignorant on the matter.  Well, that's good, because apparently the folks at Corinth were very confused about the subject.  \n\nPaul in verse 7 tries to make it clear that every manifestation of the Spirit is "for the profit of all".  Then he gives a rundown of all of the gifts.  \n\nBy the time we get to 1 Corinthians 13, he's made it clear that he thinks that love is the most important gift.  In verse 1, he mentions something interesting though.  He says, "Though I speak with the tongues of men AND of angels..."  So, he draws a distinction between the two. There is an earthly language and there is a heavenly language.  \n\nNow if you take into account the first time we read about the gift of tongues in use, we'd have to go to the book of Acts (Acts 2:1-12) for the incident that occurred at Pentecost. Peter was preaching and though many people spoke different languages, each heard his sermon in his or her own "tongue." That's a practical use of the gift.  However, this was far from what was happening at the church in Corinth. No one could understand what anyone who was speaking in tongues was saying!  \n\nThis is why Paul says in 1 Corinthian 14:2: For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speakth not unto men, but unto God: for no man UNDERSTANDETH him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.\n\nBut he also warns in verses 4 and 6-11, that if you do this you are only edifying yourself. He would rather that you prophesy or teach so that everyone can be edified.  Further, he says that if he was to come speaking to them in other languages, what would it profit them, unless they understood what is being said?\n\nIn conclusion I give you Paul's advice. Earnestly desire the BEST gifts. Those that build others up.  It does appear that the phenomenon of speaking in tongues, at least from a biblical perspective did indeed have a place in the early church, but even then the apostle to the gentiles downplayed it's importance and urged rather that we speak so that we can be understood for the edification of all. This was because Corinth, as many churches still do today, overemphasized and singled out this one manifestation of the Spirit and left the other gifts underutilized.
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Interesting notion, but no, it is because God wants us to come to Him by faith. THEN He will reveal Himself. Sin is what blinds us and makes us deaf to His voice. Remove the sin issue through the blood of Jesus, and communication is restored. The result of which is a natural desire to do His Word and what is right.\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/o44bt
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Meaningless gibberish. That's all that speaking in tongues is.\nIt's yet another example of Pious Fraud. Nothing more.
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...Unfortunately, we can embrace some traditions that may not match up with Scripture.\n...I respectfully disagree with those who use this terminology (ask Jesus into your heart).  The Gospel was explained to me this way, but I don't think it is biblically accurate.  \n...I also do not like nor do I think it accurate to say, "I accepted Christ" - it sounds like God is getting a big favor if you/me "accept Him", when He really accepts us, based on what Jesus has done.\n...Then what is correct?  What I see over and over in the Scriptures is believe - \n...Acts 16:31 - "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved"\n...Acts 13:48 "And as many as were appointed to eternal life believed"\n...Acts 10:43 "Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins." \n...Acts 15:11 "But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."\n...We are saved by His grace through faith in Christ alone.  Ephesians 2:8-9 says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.\n...If someone wants to pray and express to God a need for salvation, I see nothing wrong with that.  I personally admitted to God that I was sinner needing Jesus, and I asked Him to save me and make me the type person He wanted me to be - I was alone, and no one was pressuring me.\n...And I know after that I was much different -I wanted to pray, read the Bible, go to church, and share Jesus with whoever would listen - "things that accompany salvation."\n...Blessings to all.
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Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is best understood by starting with First Corinthians 12:1—14:40. There St. Paul explains that every gift of the Spirit is to benefit the entire Body of Christ. \n\nAny gift can be misused by damaging that body, especially by causing factions (for and against someone or a small group of people). Apparently, that had already happened in Corinth before St. Paul wrote First Corinthians. \n\nSt. Paul teaches that the Spirit’s greatest gift is charity. All other gifts are subordinate to it. See Galatians 5:22 where St. Paul describes nine “fruits” of the Spirit. \n\nSt. Thomas Aquinas concluded that tongue-speaking had happened when God offered it, but it no longer happens. \n\nThe vast majority of confirmed Catholics will never speak in tongues—as St. Paul uses that term. Why? That’s a good question to ask God when you get to heaven. \n\nI am a Christian, specifically Catholic. Most Catholics and other Christians have cooperated with God’s grace in less dramatic but no less effective ways than speaking in tongues. What is primary is using the Spirit’s gifts to build up the Body of Christ.
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People are not often abiding in Jesus, and walking according to the Spirit, and thus their mouth blurts whatever notion they think is worthy of saying ... however, these works are seen and will be exposed to the light to see wether they pass the test of what was wrought in God or the non-sense of one who has lost touch with God when they said it. \n\nWhy do they do it?  \nIt is in accordance with their current condition.\n\nWhat would make them speak what would make life tastier instead of bringing people down?  \nA moment in time when that person is abandoned to the Lord Jesus, and compelled by Him, if they ever become willing to do so.\n\nWhat should we do in the meantime?\nWe endure a million insane comments and let them go right by us ... it only reveals their dire condition ... waiting to see if they ever change their tune, by the Spirit.  \n\nThen, it will be worth the wait!!!\n\nI have a suggestion ... LETS PUT THESE ANSWERS TO A VOTE!
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1 Corinthians 14:2\n\n"For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit."\n\nI speak in tongues. I got it when I was 15. When I concentrate in praying usually it comes out by itself.
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Many people feel this way.  Mainly becuase that is how the church split into denominations in the first place.  There are those that believe if you don't speak in tongues you are not saved.  There are those that believe if you are not baptized you are not saved.  There are those that believe that the Trinity is a false God, etc.  It is also human nature to want to be right and show everyone else that they are wrong (just look at the atheists on this site to know that this is not just a Christian phenomenon).  However, I know that God is never going to come ask me if it is okay to let a certain individual into the kingdom of heaven!
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other tongues are languages there were many who were there that spoke with different tongues,that is why they spoke in tongues they didn`t know to edify those who didn`t understand.\nThe Holy Ghost Babtizes you  and you have an over flowing and that is the tongue of Angels or Stamering lips.I`ve seen people saved and filled up and they just get the stammering lips this is considered a tongue.I`ve had that happen.
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Yes.because Jesus never changes if he raised people from the dead then then he can do it now.If you have been baptized in water in the name of Jesus Christ and filled with His Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and you have repented of your sins then  you are a true Christian and have the authority to do anything through Christ
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The first "Pentecostals" in the modern sense appeared on the scene in 1901 in the city of Topeka, Kansas in a Bible school conducted by Charles Fox Parham, a holiness teacher and former Methodist pastor. In spite of controversy over the origins and timing of Parham's emphasis on glossolalia, all historians agree that the movement began during the first days of 1901 just as the world entered the Twentieth Century. The first person to be baptized in the Holy Spirit accompanied by speaking in tongues was Agnes Ozman, one of Parham's Bible School students, who spoke in tongues on the very first day of the new century, January 1, 1901. According to J. Roswell Flower, the founding Secretary of the Assemblies of God, Ozman's experience was the "touch felt round the world," an event which "made the Pentecostal Movement of the Twentieth Century." \n\nAs a result of this Topeka Pentecost, Parham formulated the doctrine that tongues was the "Bible evidence" of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He also taught that tongues was a supernatural impartation of human languages (xenoglossolalia) for the purpose of world evangelization. Henceforth, he taught, missionaries need not study foreign languages since they would be able to preach in miraculous tongues all over the world. Armed with this new theology, Parham founded a church movement which he called the "Apostolic Faith" and began a whirlwind revival tour of the American middle west to promote his exciting new experience. \n\nIt was not until 1906, however, that Pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention through the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles led by the African-American preacher William Joseph Seymour. He learned about the tongues-attested baptism in a Bible school that Parham conducted in Houston, Texas in 1905. Invited to pastor a black holiness church in Los Angeles in 1906, Seymour opened the historic meeting in April, 1906 in a former African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church building at 312 Azusa Street in downtown Los Angeles. \n\nWhat happened at Azusa Street has fascinated church historians for decades and has yet to be fully understood and explained. For over three years, the Azusa Street "Apostolic Faith Mission" conducted three services a day, seven days a week, where thousands of seekers received the tongues baptism. Word of the revival was spread abroad through The Apostolic Faith, a paper that Seymour sent free of charge to some 50,000 subscribers. From Azusa Street Pentecostalism spread rapidly around the world and began its advance toward becoming a major force in Christendom. \n\nThe Azusa Street movement seems to have been a merger of white American holiness religion with worship styles derived from the African-American Christian tradition which had developed since the days of chattel slavery in the South. The expressive worship and praise at Azusa Street, which included shouting and dancing, had been common among Appalachian whites as well as Southern blacks. The admixture of tongues and other charisms with black music and worship styles created a new and indigenous form of Pentecostalism that was to prove extremely attractive to disinherited and deprived people, both in America and other nations of the world. \n\nThe interracial aspects of the movement in Los Angeles were a striking exception to the racism and segregation of the times. The phenomenon of blacks and whites worshipping together under a black pastor seemed incredible to many observers. The ethos of the meeting was captured by Frank Bartleman, a white Azusa participant, when he said of Azusa Street, "The color line was washed away in the blood." Indeed, people from all the ethnic minorities of Los Angeles, a city which Bartleman called "the American Jerusalem," were represented at Azusa Steet. \n\nThe place of William Seymour as an important religious leader now seems to be assured. As early as 1972 Sidney Ah
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tongues and tongues for interperetation are two very different things.  anyone who is a child of God can recieve the gift of speaking in tongues.  its basically a way to communicate to God straight from our spirit, getting our mind out of the way.  we can also pray about things that we dont know about using the gift of tongues.  it is the Holy spirit inside of us that gives us this unique language.\n\ntongues for interperetation are a whole different story.  while speaking/praying in tongues is  talking to God, tongues for interperetation are spoken to men (women, too)  \nthis is one of the gifts of the spirit, and not available to everyone.  its for those that saturate themselves with God to the point that He speaks throught them directly.  \n\nthe whole thing for either of them is getting your carnal mind out of the way, so that God can be asked to do things he wouldn't be asked to otherwise.  since He is all-knowing and all-powerful, he knows what we need to pray for when we dont.  this is why the Holy Spirit (still God) gives us the unction to pray in tongues, since God can do nothing on earth without being asked.  \n\nif you want some more info, read "why tongues" by Kenneth Hagin or "not drunk as you suppose" by Vickie Shearin.  both cover mainly the topic of tongues as a prayer language, and are very good
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There are gifts of the spirit descirbed in the Bible. Some preach, some teach, some prophesy, some have musical talents, some speak in tongues, etc., etc.  It does not mean you aren't saved.
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speaking in tongues was nothing but speaking in diffirent languages, see for yourself;\nAc 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. \nAc 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. \nAc 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. \nAc 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? \nAc 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? \nAc 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, \nAc 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, \nAc 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God
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Yes they can, but you want to wait until God gives you the real thing. There is a lot out there in Charis-mania and some is real and some is false you just have to discern for yourself if it is real. \n\nAs far as tongues goes, don't listen to naysayers. The Acts 2 account in my opionion was a known language BUT (God can be as diverse as he wants with what he does) I will just give you a couple of scriptures and let you decide:\n\nA second type of Biblical tongues (prayer language?)\n1 Cor 14:2 For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HIM; he utters mysteries with his spirit.\n\nA third type of Biblical Tongues (probably public)\n1 Cor 12:10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
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You can tell with the evidence of speaking with other tongues. "Accepting the Lord Jesus" is not a bad practice, it is only the first step. You have to believe before you receive. I personally believed and then received the holy ghost at a later time. I spoke in other tongues when I received the holy ghost. It is a sign given to unbelievers around you as well as a sign to yourself. Acts 2:38 says "Repent and be baptized, everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you SHALL receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Every time someone received the holy ghost in the Bible, they spoke in an another tongue. The reason this is only mentioned in the Book of Acts is because this is the only book that shows people actually receiving the holy ghost. In every book written before this, the spirit was not given to anyone. The books after were written to those who had received the holy ghost, in other words, the churches.
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The reason for all the different denominations is differing opinion over certain parts of the Bible.\nOne of the biggest bones of contention is speaking in tongues.\nMy Uncle, an ordained Baptist preacher didn't believe in speaking in tongues as it is applied today.\nThe Pentecostal religion is real strong on speaking in tongues.\nThat's just one example.\nRemember religion as we know it today is man made.\nIt's all about faith in  GOD and acceptance of Jesus Christ.