I have heard some speak in tongues in church and I have done so myself ..?
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I spoke in tongues before and I really knew what it means...\nSpeaking in tongues is something that you want to shout out yet it comes out in other languages because of the Holy Spirit...next time you speak in tongues try to remember what do you want to say in your head...
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Just about any noise the one doing it wants to make...from all that I have heard. There is NO Biblical justification for what is refered to as speaking in tongues, as it is practiced to day, by many sects.\n\nThe gift of tongues was given to the Apostles on the first Petacost. It was the ability to speak in all the languages of those gathered in Jerusalem at that time for that High feast day of the jews. That is all there was to it.\n\nIf one dose begin to speak in tongues it will be in a known language. If there is no one there to interprt then the one speaking must stop and keep quiet.
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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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I'm sure that there have been very small pockets of Charismatics throughout history, but in my studies I have observed that the major Charismatic movement occured in the 20th century.  A Doctor at Dallas Thelogical Seminary did a study of Church history and could not find ONE occurunce of indiviuals speaking in tongues in the early (post-apostolic age) church.  I would not assume that Charasmatics neccessarliy stemed from Protestantism.  Where I live, in Houston Texas, one of the largest groups of Charismatics that I know is the "Charismatic Chatholic Center."  The following link has been very helpful to me in regards to the theology of Charismatics.  \nhttp://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cor/dominion.htm\nFeel free to e-mail for further discussion of this topic, as it gives me great joy to talk about it!!!\n\n jr2443@yahoo.com\n\nTake care,\n Don
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yes, i have. a lot. so if i listed all the circumstances we'd be here a while. so i'll give you the situation with a good friend of mine. well, my best friend really. she's dead now (this past march...semi collided with her friend's car). when she speaks in tongues all the time i don't know WHAT she's saying obviously. i've heard that people who speak in tongues know what the subject is that they're talking about but not what they're saying. it's a spirit to God thing that they're not fully aware of. when my friend spoke in tongues the time that stands out the most was while i was trying to do something that was right and it was VERY hard for me. so she was praying for me in the "spirit language" as tongues is also called.
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If you cannot translate what you say and share those prayers with others then its just random gibberish. Most cases of speaking in tongues are fake.
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It seems that they are speaking gibberish, but that they don't know it.  They essentially trick themselves into having this religious experience.  This is not saying that someone CANNOT speak in tongues through the Holy Spirit, but only that if they did, only that the examples we see today do not appear to be actual supernatural experiences.  Every linguist who has studied various individuals speaking in tongues has stated that what is being spoken is not an actual language (not just a known language, but that it isn't language).  There are those also that believe they have the gift of interpreting these tongues.  But, when a recording of someone speaking in a tongue has been brought to several interpreters, the interpretations are not the same.  \n\nPeople can trick themselves into believing they are speaking in tongues, or that they understand these tongues, but when put to the test, these "miracles" do not seem to be miraculous at all.  These people are not bad people, just fooled.
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I was baptized as a baby in a traditional church and as an adult in a Charismatic church.  Next trip to Israel, I may do it again in the Jordan.  Not that I feel  I need to, but just thought it would be nice and honorable to the Lord Jesus.  He did it as an adult.\nI Cr 13;8a\n11-19-6
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Absolutely it is insanity.  Have you ever seen/heard someone speaking in tongues?  It is truly frightening!
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I always was told that speaking in tongues was the evidence, but it was not until I had an experience like described in the bible.  It says in the bible that fire rested on the follower's heads.  My experience was similar, but the flame rested in my heart.  After that I began to change.  I could like, see people through God's eyes, feel his love for them.  All this was with my heart.  It still amazes me how God loves people, all people.  My behavior changed.  My desires changed.  I often have states of bliss where I feel engulfed in love.  I can see why the holy spirit is referred to as the "comforter".  To me this was the baptism of the holy spirit.
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Sounds like someones been dabling in witch craft.  My advice to you, get out of it and give your life to Christ asap
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God also tells us to test the spirit, and I say you were not inspired by God to write this, but maybe inspired by satan himself. \n\nI cannot give you any proof since you are blind/deaf/dumb to the ways of God.
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No. \nSource 1:\n    * 1 Cor. 12:7-11, "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."\n\n    * 1 Cor. 12:29-30, "Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?"\n\nNot all speak in tongues because God doesn't give the gift to everyone.  Speaking in tongues is not THE sign of salvation, but A sign.  If anything, the fruit of the indwelling Spirit of God is listed in Gal. 5:22-23 is the sign of salvation.  \n\n    "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law" (Gal. 5:22-23).\n\nSource 2: Was there a point in time when you surrendered your life to Christ? Was there a moment of brokenness when you recognized that you are indeed ungodly and cannot become righteous by your deeds? Have you invited Jesus into your heart and made Him Lord? Has there been a change so that you are no longer living for the world, but living for Christ. Walking in obedience out of love for God is evidence of salvation. Speaking in tongues is not.
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I don't know why it is called apostolic, but I understand it is a Protestant Pentecostal group.  I think they believe that speaking in unknown tongues is the sign that someone has been touched by God.  My experience of pentecostals in Protestant and Catholic groups has left be completely dazed.  I have seen it, I do not understand it.  I believe it must be experienced to be understood.
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Yes. If you read Acts 2:1-4, on the Day of pentecost in the upper room there the 12 apostles, Mary the mother of Jesus and other women were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues as the spirit gave the utterance. If you read acts 2:39 you'll see that the Holy Ghost mentioned in Acts 2:38 is a promise from God. In Acts 10:46 Peter was preaching to Cornelius and his family, while Peter was preaching Cornelius and his family was filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues.\nBack in the summer of 1998, in Fayetteville,NC at the First United Pentecostal Church I received the precious gift of the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues. Yes, speaking in tongues is a sign that a person does have the Holy Ghost.   That promise is still available today.
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NO\n\nIt was the day of Pentecost 33 C.E. Weeks earlier, Jews and proselytes from at least 15 regions of the far-flung Roman Empire and beyond had packed Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. On that day, thousands of them heard—not in confusion, as those at ancient Babel did, but with understanding—ordinary people filled with holy spirit proclaim the good news in numerous languages spoken in the empire. \n\nJesus’ disciples could probably speak common Greek, the popular language of the day. They also used Hebrew, the language spoken at the temple. However, on that Pentecost day, they “astonished” their diverse audience by speaking in the native languages of those people. The hearts of the listeners were touched by the vital truths that they heard in their mother tongue.\n\nAmong those ‘speaking in tongues’ today are Pentecostals and Baptists, also Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians. Jesus said that the holy spirit would ‘guide his disciples into all the truth.’ (John 16:13) Do the members of each of these religions believe that the others who also “speak in tongues” have been guided into “all the truth”? How could that be, since they are not all in agreement? What spirit is making it possible for them to “speak in tongues”?\nIn the first century, when Christians ‘spoke in tongues,’ what they said had meaning to people who knew those languages. (Acts 2:4, 8) Today, is it not true that ‘speaking in tongues’ usually involves an ecstatic outburst of unintelligible sounds?\n\nIn the first century, the Bible shows, congregations were to limit the ‘speaking in tongues’ to two or three persons who might do that at any given meeting; they were to do it “each in turn,” and if there was no interpreter present they were to keep silent. (1 Cor. 14:27, 28, RS) Is that what is being done today?\n\nThe Bible does indicate how long the ‘gift of tongues’ would be a part of Christian experience. According to the record, this gift and the other gifts of the spirit were always conveyed to persons by the laying on of hands of the apostles of Jesus Christ or in their presence. Thus, after their death and when the individuals who in that way had received the gifts died, the miraculous gifts resulting from the operation of God’s spirit must have come to their end. Such a view agrees with the purpose of those gifts as stated at Hebrews 2:2-4.
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I am Apostolic myself.First of all don't let people judge you.You said you were new to going to church,thats the way they need to treat you.The Bible says in Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them,Repent,and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins,and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."So first off you need to repent and be baptized in Jesus name if you haven't done that already.It is necessary to have the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.The Bible says we must be borned again of the water and of the spirit to enter into the kingdom of God.I know its hard to understand if you never been around it,but just because you don't understand it don't knock it ,because blaspeme against the Holy Ghost is the only sin Jesus want forgive.If you ever want to email questions concerning Apostolic your more than welcome to email me. roxie054@yahoo.com