Do you believe in "speaking in tongues"?  Why? or why not?
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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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yes\nThere is a lot spoken about tongues all in Corinthians. \nRemember tongues is speaking in another language such as if I spoke in Spanish right now comprenda. It is not babbling.\n\n1 Corinthians 12:8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;  to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit;  to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 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: 11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
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Pentecostals believe that you must be saved by believing in Jesus as Lord and Saviour for the forgiveness of sins and to be made acceptable to God. Pentecostals believe in water baptism as an outward sign of conversion, and that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a distinct spiritual experience that all who have believed in Jesus should receive. Some Pentecostals believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is always accompanied initially by the outward evidence of speaking in tongues. This is a major difference between Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians, who believe that a Christian who is baptized in the Holy Spirit may exhibit other physical signs instead of speaking in tongues. However, most major Pentecostal denominations reject the idea that one is not saved unless one speaks in tongues. Pentecostals also typically believe that the Bible has definitive authority in matters of faith.
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Yes !? Why do you ask ? Have you ? Need more info? Am a pastors wife-might be able to help you! Yes dude you have to be saved to speak in tongues! Have the Holy Spirit to do  that - as the spirit gives the utterance ! you are not saved you can not speak in this way to God ! Only a Holy person can do this =by the leading of the holy spirit! You can go to heaven not all Christians speak in tongues! Not right or wrong thing-YOu will go to Hell if you are not saved Read Romans 10 . What kind of church taught you that. YOu were not going to hell for that dear ! God loves you , Gave his only son that you could be saved! YOU speak in a tongue to talk to GOd-then the devil cant understand what you are saying! When you grow in Christ-the holy spirit leads you to pray, sing in tongues-As the spirit leads you you cant just speak like this dear ! DO you understand? Please get this -  you will not go to hell if you cant speak in tongues! If you want that read  the bible-pray tell God That.
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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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The term originally derives from Acts chapter 2 where the early Christians were gathered together on the day of Pentecost, and were baptized by fire in fulfillment of the prophecy given by Joel in the Old Testament.\n\nMany Christians believe that the supernatural ability to speak in other tongues is the evidence of baptism by fire (also called baptism in/with/by the Holy Spirit.) I do not believe there is enough scriptural evidence to fully support this (as being the ONLY evidence), but thought I should include it, as I think your question mentioned wanting to know the evidence. I think a greater evidence of this baptism is in the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) being manifested, and most importantly, in the ability to effectivly witness to the unique life, death and resurrection of Christ, and His transforming power in your own life.
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Totally agree. although I do believe in the spirit world.\n\nDue to freak weather that can happen in that region there was a sheet of ice on the river that moses parted.  He basically cracked the ice with his staff and it split.\n\nAlso Jesus walking on water was him probably walking on ice.\nOther stories can be explained in a similar manner without the disciples deliberately telling lies or being brainwashed.\n\nJesus in the speak they used during that time to me referred to our sub conscious mind.  Which is obviously a part of evolution and has developed for centuries.  We can probably tap into information that floats around like micro waves radio waves etc we cant see them we just need to try in tune in like mediums do.
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1 Corinthians 12:7-11\nBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.  But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.\n\nYes.  I most definitely believe them.  I have witnessed them.  I have the gift of speaking in tongues.  And you can have more than one by the way.  I wish you the best on your path to God.  I will  be praying for you.  Merry Christmas. :)
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Actually, speaking in tongues is supposed to be a special gift that is only given to some people according to the Bible. Not every Christian can speak in tongues. According to the basic Christian faith, one has to actually want to speak in tongues to be able to do so. No certain type of Christian is given such an ability. \n\nAlso, speaking in tongues can also be dangerous because it can result in the work of the devil because there is no sure way to establish what the speaker is actually saying. It could be a innocent prayer, or it could be an utterance of the devil. Thus, speaking in tongues is not necessarily always good.
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Speaking in tongues comes from the Book of Acts in the Bible, chapter 2. On the day of the Pentacost, fire in the shape of tongues appeared over the apostle's heads and they were able to speak so that anyone could understand them, regardless of what language they spoke.\n\nCharismatic Christians and some others practice a different kind of speaking in tongues, called glossolalia (Greek for tongue-speaking), in which a person speaks in a mystical language, which is supposedly a direct sort of conversation with God, unintelligible to humans.
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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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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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Well, I believe that speaking and interpreting tongues is an attribute of the Holy Ghost, and I don't doubt what happened at all. ;)\n\nI do, however, believe that there is so much more to the Holy Ghost than tongue speaking.\n\nYou asked a very good question, though.
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i'm not sure if i believe in ghosts per say, but i do believe in the spirit world.  \ni do have a story behind it-and you can find it in one of the questions i asked recently.\nanyway, there's alot of people who don't believe in the unknown but i think because they don't want to open themselves up to it.\njust my opinion.
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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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It is the same.\n\nSpeaking in tongues was just one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But bare in mind that when they spoke in tongues everyone heard it in their own language since it was the day of Pentecost and you had Jews from other countries who spoke different tongues. It is not the false speaking in tongues being practiced in some Church's' today.\n\nThere are only three actual examples of speaking in tongues recorded in the Bible (Acts chapters 2, 10, and 19). If we look at these three cases, we should find a clearer picture of this controversial gift. \n\n"When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven [divided] tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." Acts 2:1-4.  \n\n \nFire is a symbol for power. God sent this gift in the form of tongues of fire so they would know that He would empower their feeble tongues in the same way He strengthened Moses to go before Pharaoh (Exodus 4:10-12) and touched Isaiah's lips with a coal from the heavenly altar (Isaiah 6:6, 7).
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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