What do you think about speaking in tongues?
357773
It's nonsense. The scripture it is taken from clearly States if there is no one to interpret the "tongues" then don't speak int hem When is the last time anyone could interpret the babble you hear in pentecostal churches?
887308
My friends at work claim that speaking in tongues is "the first initial sign of the filling of the Holy Spirit."  I tell them that I am filled with the Holy Spirit just as they are but I have never spoken in tongues.  After praying about it and doing some research on the subject here is my own personal conclusion:\n\nThe gift of tongues is often counterfeit brought about by peer pressure.  But there is also the genuine gift which is real.  People who speak in tongues seem to think that everyone filled with the Holy Spirit does so.  I disagree.  The gift of tongues is simply given to people who need a sign.  This is clearly illustrated in the New Testament when the disciple, Thomas, doubted that Jesus had risen from the dead.  Jesus offered Thomas his nail peirced hands to touch as a 'sign' to help his unbelief.  To those of us who are fully convinced of the reality of Jesus and His saving work, no 'sign' is needed.  Why offer a jury more evidence if they've already accepted the truth?  So, contrary to tongue speaker's popular belief, speaking in tongues doesn't mean you are more spiritual (the Corinthian church spoke in tongues and they were the most corrupt church in the NT!), if anything, it means your lack of faith needed an extra boost and God was gracious enough to give it to you.
366938
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...
477999
NO\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. (Acts 2:4, 14, 17; 10:44-46; 19:6; see also Acts 8:14-18.) 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.\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”?\n\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?
675264
Jehovah's Witnesses understand "speaking in tongues" to refer to actual preaching in an actual literal foreign language, allowing foreigners to learn God's Word and Jesus' teachings.\n\nThe Scriptures indicate that when the bible writing was complete, such miraculous gifts would cease:\n\n(1 Corinthians 13:8-10) But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease... For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially; but when that which is complete arrives, that which is partial will be done away with.
1004381
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 have been trying also.  Some people after being born again, then have hands laid on them to receive. \n\nI have been told to just ask for it and believe.\n\nAll believers of Jesus Christ should speak in tongues according to the bible.  Satan tried to scare people away from it and maybe think it is weird or something.  It gives Christian more power and the ability to pray to God directly (a hotline to God) without the devil getting in the way.
3289
I had a hard time believing it but I was holding hands with a friend of mine at a prayer group and the leader spoke in tongues and then my frind started speaking in tongues as well!!! I have to say it freaked me out!!!
807381
They are under the delusion that they are "filled with the Holy Spirit" when they are merely filled with emotion, and they think they are speaking with a language of the angels.  But linguists have studied glossolalia, and find NO syntax at all.  It's just nonsensical babbling.  It represents the regression to a pre-verbal mentality.
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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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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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Tongues are for a sign to them that BELIEVE NOT; prophesying for them which believe (1 Cor.14:22 below).  God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor.14:33 below).\n\nWhen the Scriptures (Acts 2:3-11) speak of “tongues”, “tongues” refers to “languages” \n\n1 Cor.14:22 Wherefore tongues (languages – Acts 2:4, 6 below) are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.\n\n1 Cor.14:33  For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa (c))
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speaking in tongues is other languages.In the new testment it talked of speaking in tongues.This was by people who didn`t know a strange language but spoke in someone elses language so they could understand.There is also the babizm-of the Holy Ghost,this is stamering lips.I`ve heard stamering lips when someone gets babtized with the Holy ghost.i`ve also seen people sing in atongue that surely went right to God.
26198
you cannot "learn" to speak in tounges. It is a gift from the holy ghost. Alot of people gain this ability through intercesory prayer. You must believe in and follow our lord Jesus to receive such a glorious gift!
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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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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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It is my understanding that speaking in tongues is the language spoken in Heaven.  It is mentioned numerous times in the New Testament.  Jesus told us He would send a "Comforter" (the Holy Spirit).  Evidence of being baptized by the Holy Spirit is the speaking in tongues.  Someone reading the New Testament will see this.  Speaking in tongues is suppose to "edify" the speaker.