To all but christians: Do any of you have the gift of tongues?
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Speaking in tongues is nothing. An atheist can do it easily. You just let go, and out it comes. If you don't believe me, I can assure that a Minister was convinced that I was doing it. It is a normal phenomenon that anyone can do, by "just letting go".  Nothing miraculous about it, I assure you.
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You receive the holy spirit when you ask for it ...you know you have it when you speak in tongues while praising God
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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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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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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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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?
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Yes I do.   It is in the Word of God.  Also Jesus, the disciples, as well as, the other apostles did it as well.  It was done as a commissioning of service.   I Timothy 4:14 says do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic messsage when the body of olders laid their hands on you.  Over and over in the New Testaments we are given accounts of the 'laying on of hands'.  Some were healed, delivered and set free.  So if the Bible says it, that settles  it for me.    May God Bless
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are you speaking in tongues?
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Talking and praying in "Tounges" is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is a gift that the Apostles recieved at Pentecost after Jesus ascended into heaven to sit at God's right hand. They recieved this gift from God when they recieved His Holy Spirit.\n\nThis gift is used by many Christians today as a means of communicating in the Spirit directly with God. Because we are hampered spiritually by our flesh and obstucted by our minds (the place where Satan does ALL of his real damage), God has provided us with a mean's to express those things that only our spirits know or understand but nonetheless need to be said. There is a complementry gift of "Interpretation of Tounges".\n\nMany Christians believe that these gifts were only given to those who formed part of the early church, that they were special gifts given to help the followers of Christ in the early days and effectively died off later.\n\nMy personal belief is that this gift never died off at all, that true Spirit filled believers are given the gift of Tounges when they recieve God's Holy Spirit and that they are only now begining to put it to use again.\n\nA good question would be, Why Now, Is there some special need, as was the case in begining times?\n\nAct 2:4\nAnd they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
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Honestly?  No.  I have had a wonderful anointing most especially when I first received the Holy Spirit.  When this happened I was of course a believer, but I was not convinced that this whole 'baptism in the Spirit' thing was for real.  I've heard all the arguments against and hadn't heard many for, so was quite skeptical.  But the Lord knows what He is doing and arranged for me to receive of Him in a unique environment.  It was a private little Bible study and the participants were people from 'colorful' backgrounds.  Some would let a bad word slip from time to time, some smoked; how could these people minister the Lord to anybody?\n\nMy pastor had scheduled a speaker to come preach on the 'Filling of the Holy Spirit' and it just so happened without my asking or knowing anything of it, that he was scheduled to speak a week and a half after I'd been at that Bible study and had been encouraged to receive the Holy Spirit.  They'd laid hands on me and began to pray in tongues as well as English and being convinced that nothing was happening I began to get very concerned that they were full of Hooey.\n\nThen the guest speaker came to our church and preached every night for most of a week and had people come forward to receive the Spirit and not the same thing happened but it was similar.  So I began to doubt my church and pastor were on the right track.  But the last night that guest speaker spoke, he said the most common sense thing I've ever heard a  preacher say, "If you're not sure if you've received the Holy Spirit, or that this isn't real, just ask God to confirm it, or deny it."  God is faithful and He will make what is good and right your desire.  And He makes what is bad and wrong undesirable, but this only happens by spending time with Him.  \n\nWell, that made so much sense, I couldn't refute it.  So, I went home and began to pray for confirmation if it was of Him, and if it wasn't to put me in a church where I could be encouraged to seek Him in the right ways.  I prayed for a couple of hours and when I was frustrated at the lack of an answer, I got up and began to study the Bible. (it had become such a habit by that time I didn't know what else to do)  But when I opened the Bible, the first verse my eyes fell on were illumined, not literally but mentally my mind was opened to understand many ways this verse applies.  As an individual, it applies to me personally in my freedom and responsibility, as a man it applies to my role in society, as a head of household it applies to my leadership roles, as a worker and so on to the leaders of nations.  The order and simplicity placed such a peace in my heart and the knowledge that this was designed by the only true God, a God who loves each and everyone of us personally...  I was speechless, yet crying for joy, and laughing at the difficulty I'd had with understanding His order.  I had my confirmation!  \n\nIt wasn't until many months later that I understood why God wanted me to receive from those smoking and cussing Christians.  He wanted me to know that if He can use them to minister to me, He can use me to minister to others, because I too am an imperfect Christian.  After all, God used a donkey in the Old Testament to talk to one of His people.\n\nBack to your question, I've seen others receive the Spirit in such a powerful way as to be laying on the floor receiving a spiritually healing work from the Lord, still others have told me of the mighty rushing wind, and one more told me of a cleansing fire, but I have not felt the 'electric shock.'
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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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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.
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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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I have.\nIt is wonderful. \nAny prayer prompted by God is a prayer God wants to answer.( repeated from a radio ministry)\n\nSome people regard speaking in tongues EVIDENCE of having the Holy Spirit. \n\nYahoo! Answerers \n\n\n\nBe careful of what fisherman is fishing from you. Or which fisherman is fishing for you.
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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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According to the Pentecostal denominations, we believe that when God comes in to dwell in your heart, he will give you the evidence of speaking in another tongue. This is evidence for you and for those around you. The Bible says in Acts 2:38 that this is a gift. In Romans it says it is one of the musts to get into heaven. Either way, it is a wonderful thing to receive. All you have to do to receive this gift is repent, be baptized in Jesus name and you will receive this gift. You don't actually have to be baptized before you receive it. I received the gift of the holy ghost before I was baptized. If it doesn't come the first time, keep trying, you will receive it. That is promised to you in the Bible. :)
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Check out my answers....most of them don't have those phrases and I am a Christian. I do use the Bible as a reference for some questions that I answer.