Bible Question: At Pentacost, they were speaking in tongues and everyone understood them in their own tongues. Does this not mean that when I hear people "babble" in church, that is not speaking in"Tongues" because no one understands what they are saying. |
Bible Answer: Speaking in tongues is exactly what the apostles were doing. They spoke so that everybody would undestand. Also, to speak in tongues today, is one of the "signs and wonders" of satan. We know this because the Bible specifically says that speaking in tongues would cease. If Christians would take seriously, within context, all of the teaching about tongues in I Corinthians, they could not fail to see that tongues-speaking would cease. 1 Corinthians 13:8-11 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. Paul writes, “Charity (love) never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, THEY SHALL FAIL; whether there be TONGUES, THEY SHALL CEASE; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away” (13:8). There will always be the need for love, therefore love will never drop off. But when the canon of Scripture is made “perfect” (or complete), there will be no further revelation from God, neither in predictive prophecy nor in divinely revealed knowledge other than prophecy. The gifts of “prophecy” and “knowledge” will be entirely unnecessary with the completion of the Scriptures. And “if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book” (Revelation 22:18). |