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NASB | Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:4 And they were all filled [that is, diffused throughout their being] with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues (different languages), as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out [clearly and appropriately]. |
Subject: Speaking in Tongue |
Bible Note: Hello, Mark. "I feel good about the gift of speaking in tongues." ...... That's OK, I suppose, if it makes you "feel" good. :-) ..... As for me, Mark, I feel neither good nor bad about it, but struggle to know what the Bible actually teaches about it. In my economy, as I've tried many times in these pages to show, how I "feel" about Bible truth isn't worth "a bucket of warm spit," to use the graphic description of John Nance Garner's assessment of the vice-presidency. ...... As a staunch cessationist, I do not hold to speaking in tongues in our time, believing that the practice along with other "miracle gifts" such as healing ceased with the end of the apostolic age. I believe that God can and still does perform miracles today, but that the Holy Spirit no longer uses individuals to perform miraculous signs. I believe that cessationism is scriptural; otherwise, I would not subscribe to it. I further believe that the glossolalia as practiced today never did have its exact counterpart in the apostolic church. ....... The Forum archives are already well stocked with posts on tongue speaking, and I recall no resolution of the divisive issue having ever been found, so I see no point in stringing the subject along interminably. I see no scriptural reason to assume that the person who speaks in tongues is brought any closer to heaven thereby, or that the person who does not speak in tongues is cast any farther away from heaven. Mark, while we may disagree here and there on certain points of doctrine, I do not think that the divide is so wide or so deep that we cannot reach across the chasm and extend to one another the hand of fellowship. --Hank |