is speaking in tongues really possible?

Answer 1

Not Biblical tongues. Read Acts 2, what is being done today has no comparison with what happened in the Bible. That was a miracle, what they do today anyone can do. Try and get someone who believes in it today to go and speak to someone in a language they have never learned and find out how many can do it. I can tell you ahead, none of them can.

Answer 2

Anyone can babble nonsense that sounds as if it has a language -like structure. Comedians do it all the time fluently and without stumbling. It is just another piece of charlatanism practiced by manipulative people to influence others.

Isn't it perfect that it's "tongues" -not a real language like Aramaic or Greek, which might be understood and actually carry some meaning of use to the listener. What is the point of them babbling when it can convey no decipherable meaning to anyone else. What is any god's purpose in presenting the audience with gibberish? If he's trying to tell you something and he's omnipotent, why all the static? Wouldn't your mother tongue be a reasonable expectation? Why not really impress with Mandarin or Cantonese? If uncle Herb who's never been out of red-necksville was recorded announcing the end of the world in Tertullian Latin I'd be impressed.

Whose tongue is it meant to be -men from Mars?

If I told my doctor I was in touch with supernatural beings and could talk in a language not of this planet he'd put me on medication and place me in a rubber room.

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” --Sir Richard Burton

Answer 3

Speaking in tongues is the most talked about phenomena in Christianity. Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement has brought speaking in tongues to the forefront, and these branches of Christianity are without doubt the fastest growing segments of Christianity. These movements are impacting the world even more than the reformation did.

Yet with all the talk about speaking in tongues, few understand what it's all about. It is the least understood subject among believers. People will be surprise to find that the Bible mentions speaking in tongues thirty-five times. That is a lot, so this subject should not be cast lightly aside as unimportant to the Church. God does not fill His book with things of minor importance.

Many people who have never spoken in tongues speak as though they're experts in this field, when in reality they teach only from theory.

Who should know more about tongues: those who speak in tongues or those who don't? Well, shouldn't we learn from those who do speak in tongues!? Since I do speak in tongues, I feel that I can bring scriptural wisdom with experience in this article. This column will clarify common misunderstandings and show the importance and benefits of speaking in tongues.

Answer 4

Speaking in tongues was a gift given to first century christians so that they might preach to people in different lands, where they did not know the language. Today that ability is not necessary.

Answer 5

No, the reward of speakme in tongues most effective existed within the time of the Apostles. It served a motive than. It used to be intelligible speech that folks from one of a kind languages might realize.Acts two:four,eight-eleven. When the final of the apostles died, which used to be the apostle John the ones items ceased to exist. a million Corinthians thirteen:eight-10. That that's entire or best is the church coming to a factor of non secular adulthood. And additionally the Bible is entire. My condolences for you Mother's passing away, cross out to you and your household. May Jehovah relief you.

Answer 6

It's rubbish. Speaking in tongues is speaking in foreign languages, not the nonsensical babbling they do in churches nowdays. That American lady who had the stroke and ended up speaking French even though she had never learned French is speaking in tongues.

Answer 7

Just to add a note to the others speaking in tongues is scriptural and for today. Of course the devil hates it and the people who so adamantly are under his control, so they hate it too. Satan cannot understand what is being prayed, so he hates it. All the gifts of the spirit are for today.

Answer 8

Glossolalia is commonly called "speaking in tongues". While Charismatic and Pentecostal Christians claim to practice glossolalia ('speaking in tongues') as a spiritual language of prayer, praise and thanksgiving to God, other Christians disagree, claiming that such spiritual abilities no longer occur. Skeptics dismiss these cases as simply being in a state of trance, self-hypnotism or religious ecstasy. It is notable that in Charismatic/Pentecostal Churches there is often a state of heightened emotionalism which may, in the view of skeptics, itself give rise to instances of glossolalia (what Christians in those churches often refer to as speaking in tongues).

Answer 9

“Love never fails. But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”—1 Cor. 13:8.

That gift was done away with, anyone who thinks they are speaking with a gift from God is not, it is more likely demons imparting this power to mislead people away from the true religion.

Answer 10

Yes indeed! It is done my some Eskimo tribes, Satanists, Mormons(often) and some farther out Christians who use it to make two classes of believers. Just what Jesus did not want to happen.