why is speaking in tongues evidence of the infilling of the holy ghost?

Answer 1

Because the bible says that your evidence, you have the holy ghost is when you speak in tongues.

You have gave your Heart, Soul, and Mind to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

Act1:8 But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power and will tell people about me everywhere--in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
the evidence is power not tongues tongues is a gift, a manifestation, like all the other gifts of the spirit.

Answer 3

This is assumed becuse on the day of pentacost(the day that the Holy Spirit fell upon the apostles)they were speaking in several different languages that the people understood.(there were a lot of foriegn Jews there at the time in jerusalem.......)this was for a sign to them that the gospel was from God.
In later times this has been used as a guage that one has truely been filled with the Spirit.Though this is not the case because the apostles and followers were speaking recognizable languages.
Modern speaking in tounges is more of gibberish uttering in my opinion.
This was not what happened in jerusalem back then.
I am not sure who started this gibberish speach trip, but it is very unbiblical.and probably not really real as those who do it would have us believe.

Answer 4

The followers of Christ who awaited the Holy Spirit to anoint them for the work of Jesus to continue, that is that they would receive the same gifts as Jesus had to save the lost, began to speak in other languages on the day of Pentecost.
This gift has been very much misused. Their is a difference between speaking in tongues in your own private prayer language and operating in the greater gifts of the spirit. It seems that Christians display this gift "overly much" to their own detriment as a way of showing that they have the Holy Spirit. When in fact this gift can be imitated by men and women who show very little love and do not have the other gifts - so they stand their waving their hands in the air and speaking gibberish but this does not mean that they have the anointing of God, even if they dance and spin around like a top.
"By their fruits you will know them." Do they have love? Do you feel the Presence of God when a person gives a word of knowledge or revelation? Are people healed and saved? I could go on but enough said. God is real and the gifts are real and we all need to pray they be manifest in our lives that those around us be saved and believe in Christ and have a new relationship with God as Father, that His name be honored, His Kingdom Come, and His will be done in our lives.

Answer 5

Well it comes from Mark 16:17 They shall speak with new tongues.It is one of the signs to prove that one is saved.However and most holy rollers don't know this that is why they put on their little show the last 12 verses of Mark were added centuries later it is just one of thousands of changes that the christian theologians made in order to make the book fit their story line.It is nothing more than mental and emotional entertainment.The only thing it really proves is you are easily influenced by those around you.There is no ghost whatsoever involved it is all man made fairy tale.

Answer 6

Speaking in tongues as a gift from the Spirit serves the purpose of allowing one to share Gods message with others, and is rarely needed in today's world. The grand-standing done in holy-roller churches has nothing to do with Gods Holy Spirit.

This I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm

Answer 7

In babylon the people tried to build a tower to heaven, they thought thats how you could get there, They did this day and night. God created everyone to speak in different tongues, so they would know that that is not the way to heaven. They finally had to stop because they couldn't understand each other, can you imagine what this may of looked like? At first people all thought they were drunk with wine.

Answer 8

It is supposed to be a gift from the holy spirit that only God can hear and when you pray in tongues Satan can't hear or understand what you are saying. Because you know Satan listens to your prayers too that is how he finds your weaknesses.

Answer 9

Because GOD... Who Put The Program Together Says It Is!....(1 Cor.14:14).......We Can Also Pray In The Spirit Which Is Our Spirit Praying to GOD!.......Also Read---(Romans 8:26)............Be Blessed!

Answer 10

The Meaning of Speaking in Tongues
In my travels many persons have approached me with questions about tongues. Some of them ask about its meaning. The term that is used to identify the tongues movement is “glossolalia,” made up of two Greek words, glossa (language or tongue) and lalia (speech). It therefore means speaking in languages or tongues. Glossology is that department of anthropology which has to do with the study and classification of languages and dialects.

The word glossa appears in the Greek New Testament not less than fifty times. It is used to refer to the physical organ of the tongue as in James 3:5; once in reference to the flames of fire shaped like tongues (Acts 2:3); at least once in a metaphorical sense when referring to speech as in the statement, “my tongue (speech) was glad (joyous)” (Acts 2:26). As far as I understand the remaining usages of the word it always means a language.

When our Lord predicted the gift of tongues (the only mention of tongues in the four Gospel records) He said, “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17). The adjective “new” (Gr. kainos) can only mean they were going to speak in languages new to them, that is, languages they had not learned or used until that time. If I say the Russian language is “new” to me, I do not mean that I never knew there was such a language, but rather its use by me is new to me because I can neither speak it nor understand it when I hear others speak it. On the other hand the German language is not altogether “new” to me because I can both read and speak it with a small degree of understanding.

In Acts 2:4 Luke uses a different adjective when he says, “they began to speak with other tongues.” The word “other” (Gr. heteros) simply means that they spoke in languages different from the normal language they were used to. The context substantiates this. Notice the surprised reaction on the part of the hearers—“And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?” (Acts 2:7,8). Every man heard them speak in his own language (Acts 2:6). Here the word “language” is the translation of dialekto from which our word “dialect” comes. The two words glossa (tongue) and dialektos (language) are used synonymously, making it obvious that the disciples were speaking in known languages other than the language native to them. In verses 9-11 the languages are then identified. It was a miraculous phenomenon which enabled the disciples to speak in languages which they had never learned. Here in this Acts passage we have tongues-speaking in its pure and unperverted form as God gave it.