talking in tounges?

Question

i've just listened to a radio programe where people claim to be able to talk in tounges which they claim is the divine language of god. what on earth is talking in tounges ment to be and could someone please give me a link to a site where i could hear this. by the way do any christains think that talking tounges is a load of rubish or do you think its for real

Answer 1

Linguistics

The syllables that make up instances of glossolalia typically appear to be unpatterned reorganizations of phonemes from the primary language of the person uttering the syllables; thus, the glossolalia of people from Russia, the United Kingdom, and Brazil all sound quite different from each other, but vaguely resemble the Russian, English, and Portuguese languages, respectively. Many linguists generally regard most glossolalia as lacking any identifiable semantics, syntax, or morphology.[13] Glossolalia has even been postulated as an explanation for the Voynich manuscript.

Psychology

The first scientific study of glossolalia was done by psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin as part of his research into the linguistic behaviour of schizophrenic patients. In 1927, G.B. Cutten published his book Speaking with tongues; historically and psychologically considered, which was regarded a standard in medical literature for many years. Like Kraepelin, he linked glossolalia to schizophrenia and hysteria. In 1972, John Kildahl took a different psychological perspective in his book The Psychology of Speaking in Tongues. He stated that glossolalia was not necessarily a symptom of a mental illness and that glossolalists suffer less from stress. He did observe, however, that glossolalists tend to have more need of authority figures and appeared to have had more crises in their lives.

A 2003 statistical study by the religious journal Pastoral Psychology concluded that, among the 991 male evangelical clergy sampled, glossolalia was associated with stable extraversion, and contrary to some theories, completely unrelated to psychopathology.[14] It should be noted that, as a primarily religious publication, Pastoral Psychology may not be an objective source on this matter.

Nicholas Spanos described glossolalia as an acquired ability, for which no real trance is needed (Glossolalia as Learned Behavior: An Experimental Demonstration, 1987). It is also known as a simplex communication.

Neuroscience

In 2006, at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers, under the direction of Andrew Newberg, MD, completed the world’s first brain-scan study of a group of Pentecostal Practitioners while they were speaking in tongues. The study found that while participants were exercising glossolalia, activity in the language centers of the brain actually decreased, while activity in the emotional centers of the brain increased.

New York Times wrote about the study, and it has been published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Volume 148, Issue 1, 22 November 2006, Pages 67-71.

Answer 2

Talking in tongues began in 33 C.E., when the 120 Christians were assembled in the "upper room." Holy spirit was poured out upon them and they were given the ability to speak in the tongues of the native Jews and Proselytes who had come to Jerusalem about “the magnificent things of God.” People spoke in tongues during that time to preach to people of varying languages. There were always people who could translate what was being said. If there was no one to translate, the person who spoke the tongues was to keep quiet.(1Co 14:22-33 )

The Christian congregation was in it's earliest beginnings during this time, and the Apostle Paul stated that there would be a time where speaking in tongues would cease. (1 Cor. 13:8)

Today, there is no need to speak in tongues, as basically, the Christian congregation is mature, and everyone has the ability to communicate with one another. And many times, when people are speaking in tongues, they have no idea what they are saying.

Answer 3

There are many gifts of the Holy Spirit, and speaking in tongues is only 1 of them. There are two major types of tongues: one is of foreign languages that the speaker has had no exposure to, but are useful for communicating with the listener in his own language, and the second type is a "prayer language" that is not a human language, and can only be translated by another Christian who is gifted by God to be able to do so.

The Bible tells us that if there is no one present in a congregation who can translate that particular prayer language for the benefit of the rest of the congregants, then that person is to go somewhere private, and speak to God one-on-one. If he doesn't, and insists on doing it publicly, then it will, indeed, sound like a load of babbling nonsense.

God gives gifts to his people as He sees fit; no one can order this or any other spiritual gift they might prefer as though the Bible were a Sears catalog, or something. We are not to covet the ability to speak in tongues, even though it is one of the more attention-grabbing ones.

The very shame of it is that the Bible is very explicit about when such a gift should be exercised, and when it shouldn't, and it is a hard headed refusal to obey that leaves the Church looking like it is a repository of kooks.

Answer 4

In some churches, speaking in tongues is considered the proof that one is saved, that one has been filled with the Holy Spirit. In fact, I had a friend who went to one of these churches who was depressed for months because he was unable to do so and thought he was not saved yet.

I hate to admit it, but I did used to speak in tongues. To do so, one needs only to open the mouth and let "words" come out. I gave it up when I realized that, like many other things in religion, tongues was just another evidence that faith can be purely emotional.

In the churches which practice tongues and interpretation, the services are very emotional. I felt great after a service, but by Wednesday I had to go back to get that emotion back. It was as if my faith were gone after a few days as soon as the emotion left.

To find out something about tongues, just do a search for "speaking in tongues." You'll find a lot there, I'm sure. If you search for "glossolalia" you will get things not only about tongues but about babbling as well.

Answer 5

MANY christians think it's a load of rubbish.
The theological problem is (for those who believe it), in the book of Acts, you will see two kinds of speaking in tongues;

1. One, that "could" be said to be gibberish like you hear people doing today, beacuse it mentions needing to interpret it.

2. the other example had one person speaking to a crowd in one language, with the entire crowd (of different language speakers) hearing it in their own language.
I've never heard any believe in tongues be able to explain to me why NOBODY today can do this type!!!
Could it be because it's very hard to fake this trick?
I think so!

Answer 6

What has been stated is only a partial fact. For people to speak in tongues, they are also to have someone of church official that interprets that tongue. This is supposed to make sure that no one can say or do something that is incorrect or improper and against scripture. In the books of Acts, this is explained in detail but you need to read the whole chapter to make sure that you are getting the whole picture.
This is so necessary so that no one takes advantage of others. All tongues are for the edification of the Bible and God. !! This is a must read for anyone that really wants to know the TRUTH about this subject.

Answer 7

Coming from the sub conscious it is probably just verbalized expressions of all the masses of garbage most of these nutters have in their heads which is why it is gibberish. Everyone is in contact equally with the Universal Cosmos / God and these crackpots insist they are something else. They're total head the balls !

Answer 8

Its all garbage. It started around 1900 in the US with the birth of the Pentecostal movement. It is pure hogwash. Unfortunately the Pentecostals and Charismatics have convinced millions of people that talking in tongues is a valid spiritual gift. One of the sign gifts on the day of Pentecost was speaking in other languages, but what we see today is a demonic counterfeit.

Answer 9

People talk a load of rubbish. Even more when claiming to talk in tongues.

Answer 10

This is like , being reborn at an evangalist meeting, break dancing,downing 10 pints of beer in front of your mates ( maybe not that bad),it is 'getting a kick' for attention seeking exhibitionists.Others can follow like sheep, one after the other.