Do you believe that people can speak in diffent tongues?

Answer 1

After they are Filled with the Spirit they can.
Ditto.

Answer 2

I have experienced it two times at a church. One time, I think the person was faking it. It was just gibberish. The other time we went to the alter to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and one person started to speak in a foreign language that was like Hebrew or Arabic. Now that sounded real and the person was not foreign. The Bible says that when someone speaks in tongues, there must be a interpretation or it will not profit anyone. There was not a interpretation for the first one but the second time I heard it, someone immediately gave a interpretation which was a message for the congregation that there was going to be changes in the church. There was, the minister was removed. Speaking in tongues is supposed to be evidence that the Holy Spirit came in. One of the gifts of the Spirit.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 3

I can speak two languages.

If you mean speaking in tongues - that's literally nonsense.

* 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. 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

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

* 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. One of the study's authors is a practicioner of glossolalia and a born-again Christian herself. The study concluded 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.

During this study, researchers observed significant cerebral blood flow changes among individuals while exercising glossolalia, concluding that the observed changes were consistent with some of the described aspects of glossolalia. Further, the researchers observed no changes in any language areas, suggesting that glossolalia is not associated with usual language function.

Answer 4

The word tongues just means languages.

So yes, anyone can speak in a different tongue.

The gift of tongues that God gave was used to spread the gospel to people of different nationalities.

If you'll notice, whenever the gift of tongues was given in the Bible, it was when people of one or more nationality were gathered in one place.

God gives gifts when they are practical and to be used for His glory and the spreading of His gospel.

The tongues of the pentecostal and and charismatic movements is a counterfeit for the real gift.

Answer 5

In the Biblical sense it was done away with after the apostles died out. Today people claim that ability. But remember the reason the apostles had that ability. So people of any language could hear and understand them.

Today on rare occassions that someone does understand the language, the interpretaion is the worst blasphemy, abhorrent speech possible. Certainly nothing from God.

Answer 6

Well, yes, please. I mean, come on, I am writing in English right now, am I not? And it's not my mother tongue. I'm a Francophone, a Quebecer. And I speak bits of Spanish and German, so there, ja, people can speak different tongues.

Of course, I don't know if it's what you really meant, probably not, but that'll teach you to write understandable questions.

Answer 7

Mais Oui, mon Cheri!

Or did you mean as a gift of the Holy Spirit? If so the here's a good article on that question.

http://www.midcry.org/tongues.htm

Midnight Cry Ministries
TONGUES: MY TESTIMONY
by C. Parker Thomas

Answer 8

I've been told that I do when I talk in my sleep. My husband says that he can hardly understand a word that I'm saying! I don't remember talking in my sleep, so that must mean that I'm speaking in tongues - right?

Answer 9

Of course! I do myself. Besides my mothertongue I speak English.