Am I the only one who thinks Speaking ( babbling) in tounges is insulting to Christians?

Question

Yes I believe this happened in the bible but is it really happening to "Special Christians" who are filled with the holy spirit? Have you heard the clucks and stutters that come out of their mouths? Why does this happen to only a select group of Christians? Why not Catholics, Lutherans. Are we LESS then Christian because we do not cluck?

I referred to it as clucking because I feel they are taking what happened in the bible and bending it the way they wish to perceive it. I was told by the church doing this that if I could not speak in tongues I didn't hold favor with the holy spirit. So since I could not cluck and didn't have hair past my behind I was looked upon as going to hell. I went back to mass and saw no chickens lol!

Where did I say It could not happen now? I am not insulting the holy spirit...I'm insulting the church who says they are so high and mightly that only they can cluck. If they were really speaking some language or in tongues I would praise them. They are fake.

Answer 1

Speaking in Tongues was given to the Apostles and disciples in order to reach people whose languages were unknown to them...so they could communicate the Gospel to other nations...

And when they did speak in tongues...there was always someone there to translate what they were saying so as not to cause confusion....


I am not sure what tongue people are speaking today when they begin "babbling" as it were....I have witnessed this only once, and it certainly made me uncomfortable, but I cannot say if it was legitimate or forced by an active imagination...

There are some who have been said to speak the angelic tongue...which obviously we would not understand and could certainly be considered babble to those without understanding...but if there is no edifying property, or purpose to it, then I cannot believe it is proper speaking in tongues as the Bible describes it.

My understanding of speaking in tongues would be like this: I go to Ethiopia...I cannot speak the native dialect...God grants me the ability to speak their language and I share the Gospel with them in their own tongue...thereby glorifying God all the more in their eyes by this ability.

Otherwise, it seems very superficial and harmful to fellow believers, and to the faith.

Take Care and God Bless.

Edit: All gifts that God gives us are to glorify Him, to be used in ways that are edifying. The people Christ healed were known to be crippled, or deformed since birth so there could be no doubt about the truth of the healing. He healed lepers...whose bodies were literally falling apart. Our gifts, such as tongues would only be given with specific purpose to glorify God. If there is no reason to speak tongues, no need to share the Gospel with a group who do not understand the language...then how is this edifying and glorifying God?

Answer 2

Speaking in tongues is a very important component of some people's faith. True, my church doesn't practice it (although there's a charismatic movement among some parishioners, but speaking in tongues is definitely not practiced during regular services). However, I'd really hesitate to insult the religious practices of other Christians by calling it "clucking" and making fun of it. I don't like it when people make fun of my church's style of worship, so I don't want to do that to anyone else. I've visited a number of different churches where people have spoken in tongues, and I respect their right to do so, if they feel that it brings them closer to the Holy Spirit. I have a friend who speaks in tongues, and I would never cut him down for doing so.

Answer 3

Tongues was ALWAYS in a known language, and was a sign meant for the non-believers.
Consider Pentecost, when Peter spoke and everyone heard him speak in their own language. It was during a festival time, and people from all over were in Jerusalem. Many different languages there.
These modern day people consider it to be a "private prayer language, or the tongues of Angels."
There is no basis to believe this from the Bible, I think. Yet, they seem to find it in there.

Answer 4

Speaking in tongues means a known language and their will also be some one to interpret it if in church or else they must be silent . There is also the tongues of angels which no one knows ,., but its not the gibberish you hear at some places . The book of acts explains this when the crowed heard the apostles speaking in many different tongues they all understood

Answer 5

No, you are not the only one who thinks it is insulting. The account in Acts is clearly a true gift of the holy spirit - Those who spoke actual languages that were foreign to them. Babbling incoherently is insulting to anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence. The phenomenon is less than 100 years old, as the American Pentecostal sect were the first to devise this deceptive practice.

Answer 6

I am studying to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses and in the bible, when Jesus sent his holy spirit down to the people waiting in the room, they WERE speaking in tongues. But not the way people are doing it now. I have no idea where that came from. When the Bible spoke about the people speaking in tongues, they started to speak different LANGUAGES amongst themselves. That's what it was. And it was comprehensible. Not that babbling and shrieking stuff. It's actually kinda scary.

Answer 7

I have seen someone talking in tongues before, it was freaky and looked bad to me. I understand why you would think the way you do. I don't think they are really talking different, it is just made up.They are not special, they do that to make others mad. I don't believe in any of that stuff now, I seen the light and I don't believe in the bible **** anymore. Now that I don't believe in it I feel a lot better about life and myself. A lot of people talk down about others in religion to, but don't get down on yourself because you can't do what they are doing. Just think of them as people who are trying to act like they are more special. We are all human and no one is more special then the other, I would even think of people that do get in the spirit to be freaks, people that have something wrong with the brain because that is not normal. Hope I helped somewhat.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

who told you it only happened to special christians?that is not true,
Babbling it is not,although I do agree all of it is not God but the genuine gift of the spirit is real,but no place in the bible does it say if you do this you are special,every one is special to God and the gift of speaking in tongues is exactly what the bible says ( a gift)

Answer 10

you may not realize it but your insulting the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues is just that a gift....Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
and Jesus never changes.........Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. ......so why do you think because it was 2000 years ago it cant be now,,.....and this scripture is why other denominations and don't speak with the gift and why it bothers you, remember this is all scripture.1Co 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.