The Gift of Tongues
Repost from my website which is going away. Tongues: Distinguishing Revelation, Ecstatic Utterances, and a Foreign Language Introduction A person receives the Holy Spirit when they place their trust in Christ as savior. The redeeming work of the Holy Spirit logically precedes a person's proclamation of faith. One cannot have true faith with out a transformed nature. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to the church for the mutual benefit of the body of Christ, should not create a disorderly worship atmosphere and should not subvert our mental capacities in favor of emotional ecstasy. Human Experience Social scientists and linguists have studied the phenomena of speaking in tongues. The modern tongues movement is not actually the speaking of a foreign language, as seen in Acts chapter 2, but an ecstatic utterance. People in almost every religion practice some form of ecstatic utterance and it is a common human experience. I have heard unbelievers practice ecstatic utterances for...