A common heresy and lie from the devil filled Charismatics and Pentecostals is that tongues = gibberish babbling. In reality, this demonic gibberish babbling is the result of devil possession, it’s not of the Lord.
Biblical speaking in tongues were KNOWN LANGUAGES, they were not the demonic gibberish that the Charismatics and Pentecostals do.
Acts 2:1-3 (KJV) – “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.”
It’s worth pointing out that the tongues were “like” as of fire, they were not “of fire” as the demonic Charismatics and Pentecostals claim.
Acts 2:4-5 (KJV) – “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.”
It’s also worth noting that every time the gifts of the spirit are being performed, there are always unbelieving Jews present, the sign gifts were for the Jews (1 Cor. 1:22), Christians don’t need sign gifts because we have the completed word of God.
Acts 2:6 (KJV) – “Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.”
Tongues are LANGUAGES, not the demonic babbling and gibberish that the Charismatics do.
Another common tactic of the Charismatic heretics is to run to verses in 1 Corinthians 12 and 1 Corinthians 14 to prove unknown tongues.
in 1 Corinthians 12 and 1 Corinthians 14, the tongues are still known languages because there is an interpreter there to translate what’s being said.
1 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV) – “To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.”
1 Corinthians 12:30 (KJV) – “Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?”
1 Corinthians 14:13 (KJV) – “Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.”
1 Corinthians 14:27-28 (KJV) – “If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.”
Amen! Tongues are LANGUAGES, not the demonic babbling and gibberish that the Charismatics do.“Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.” 1 Corinthians 13:8
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