[BibChr]

Strictly speaking, I'd say they didn't ban speaking in tongues.

They may, however, have banned babbling incoherently and calling it tongues.

Dan
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[Fairview]

They may, however, have banned babbling incoherently and calling it tongues.

Bingo.

I've been to some charismatic worship services, both Protestant and Catholic. Although I can certainly accept that the Lord might, as an expression of His grace and power, give someone the ability to pray in German or Urdu or Navajo, what I've heard is people saying, "abadababadababadabibadaboobada" and saying that this was some ancient language unknown to modern scholarship. Uh, no. If you're feeling especially in touch with the Lord while you're doing this, fine, but don't pretend you've been the recipient of some miraculous knowledge from God.

[Aliska]

There was a man who laid hands on me at a prayer meeting, and I started speaking "something". He was John Wesley Fletcher. He is the man who introduced Jessica Hahn to Jim Bakker. I could write a book about what I was involved in. Most of them are dead now. One woman I knew who later died of a heart attack had prayed across the table from a man for protection against his wanting to have sex with her once they got to her home. He dropped dead in front of her at the restaurant of a heart attack. It was eerie all the things that happened in those days.

Catholics didn't speak in tongues until they imported it from a Protestant prayer group somewhere out east.

I think the original tongues among the early Christians was understood as a real language, although there is some confusion about it in Corinthians. Corinth was heavily saturated with pagans who spoke glossallia which is not the same as the genuine tongues. St. Paul said "tongues will cease". Some of the early fathers of the church a couple of centuries later said the gift had disappeared. Some of the source info is not on the net any more that I can find.

I think it is evil for these people to intimidate people into babbling or telling them they are not saved if they don't speak in tongues.

Also, I would warn anyone to be careful who you allow to lay hands on you and pray over you. I told everyone in my family to say away from it. So far they have.

[Quix]

I think that

THE BEST STRAIGHT TALK ON TONGUES FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH AND THE CHURCH AGE . . . WAS ST PAUL WRITING EXHORTING CHRISTIANS ON VARIOUS THINGS . . . TONGUES AMONGST THEM:

1 Corinthians 14:5
I would that you ALL spake with tongues but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

Of course, typically, congregations, denominations and inviduals that prefer to disobey Paul's exhortation in the Scripture above about tongues, also do it about prophecying. Kind of a mind-set stuck on naysaying, it seems, to me.

[blue-duncan]

When my sons were little by their constant fooling around they made me speak in tongues, along with rocking back and forth with my hands on my hips like Stevie Wonder.