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There are two major views within community of Christendom relative to the nature of these tongues.
The Pentecostals contend that the gift of tongues constituted type of heavenly language that consists of a series of unintelligible sounds unrelated to normal human speech.
By way of contrast, others argue with much greater force, that the gift of a tongue was simply divinely imposed ability to communicate gospel of Christ in human language that the speaker had not been taught by ordinary education process.
If we let Bible explain itself, unquestionably the tongues of this text=ordinary human languages. The apostles were supernaturally endowed with the ability to speak these languages, though they had never known them before.
It is sometimes claimed, though, that whereas the tongues of Acts 2 were ordinary human languages, elsewhere in the New Testament ( 1 Corinthians 14) "tongues" were ecstatic utterances, that is, mysterious sounds unknown to anyone except to the speaker and God. The evidence, however, from the Corinthian context demonstrates otherwise.
Consider the following points with reference to the data in 1 Corinthians 14.
The tongue of this context was a gift that provided edification and instruction (v. 14, 19).Mere inarticulate sounds do not. In a church assembly composed of various nationalities, a Christian was forbidden to use his tongue-gift before an alien audience unless someone was present who could "interpret." (vv. 5, 13, 27-28). The Greek word for interpret is diermeneuo, which normally means to translate from one language to another.
As we conclude, we must emphasize this fact. The Scriptures teach that the gift of tongues was to cease with the completion of the New Testament canon. Those who profess to speak in tongues today reveal a woeful inconsistency. In mission training schools, they must teach their missionaries to speak in tongues of those nations they seek to evangelize demolishes need for tongues.
(2) The gift of speaking in tongue.
There are two major views within community of Christendom relative to the nature of these tongues.
The Pentecostals contend that the gift of tongues constituted type of heavenly language that consists of a series of unintelligible sounds unrelated to normal human speech.
By way of contrast, others argue with much greater force, that the gift of a tongue was simply divinely imposed ability to communicate gospel of Christ in human language that the speaker had not been taught by ordinary education process.
If we let Bible explain itself, unquestionably the tongues of this text=ordinary human languages. The apostles were supernaturally endowed with the ability to speak these languages, though they had never known them before.
It is sometimes claimed, though, that whereas the tongues of Acts 2 were ordinary human languages, elsewhere in the New Testament ( 1 Corinthians 14) "tongues" were ecstatic utterances, that is, mysterious sounds unknown to anyone except to the speaker and God. The evidence, however, from the Corinthian context demonstrates otherwise.
Consider the following points with reference to the data in 1 Corinthians 14.
The tongue of this context was a gift that provided edification and instruction (v. 14, 19).Mere inarticulate sounds do not. In a church assembly composed of various nationalities, a Christian was forbidden to use his tongue-gift before an alien audience unless someone was present who could "interpret." (vv. 5, 13, 27-28). The Greek word for interpret is diermeneuo, which normally means to translate from one language to another.
As we conclude, we must emphasize this fact. The Scriptures teach that the gift of tongues was to cease with the completion of the New Testament canon. Those who profess to speak in tongues today reveal a woeful inconsistency. In mission training schools, they must teach their missionaries to speak in tongues of those nations they seek to evangelize demolishes need for tongues.
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