ArchivedSpeaking in Tongues ???I have addressed in detail the issue raised above in my posts in the Christian Debate Forum: "FEW WERE SAVED BY WATER" "CRITICAL IDENTITY OF BAPTISM" "ROMANS 10:9,13" "While Peter yet spake these these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord..." (Acts 10:44-48) The experience my former Hindu friend had was identical to what the Gentiles experienced in the quoted verses above. Yes, he was baptized immediately after the service in the name of Jesus Christ. Also in the above account there were "many that were come together" verse 27 (ie more than the 2 or 3 allowed as you stated)who received the baptism of the Holy Ghost at the same time. If the Holy Ghost can fall on the "many" there why would it be any different for the Holy Ghost to fall on 80,000? And there is no mention of a message in tongues with interpretation in this account. You have confused the gift of "divers kinds of tongues", mentioned by Paul in 1 Cor 12:1-10 with the evidence of Spirit baptism. In church meetings the gift of tongues is used to give a public message, and it is to be interpreted, and is for the edification of the church. Since this gift can be misused in public, it needs proper regulation (1 Cor 14:23-28). Not all believers exercise the gift of tongues, which is different in function from tongues given by God as the initial witness of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Notice there is also a "gift of faith" which is a special operation of faith used in the assembly when the need is required. That "gift of faith" is different from a believer's personal faith just as the "gift of tongues with interpretation" is different from tongues of the Spirit baptism. Paul said, "Forbid not to speak in tongues" (1Cor 14:39) and "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all" (1Cor 14:18). Notice also Peter "COMMANDED" them to be baptized - it was not optional. Of course Jesus never spoke in tongues - the Holy Ghost had not yet been poured out. What a ridiculous thing to say. Of course my friend repented of his sins. What do you want? - a signed and documented confession of the list of all the sins he ever done? After I prayed for him at the workplace I fully explained to him about the plan of salvation. He had several days to confess his sins to God before coming to the church. What one confesses before God is private between them and God. The proof he truly was repentive is the fact he was able to receive the Holy Ghost. "Taking God at His Word" is to be a doer of the Word and not a hearer only. "My mother and my brethren are these which hear the Word of God, and do it" (Luke 8:21) "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear." (Isaiah 28:11,12) "In the law it is written,WITH MEN OF OTHER TONGUES AND OTHER LIPS WILL I SPEAK UNTO THIS PEOPLE; AND YET FOR ALL THAT WILL THEY NOT HEAR ME, SAITH THE LORD." (1Cor 14:21) |
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