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1 Corinthians 14:39 "forbid not to speak with tongues"!
Speaking in tongues is very clearly biblical. So definitely, we can’t forbid it, although most false churches do.
But is speaking in tongues required?
1 Corinthians 12 (Entire chapter.)
Many Pentecostals claim that chapter 12 is talking only about a gift of tongues and not about the first evidence of salvation and that those are 2 entirely different things.
Although they are correct that a person could possibly speak in tongues without having “the gift of tongues” as far as having a one time experience, no one can present a scripture saying that speaking in tongues is absolutely required at any point of salvation.
No one can present a scripture saying that speaking in tongues is the only evidence/proof of salvation.
The best that they can do is to present selected/isolated verses that say that someone spoke in tongues when they got saved.
But they ignore verses where people got saved without any mention of speaking in tongues.
They claim that they still spoke in tongues but that the bible doesn’t mention it every time that someone spoke in tongues. That’s a baseless claim, because there’s no verses declaring that all people must speak in tongues immediately upon receiving The Holy Ghost, or that it’s required for proof of salvation.
Regardless of what Pentecostals say about 1 Corinthians 12, this chapter is extremely important to the topic of tongues, regardless of when the tongues are spoken, it’s clear that God manifests Himself in different people in different ways.
The answer to every question in verses 29-30 is obviously “no”.
Therefore very clearly speaking in tongues is absolutely not required.
Verses 9, 28 and 30 all mention healing, which leads us to Mark 16 where it also speaks of both tongues and healing.
Mark 16:17-18 These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Pentecostals try to use Mark 16 as proof that all saved people speak in tongues. But does all saved people pick up serpents/snakes? Drink poison and not be harmed? Heal people? Obviously not! Very clearly none of the things listed are required, but rather only possibilities.
Acts 2:38 Doesn’t mention any requirement of speaking in tongues immediately upon baptism or salvation.
Same with John 3 “You must be born again”.
Same with Romans 6 in connection to baptism and salvation.
Acts 16:30-34 Baptism with salvation without tongues.
John 20:22 The disciples received The Holy Ghost without speaking in tongues.
Jesus himself didn’t speak in tongues when He was baptized, nor at any other time. When He rarely spoke Aramaic, He knew that language, therefore wasn’t “unknown tongues”.
The other evidences/proofs of The Holy Ghost = Galatians 5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control, against such things there is no law."
Ephesians 6:18 Pray in the spirit on all occasions. Pentecostals claim that this is talking about praying in tongues, but there’s nothing in the entire book of Ephesians about speaking in tongues. So that’s only a belief/claim, which can’t be supported by scripture.
I’ve known people who spoke in true tongues who didn’t always pray in tongues on all occasions. But they always prayed in the spirit.
1 Corinthians 14 (Entire chapter)
:14-15 Paul speaks negatively about praying in tongues. Throughout chapters 12 and 14, he speaks mostly negatively of speaking in tongues because of the fact that the congregation in the town of Corinth was too overly obsessed with tongues as are Pentecostals today. He approves of speaking in tongues, but in a much different way than how it’s manifested in most congregations and denominations.
:20-21 is a harsh warning referring back to Isaiah 28.
:20 Notice the words “children” and “mature”, directly related to the warning given in Isaiah 28 about people speaking in unknown tongues.
:34 Women to keep (mostly) silent in the churches (we understand that there’s deaconesses and prophetesses in the bible and that they can speak under the authority of their husbands or pastors.) Yet the majority of people speaking constantly in tongues in the Pentecostal churches are mostly all women, as many as 4-10-20 women all speaking tongues all at the same time (instead of one at a time as Paul instructed), and without any interpretation, ever! Obviously, they completely ignore chapters 12 & 14, as they always push these chapters away when we present them.
I understand that there are exceptions such as on the Day of Pentecost (which the Pentecostals hypocritically don’t observe), in which there absolutely may be a movement of God in which many people are speaking in tongues without interpretation. But that’s an exception. It shouldn’t be every Sunday!
Isaiah 28:1-19 (Referenced from 1 Cor. 14:20-21) (Modern application of these verses, as prophecy is dual, not limited to the first fulfillment of the 1st Assyrian invasion. Paul himself made the connection of Isa. 28 to tongues in the New Covenant era.)
:1 LXX says drunk without wine, which is exactly what the Pentecostals teach. And this verse is in the context of false preachers, “hirelings”, and pride, exactly as we find in the Pentecostals.
:11 God sending the Assyrians to speak in an unknown language/unknown to the false followers of God. This isn’t a “good” speaking in tongues. But rather a judgment, even though these tongues are truly sent by God.
:13 Falling backwards is also a judgment from God. Every time in the entire bible that someone fell backwards, they were being condemned by God.
:13 “be taken”, exactly what they pray for (taken away, rapture birds eating their flesh. Or first taken away captive by the invaders.)
:15 “by falsehood of hope be protected” = pre-tribulation rapture.
:15, 18 “covenant with the grave/death” = false belief/teaching of the pre-tribulation rapture which will result in their destruction and participation in Assyrian holidays of Christmas and the Christ-mass (“mass” being a Catholic sacrifice/communion of blood) funeral wealth on their doors, “the Christmas ghost”, the Christmas “spirit”, and Easter/Astarte/Ishtar cemetery sunrise services, etc.
In conclusion, we definitely accept true speaking in tongues when it’s true and real and from Jesus. But we shouldn’t and can’t require it from any person, or try to force it down people’s throats as do the Pentecostals. There are many ways of manifesting God’s spirit and proving that we are saved. It’s not limited to speaking in tongues. God is bringing a big surprise to those people who obsess about tongues, and bring to them the Assyrian strange tongue, and yes those people will be “taken away” as they hope and pray for in their covenant of death. Their Assyrian god, Bashar Assad, will come for them.
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