Featured The Early Church on Speaking In Tongues

...Under Demonic influence...since the psychologist might have been ignorant of the spirits.

 

Ooooooorrrr! It is a made up and ungodly attempt to heighten ones own emotions based purely on experience that can be concocted from within ones self. This is what I call pure emotionalism. Personal experience and emotion takes the place of true worship. It is idolatry. Worshiping experience and emotion.

 

The people that I have personally dealt with, became possessed during the seance we call "tongues".

 

I have no idea what that means.

 

Then you have not spent any time planting a church in.South Chicago.

 

Well you are welcome to be as cryptic as you want. I will leave you to your misery.

 

The original post was self-explanatory.

 

Here is my understanding FWIW, Tongues died out towards the end of the 1st century certainly by the death of the Apostle John. In the 2nd century, there was a sect that emerged which wanted to "get back to that old time religion" named the Montanists where Tongues became an emphasis, eventually, the Montanists were absorbed into the Catholic Church.

Not sure if this helps or not? But you might want to look it up, if you are still interested--grace and peace to all

 

Originally Posted by John of Japan View Post
Every linguist who has researched glossalalia has come up with the conclusion that it is gibberish and has not the structure of a genuine language.

William Samarin researched modern tongues extensively, finding that they had no syntax or semantics, that they were "characterized by strings of usually simple syllables that are not matched systematically with any semantic system" (The New Charismatics, by Richard Quebedeaux, p. 202).

Wayne Oates, in "A Socio-Psychological Study of Glossalalia" (in Tongue Speaking in Biblical, Historical and Psychological Perspective), concluded that "Distortions of speech characteristic of early childhood are submerged as a child matures, but these distortions reappear in glossalalia when an individual tries to verbalize long-repressed religious convictions for the first time; he reverts to an early stage of communicative development" (ibid, 201).


CORRECT!!!