Could true speaking in tongues simply mean speaking different unlearnt human languages?
Some Christians believe that to speak in tongues refers specifically to God giving a Christian the ability to speak and understand a language that was previously foreign to him. They believe that the non-human-language speaking in tongues of today are not a gift from God, and are a misinterpretation of scripture. On the day of Pentecost, when the apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit, they spoke in the languages of the people visiting Jerusalem from afar. The purpose of speaking in tongues was to proclaim the gospel to these people in a language that they would understand – and many people became Christians that day. Later in the book of the Acts, the meaning of tongues is not discussed. So there is no reason to assume that when Cornelius and his household spoke in tongues, that they babbled an unintelligible non-human language. It is just as likely that they spoke in tongues in the same way that occurred on Pentecost. However, if the purpose of the speaking in tongues was to procl
