Is Tongues-Speaking in Churches Today the Same as What Happened on Pentecost?
No, on Pentecost, the believers spoke in real languages. Each speaker could find someone in the crowd who understood exactly what he was saying. The tongues-speaking in churches today is mere babble. No example that has been recorded and analyzed is an identifiable language; nor does it have the properties of a language. It is a psychological phenomenon known as glossolalia. Almost anyone, believer and nonbeliever alike, can be taught to do it. Indeed, the priests or priestesses in many pagan religions have, in their rituals, used ecstatic speech similar to what is heard in modern Pentecostal and charismatic churches.
