What Does the Bible Say About..Disproving Speaking in Tongues?
I can’t give you scriptural proof against “speaking in tongues.” I can, on the other hand, show you scriptures that show that people spoke in tongues. I must point out that when the Bible talks about speaking in “tongues” it is talking about speaking in human languages that the speaker did not learn in the normal way. It does not refer to speaking in some unidentifiable language or string of linguistic gibberish. Read, particularly, Acts 2, which is the first recorded instance in the Bible of the phenomenon. There it explains that each person who heard the apostles heard their own language, not some unknown and unknowable language. The modern concept of “speaking in tongues” is generally that of ecstatically stringing together a bunch of syllables from one’s own language and calling it an unknown language. Linguists have pointed out that such a tongues speaker never uses syllables from any language except those with which he is familiar. That is, a native English speaker who knows Russ
