Re: Tongues - Gibberish

In article <446d2156$0$8621$ec3e2dad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Michael A.
Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 18 May 2006 18:24:04 -0700, john w <johnw wrote:

When we note
the very definite ABSENCE of tongues in this century, and for the past
some 1500 years, we look back to the Bible for WHY there have been no
tongues, and we see in 1 Cor 13, that Paul said they would cease, when
"the Perfect came.'

They have not ceased as you suggest.
It still happens when needed.

My Great Grandfather was a Lutheran missionary to China. This was back in
the early 1900s.

When he was traveling to a new village, some bandits attacked him. He
spoke to them and led them to Christ, and they escorted him to the village
he was traveling to, the village where they were from.

When he got there, the people in the village spoke a dialect he did not
know and understand, including the bandits, whom he had no trouble with
when they attacked him. While he learned the dialect, the bandits did his
missionary work for him - so that when he understood the dialect, he
already had a core group to work with.

If you read the book Bruchko - Bruce Olsen led a previously unreached
Indian tribe to Christ. That tribe then went as missionaries to other
tribes, that spoke a completely different language they did not speak -
yet they understood each other.

The gift of tongues is still around, but it is used for the same reason it
was used in the book of Acts. It is used for evangelism.

-=-

A C&MA missionary I heard speak in the 80s - when she came back, she went
to a church where people were speaking in tongues. Some of them were
cursing God in a dialect of Chinese. They did not know they were doing it.
The gift they had was not from God.

Perhaps that is why Paul made it clear that the gift is not to be used if
there is not someone there who understands it. Most recent occurrences I
know of, the person speaking in a language they did not know did not even
know they were doing it - it was used by God for the purpose of evangelism.

These fables are not uncommon

None has been investigated and found to be true

It is all Pentecostal and Charismatic Born Again propaganda.

The Chinese speaking fable is one I have heard in at least six different
versions including one on an aeroplane

The MORMONS use a lot of these sorts of invented stories.
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