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	The Gift of Tongues
		The gift of tongues was given to the Apostles during Pentecost in Jerusalem.
		The only time speaking in tongues is a "gift" from the Holy Spirit is when it is necessary to communicate the gospel to someone in your presense who speaks another language.
		The tongues being spoken in most of the churches today, especially in America, are spoken of as a sign to believers; to prove you have a special relationship with GOD.
	www.angelfire.com /mo/PsychicOrSatan/Tongues.html (1110 words)

	The Gift of Tongues
		The gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out to fulfill a need of bringing together all those who will accept the gift of Christ and be part of the royal family as sons and daughters of God.
		The gift of tongues was given to overcome a language barrier.
		Paul places the gift of tongues second to prophesying, "for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
	home.netcom.com /~crmin/csdachurch/tongues.html (1883 words)

	The False Gift of Tongues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A meaningless jumble of incoherent syllables is not the true gift of tongues, for the Biblical gift of tongues is a gift of languages, known languages.
		The fourth mark of the true gift of tongues is that it is not to be used in a church meeting unless it is translated, either by natural means, or the exercise of the gift of interpretation.
		A fifth qualification of the true gift is that women are not permitted to exercise the gift of tongues in the church.
	www.pbc.org /library/files/html/0043.html (4231 words)

	What is the gift of speaking in tongues?
		The Greek word translated "tongues" literally means "languages." Therefore, the gift of tongues is speaking in a language a person does not know in order to minister to someone who does speak that language.
		Tongues does not seem to occur today in the form it did in the New Testament despite the fact that it would be immensely useful.
		These facts lead to the conclusion that the gift of tongues has ceased, or is at least a rarity in God's plan for the church today.
	www.gotquestions.org /gift-of-tongues.html (842 words)

	The Gift of Speaking in Tongues
		They refer to this gift of tongues as being a miraculous language which is used in heaven between God and the angels, or as the language of the Spirit which man may attain in prayer as he is seized by the Spirit and caught up into heaven.
		With this in mind, let's examine the passages dealing with the gift of tongues in 1 Corinthians and evaluate their contribution to the debate as to whether or not these tongues were a known human language, or the unintelligible ecstatic speech of an heavenly language.
		The gift of the interpretation of tongues was a gift separate from the gift of various kinds of tongues (1 Cor.
	www.mountainretreatorg.net /articles/giftoftongues.html (10662 words)

	VBC Position Paper on The Gift of Tongues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The gift of tongues is not an ecstatic utterance
		However, the gift of tongues should be understood as always referring to a miraculously given ability to speak in an actual human language that was foreign to the speaker.
		Some accept the ceasing of the gift of tongues with the early church and claim that the age of the apostles was the former rain of Joel 2:23 and the twentieth century outbreak of tongues speaking is the latter rain.
	www.valleybible.net /resources/PositionPapers/Tongues.shtml (6916 words)

	The Gift of Tongues
		The miracle of tongues was that those who spoke them did not know the language but those who heard understood them in their own language vs.8,11.
		Tongues is the most inferior yet one of the most noticeable of gifts in the church.
		Paul says “not all speak in tongues.” If one is seeking tongues for their own spiritual gift or the evidence of being saved they may be seeking a gift that God does not want them to have as they may become open to a counterfeit experience.
	www.letusreason.org /Pent3.htm (3547 words)

	The Gift of Tongues
		Of all the Christian practices, speaking in tongues is second only to baptism in causing divisions in the body of Christ.
		The tongues described in the Bible are all known and used languages.
		The purpose of speaking in tongues is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus.
	myredeemer.org /foundation/tongues/index.shtml (381 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gift of Tongues (Glossolalia)
		A supernatural gift of the class gratiae gratis datae, designed to aid in the outer development of the primitive Church.
		Since the variety of tongues is attributed to the group and not to individuals, particular disciples may not have used more than their native Aramaic, though it is difficult to picture any of them historically and socially without at least a smattering of other tongues.
		What today purports to be the "gift of tongues" at certain Protestant revivals is a fair reproduction of Corinthian glossolaly, and shows the need there was in the primitive Church of the Apostle's counsel to do all things "decently, and according to order" (40).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14776c.htm (1107 words)

	The Gift Of Tongues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Numerous claims are made these days concerning the 'gift of tongues' and the 'Baptism of the Holy Spirit.' Tens of thousands of believers, and they come from many denominations, profess to have the 'gift of tongues,' the divinely inspired ability to speak in foreign languages they have never learned and often cannot even understand.
		The aim of this paper is not to prove that there is no such thing as the 'gift of tongues:' because there is. Rather, our aim is to warn the church of a counterfeit experience which is currently being accepted as the real gift of tongues and baptism of the Holy Spirit.
		So the gift of tongues is not as necessary today as it was in ancient days; just as the gift of healing is not necessary to a perfectly healthy audience.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /sbs777/vital/tongues.html (2175 words)

	Gift of Tongues in Liturgy
		The use of charismatic gifts, in particular the gift of tongues, is often surprising to people and raises many questions.
		Of the gift of tongues with unutterable groaning, Chrysostom said that this is what the deacon does in the liturgy when he intercedes for the people.
		Although the practice of praying in tongues is new and peculiar to many Catholics, there is a significant tradition of the practice throughout the history of the Church.
	www.sfspirit.com /articles/9906/Article2.htm (1468 words)

	The Gift of Tongues - Part 1
		Folks, looking at this matter from two entirely different viewpoints, the number of times tongues is referred to and the value placed upon tongues by the great apostle Paul, the gift of tongues, we clearly see, was not one of the big gun spiritual gifts during the first 35 years of the Christian era.
		Observations of the gift of tongues and the effects it had on others on the day of Pentecost are quite easy to make, since Luke recorded the events of that day in detail.
		Tongues are a sign to unsaved Jews of the coming judgment of God from which they must be delivered by repenting of their sin.
	www.sermons.org /sermons/sermon50.html (3585 words)

	Tongues, Gift of (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Some have argued that it was merely an outward sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit among the disciples, typifying his manifold gifts, and showing that salvation was to be extended to all nations.
		But the words of Luke (Acts 2:9) clearly show that the various peoples in Jerusalem at the time of Pentecost did really hear themselves addressed in their own special language with which they were naturally acquainted (compare Joel 2:28,29).
		Among the gifts of the Spirit the apostle enumerates in 1 Corinthians 12:10-14:30, "divers kinds of tongues" and the "interpretation of tongues." This "gift" was a different manifestation of the Spirit from that on Pentecost, although it resembled it in many particulars.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/tonguesgiftof.html (176 words)

	Gift of Tongues! Sure Word Ministries!
		I wish that you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
		The Corinthian church was known for its misuse and abuse of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
		The gift of tongues is the only gift of the Spirit that is totally dependent upon another gift regarding it's complete operation.
	sureword.faithweb.com /giftoftongues.html (1364 words)

	The Gift of Tongues - Part 2
		Of the four occurrences of tongues speaking in the New Testament, only on Pentecost and at Corinth is it possible to examine the nature of tongues and to determine whether tongues was a foreign language capability or a heavenly language capability in each instance.
		The gift of tongues was a sign gift that God gave to men and women to use in the presence of unsaved Jews to fulfill an Old Testament prophecy.
		The gift was to be used in the presence of unsaved Jewish people to warn them that God was growing weary of their continued rebellion and would soon bring judgment upon their nation.
	www.sermons.org /sermons/sermon51.html (2687 words)

	The True Gift of Tongues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Our problem becomes: "Is the present outbreak a true gift of the Holy Spirit or is it a manifestation of the false gift of the tongues?" We shall attempt the answer to that question in these studies.
		Tongues is not by any means the important element in the Christian experience that it sometimes is made to appear.
		So it is absolutely essential that, without exception, if the gift of tongues, which is not designed for the church, be exercised in the church, then it must be interpreted, even for the benefit of the one who is speaking.
	www.pbc.org /library/files/html/0042.html (4990 words)

	The Gift of Tongues
		In fact, many teach that tongues is not speaking in a valid foreign language, but speaking the language of heaven.
		The gift was popular in the early church because they were so few at the beginning and their mission was to go to the world.
		The gift of tongues is the sudden ability to speak in a foreign language that is unknown to the person with the gift so that the gospel can be communicated to people who speak that foreign language.
	www.teachinghearts.org /dre17htttongue.html (1583 words)

	Glossolalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tongues, says Paul, is speaking to God, rather than men, mysteries in the spirit (1 Cor 14:2), edifies the tongues-speaker (1 Cor 14:4), is the action of the praying of a person's spirit (1 Cor 14:14), and serves to bless God and give thanks (1 Cor 14:16-17).
		The "sign of tongues" refers to xenoglossia, in which listeners hear their native language spoken by those who have never learned it, by means of divine power.
		The controversy over tongues is sometimes part of the wider controversy between continuationists and cessationists, but sometimes due to differences of opinion regarding the biblical definition of tongues.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Glossolalia (2413 words)

	THE GIFT OF TONGUES
		This is true because it is certain that the "tongues" were a gift from the Holy Spirit seeing how the disciples were not native to any of the Nationalities present or fluent with the languages with which they were now speaking.
		Every use of the word "tongue" or "tongues" in Chapter 14 is from the word "glossa." So it is absolutely clear that Paul was talking about a known language on this earth.
		The gift of "tongues" was not given for the believer, but for the unbeliever.
	members.fortunecity.com /heisrlord/id68.htm (730 words)

	Contemporary "Gift of Tongues."
		The "Gift of Tongues" was needed for the Apostles, so that they could spread the Gospel to different nations.
		By getting the "Gift of Tongues" the Apostles could preach to people in their native language and thanks to that the Church began to spread very rapidly.
		At the time of St. Irenaeus of Lyon in the middle of the 3rd century, "Gift of Tongues" was mentioned as a rare occurrence.
	www.orthodoxphotos.com /readings/true2/tongues.shtml (848 words)

	- The Gift Of Tongues
		This secret wisdom was that God would use the death of Jesus to settle mankind's debt of sin and open wide the gates of heaven to all who choose to enter.
		Without the gift of the Holy Spirit it's impossible for man to comprehend how or why God would do this, because our understanding comes directly from the Spirit of God communicating with our spirit.
		As a teacher you know that Paul cautioned against the indiscriminate use of tongues and other ecstatic gifts, especially in the presence of seekers or when there was no interpreter present to help others understand.
	www.gracethrufaith.com /ask-a-bible-teacher/the-gift-of-tongues (431 words)

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