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For the millions of other Christians babbeling nonsense and deceiving themselves - yes. But I claim to be perhaps the only Christian who can speak a proper language I don't understand. Listen to it at http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/TongueSpeaker
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Well... I'm Chinese, I can speak English very well (sadly, better than some "natives"), and I'm learning Latin.
Uh oh...I think you're in trouble, man. If you read your Bible, you will notice that on Pentecost when the Apostles "spoke in tongues," the "glossiana" you are referring to, they did not speak in a language they did not understand. Read the account again and you will find that they spoke normally, but the listeners heard them clearly in their own language, and everyone understood them.everyone understood them. What would be the point in God granting the Apostles the abilty to be understood by no one, not even themselves?
The modern practice of speaking in tongues is neither Biblicly accurate, interesting, or useful. It's silly and pointless, and more than a little embarassing to anyone with multiple brain cells.
If you were truly experiencing glossiana, you would be able to understand what you say, and so would everyone else, so you aren't "speaking in tongues," my friend.
But there is more bad news, unfortunately. There is one instance that the Bible claims will cause you to speak in a language you don't understand: demon possession.
I NEED A YOUNG PRIEST AND AN OLD PRIEST, STAT!
The guy's own link doesn't help his case very much:
When I was a college freshmen, some tongue-speaking pervs in a cult called The Way International tried to recruit me. But, when I demonstrated that I, an agnostic freethinker, could babble meaningless syllables with the best of them, they left me alone because they thought I was speaking a demonic language. Silly, superstitious twits!
Just had to say, Oolon's book "Just Who Is This God Person, Anyway?" is my favourites book of all time ... Of ALL time ...
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One time i overdosed on insulin and my blood sugar dropped to about 40. I spoke, I knew what i was saying, words were clear in my mind, but what came out was gibberish. I wonder if that’s ‘speaking in tongues’?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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