Speaking in Tongues in Pentecostal Churches ️

You're making a big assumption.

There are many stories of people speaking in tongues and someone is present who speaks that language. Miracles have happened and people have been saved.

I have been known to speak in tongues in my sleep. Praying intensely. The person who heard me didn't understand but my first words were "Kurios, Kurios, Kurios!". That should raise eyebrows.

Also your theology is only based on Acts 2. In Corinthians Paul talks about "speaking mysteries in the spirit" and "the tongues of men and angels". There are some who want to explain those verses away but I don't any basis for their arguments. Corinthians is clear and detailed in about the gifts and how they should be practiced.

Something to think about

Fact . Toungs in acts of tbe apostles . Are a different event To THE GIFTS IN 1 CORRINTHIANS CHAPTER 12 AND CH 14
PAUL SPOKE IN TONUGES. MORE THAN ANYONE . DIFFERENT . I USE THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT . TONGUES . INTERPRET AND PROPHECY . AS THEY ARE GIFTS TO THE CHURCH . THEY ARE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT . DIFFERENT TO ACTS .

I did see a vid about a case of an israeli jew hearing an american woman pray in tongues and he said its hebrew

I share my story knowing many will disbelieve, but that is not my business. I must share it! I was a new Christian in 1995 and was steeped in scripture. I was outside by myself by the pool at university, and had just written a letter asking for someone's forgiveness. I felt profoundly free and grateful to God after finishing the letter, and suddenly it felt like rain poured on me and I was weeping and started speaking in this whole other language that was and is easier than English and has no beginning or end. I thought over the years that it might be withdrawn from me but thankfully it never has been. Several years after the initial occurrence, I was an ESL teacher and met students from Israel one afternoon at lunch. Since my tongues sounds like Hebrew, on the spur of the moment right after meeting them I spoke some to them and said, "What does this mean?" Their eyes widened in awe and in unison they said I said, "You said, 'The One is coming who is going to raise everyone from the dead.'" They said it was Hebrew mixed with a language they hadn't heard before, but that's what they could make out of what I said. In awe I spoke more, and they said it was about John from scripture, but that's all they could make out.

I believe some can get a negative perspective about the gifts of the Holy Spirit based on some outlandish things they've seen on tv or even by visiting a church. I can only say that in my extensive experience, when people humbly exercise those true gifts, the result is order and harmony. I think whenever there are moves of God, and the flesh is involved, some people will give it a bad name. And I lament that so often the baby has been thrown out with the bath water. I am not one who believes we all need this gift or that it is a sign of some exalted spirituality—in my experience and those of others I know, it is often given when someone is young in their faith when they are immersed in scripture and the eyes of their heart are really opened to the living God.. It is such a blessing and comfort as a private prayer language, but indeed I have heard many other accounts of it being heard by someone else who speaks/knows a particular language, and it is always about God or praising the Lord is some way. God seems to bring the right hearer at the right time. I have heard of a professor of extinct Russian dialects happening to visit a church and hearing the tongues in on of the sextinct dialects, so very many stories like that. It is a mystery. The gift is a commentary on the Giver, and He knows what we each need. I love Orthodoxy and pray that it become more well-known in Orthodoxy that God is indeed working in this way today. I can only say that the real gifts are indeed being poured out in our day, not from demons or hyped-up emotionalism, but from God's Spirit. And they are precious and impart a new boldness for the Lord. God bless you. :-)

Disputes like this in the body of Christ do not lead to unity. Let love and grace from God the Father and the Lord Christ Jesus abound!

Different types of tounges

Linguists have studied “tongues” for decades and found it's not a real language—just random syllables that mimic the speaker’s native sounds but lack grammar or meaning. It doesn’t match any known language on Earth. It may feel spiritual, but there’s zero linguistic evidence that it’s divine or supernatural—just an emotional, learned behavior within group settings.

It's important to know and understand that when someone receives the Holy Ghost and speaks in tongues, that individual has no idea in what tongue they are speaking. The Bible says they spoke in tongues "as the Spirit gave utterance".

You weren’t even alive during that time. You weren’t there, so how would you know? I have the Holy Spirit , I speak in tongues. I am filled with the Holy Ghost. There’s NOTHING any modern day Pharisee can say to make me doubt that God filled me with his spirit. 🙏🏾

Thank goodness for his honesty.

"This kind of tongues thing bypasses the brain, but not in a good way" hahaha

Simony

I've always been skeptical of it because I'm part of the Nazarene Church. We're a holiness church, not a speaking in tongues type church, even though we love revival and getting noisy in our worship. But we try not to judge anyone who believes they speak in tongues. At the same time, most of the pastors in the Nazarene Church will tell you that the purpose of speaking in tongues is to share the gospel by supernatural means when you have no knowledge of the language in that culture. Also, they'll usually teach that of all the gifts, speaking in tongues is the least to be desired and you dont need the gift of yongues yo be saved, because that's what the Bible says. Bottom line, I believe if there is no one to interpret it, then the gift is useless or misled, because that's the most coherent and decisive statement about it I've found in scripture. If no one can understand it, not even you, what is the purpose? It sort of makes me think of people who have a gift of prophecy. Some people genuinely do, while others claim to be prophets but turn that gift into a joke, just because they need attention. So if the gift is just to build yourself up and not to serve others, then I dont think that gift is from God. God gives us gifts so that we can use them to serve Him and His kingdom to the glory of God. If your gift isn't being used to serve and to draw others close to Jesus, then you really need to question its purpose and truth.

This guy illiterate of the knowledge about tongues. He lacks experience about Holly Spirit

There's one crucial gap in your thinking. WHY do you believe the Pentacost story in the first place???

@ Linguists have studied “tongues” for decades and found it's not a real language—just random syllables that mimic the speaker’s native sounds but lack grammar or meaning. It doesn’t match any known language on Earth. It may feel spiritual, but there’s zero linguistic evidence that it’s divine or supernatural—just an emotional, learned behavior within group settings.

Much love from a charismatic brother in the faith! I know very many instances of that second form of tongues that I have friends who have encountered first hand. I know many people who have spoken earthly languages they would otherwise never know, and it always translates to some form of doxology or communication of the Gospel or word of knowledge. Also Paul speaks about tongues which the mind cannot understand (mysteries of God) that are edifying to the soul though no one understands it, this is meant to be in private as Paul says. And he also says that there is an interpretation of tongues, which is usually some form of prophecy--I myself have experienced this at church. I love you my Orthodox brethren, I pray for the unity of Christ's Body.

1 Corinthians 14:2:
This verse states that someone speaking in tongues speaks to God, not to people, and that they speak mysteries in the Spirit.

First of all. The bible in Acts 2:38 says we must be baptized in Jesus name for the remission of sins and we shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. As in Acts 2:38. You will see throughout the new Testament Everyone who received the Holy Ghost spoke in tongues. That's evidence of being filled with God's spirit. It is God's language. Show me in the bible where the language is understood. Acts 2:38 is God's plan of salvation
. Neither is there salvation in any other name for there is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved. The name Jesus. Not father son or Holy Spirit.

lol Christianity can’t even decide what Christianity is the right one 😂

It sounds like he's never experienced the baptism of the Holy Ghost

He’s A LIAR 🤥 & GOD Is My Witness.. THE SAME HOLY GHOST THE APOSTLES RECEIVED IN THE BOOK OF ACTS -(ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST IS THE SAME HOLY GHOST GOD BLESSED ME WITH ON -( AUGUST , 2 , 2024 —2000 Something Years Later .. ITS AN HONOR TO BE APART OF THIS LAST GENERATION TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE GODS HOLY SPIRIT IN THE LAST DAYS ‼️‼️

The world is blind And I know that this gentleman was nothing but a false prophet. Yes people speak in tongues and they don't speak languages unto men it is unto God. If God wants it known he will reveal it there is the tongues of mirror and the tongues of angels. I'm sure that a man that does not have a 5-minute prayer life and reads other books to make yourself wiser and ends up being more foolish has no idea. I asked this question is the book of Acts finished or is God still filling people with the holy Ghost according to Acts 2: 38

This man has no idea what is teaching

Simply crazy Brothers you have no idea what you're talking about

There are 2 different types of tongues in the bible. One is you can speak a language you didnt know. The other is in 1 Corinthians where it talks about one that the speaker dosent understand but it is spoken to God in prayer.

The Lord, prophetically, had referred to two key conditions that seem to be clearly confirmed in our time.
One is the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and the other is His statement: “Depart from Me, I never knew you,” addressed, as He Himself said, to those who will approach Him in the last days claiming they prophesied and performed miracles in His name.
Among the gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom and discernment, and His presence comes like an “opening of the eyes” at the moment it is truly needed.
In contrast, the hysterical kind of laughter without meaning, the unintelligible tongues that signify nothing, the wild dancing, and the strange behavior—often presented like a show—resemble scenes that reveal these manifestations do not come from the Holy Spirit.
So, could it be that the esoteric and deeper meaning surrounding the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit has to do with the actions that are presented as coming from Him, but actually mimic Him in a way that dishonors and distorts His presence?

Haters say anything because they are antichrist

Haters say anything because they are antichrist

God doesn’t change and people are still getting filled with the Holy Ghost today

The problem is that your referencing acts, your absolutely right those tongues were in actual languages. There is another tongue the apostle Paul writes about that is a mystery language, 1 Corinthians 14:2 “for the person who speaks in a tongue is not speaking to people but to god, since NO ONE UNDERSTANDING HIM, he speaks MYSTERIES in the SPIRIT “ just because a guy has a beard, funny hat and garb of a priest doesn’t mean they are well educated in scripture. The apostle Paul told us to be like the bereans and study the scriptures ourselves and don’t believe what everyone tells you.

Dialogue is not hatred. And disagreement does not make someone the antichrist. Let us stay far from the fanaticism that disguises itself as spirituality.
In the short video below, an Orthodox priest expresses the official stance of the Church. Through years of personal searching, I’ve come to believe that Orthodoxy is Christ Himself, extended through time via the living apostolic succession. By contrast, a so-called revelation that appears after 19 centuries—fragmented into thousands of denominations, each claiming to be the one true path—raises serious questions. I find it hard to believe that God would allow the world to remain in deception for two millennia… only to send us the Pentecostals now.
Energy is one thing; the Spirit is another. And the behavioral arrogance we see across all sects doesn’t quite resemble the energy of the Holy Spirit. If your soul truly finds rest in that spirit and its expressions, then there’s no need for further discussion. But if not, let us return to the humility of Christ. It is the only path that draws down Divine Grace. And only before the true God is it worth stepping down from the throne of our ego.

They are the same. There are a great number of witnesses still today. I am a witness of this Pentecostal Truth. Many others could give you testimony that, many who have Been standing by who spoke different languages from birth, can give a testimony of the Truth of the Pentecostal Experience today. That of a fact the speaker didn’t know or understand that Language by the ones standing By heard their Native language and gave glory to God for the Power of the Holy Ghost being witness of Gods great Power still today.

Though someone prayed for me in tongues and translated it to Isaiah 41:10 which I never talked to this woman before and it is my favorite verse and also exactly what I needed to hear. I was being stalked and was becoming paranoid.

Having a genuine intention to join such an energetically "noisy" church, I looked into what causes the phenomena, as well as videos of major leaders like Kenneth Copeland or shows like that of Dr. Rod Parsley, etc., and honestly, I don’t understand what it is that confuses you. If, after so many decades of such an energetically impressive state
(speaking in tongues, patterned dances, showy performances, hysterical laughter, stampeding and ecstatic states, extreme vocal intensities and outbursts of anger, etc.), I am spiritually at such a level like that of those leaders (instead of having literally been “SANCTIFIED”), I’m truly sorry, friends, but I will not take in the slightest bit of what—in its most gracious form—
I would call vanity... Before acceptance, there must be prior investigation, and behind every form of inquiry lies the healthy intention to seek the truth. So, please examine the “relationship” of the originators and founders of the “charismatic” church with other techniques that were widely practiced in those regions, and if this is not directly accessible due to lack of evidence, judge from the phenomena the similarity (dance style, speeches with “holy spirits”—NOTE THE PLURAL—using a language pattern that raises suspicion, “running from ‘fire,’” stampeding and ecstatic states, etc.). I’m truly sorry, friends, because I know that your intentions are not just good but exceptionally noble— I really don’t understand what it is that confuses you.

Fake pastors and false prophets rock the US ! You will never find judgement and hate like you see in the American Pentecostal flock !

what about when Saint paul says this 1 Corinthians 12–14 — Tongues as Unknown Languages

Paul writes extensively about spiritual gifts in these chapters, including speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues.

“For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.”
— 1 Corinthians 14:2

“If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.”
— 1 Corinthians 14:14

These verses suggest a different kind of tongues — a heavenly or spiritual language, not naturally understood unless someone has the gift of interpretation.

Paul even says:

“I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy.”
— 1 Corinthians 14:5

And he gives this rule for public worship:

“If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.”
— 1 Corinthians 14:27–28

In these cases, tongues were not known languages, and Paul emphasized order, interpretation, and edification in the church.

Those who speaks tongues on pentecost day was much different from the tongues spoken in today's pentecostal churches and revival churches.

Mark 16:17, according to Bible Study Tools, states: "And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues." These signs are a manifestation of God's power following those who believe in Jesus and are baptized.

this is false, don’t listen to this false teaching

1 Cor 14

I feel like gifts, like speaking in tongues, is bestowed on you by the Holy Spirit when it is needed, but then removed when its purpose is fulfilled. It's not like a concurrent gift, like empathy.

I come from Lalaura village in Papua New Guinea. In 1971. I went home for school holidays from the Boarding School I attended. At the school I attended the SU where the chaplain taught us to be careful of those that speak in tongues. He said it was of the devil. Upon arriving at the village I observed things had changed in the village church. People , young and old were speaking in tongues. I argued , spoke up , condemned this new phenomenon that was in the Church until my father who can't speak English went up to receive this gift. He started speaking in tongues. The amazing and miraculous thing was he was speaking in English, King James English language, didn't have a clue what he was saying but we heard him praising and glorifying God. This was a defining moment for me. All my arguments , logical understanding , views and questions were being destroyed before me. I repented and
asked the Lord to forgive my hardened heart. The Holy Spirit wonderfully babtised me in the Spirit with the evidence of speaking in an unknown language. I urge anybody who questions the work of the Holy Spirit to be careful as you could be displeasing the integrity of the Holy Spirit. God bless

Booo

The churches in the Pauline epistles seem to not be Orthodox though in the sense that he’s urging the congregation in general to fix its’ issues rather than in say in Timothy where leaders specifically are being addressed and told to fix things rather than the whole congregation being addressed. Granted in Paul’s letters there does seem to be an indication of people having different positions but it’s not in the form of leadership and hierarchy like we see in Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and what not. The congregations Paul is addressing do seem to be “charismatic” and “lead” by the Spirit rather than the rigid leadership positions of Orthodoxy which, realistically speaking, is an extremely hierarchical religious organization. Granted that doesn’t have anything to do with speaking in tongues, but I think that this and other evidence makes it clear that Orthodoxy developed over time and is not completely synonymous with the original Christian movement (though it does seem to have developed very quickly). I’m not necessarily Christian but I do find all of this interesting and am always interested to hear Orthodox Christians defend positions that don’t seem to quite line up with evidence - I’m not saying that sarcastically either, I’m genuinely interested to hear the Orthodox perspective despite not agreeing with it’s being entirely historically accurate (which I feel it very clearly isn’t)

The day of Pentecost they understood each others languages. Every other time in the book of acts act 10 acts 19. They spoke in tongues only for evidence of receiving the holy spiritual. Scripture interprets scripture “the Word of God is right, and somebody’s wrong” 😉

Yes and no

Maybe. I heard a male voice in a language I have never heard before that I am certain was divine. It was accompanied by other sensations and emotions. It was the holy spirit. I didn’t understand the words but, was that tongues?

The thing is the tongues the holy spirit gives is a language nobody supposed to know. Not even the devil knows it. Hence why the devil both is angry and scared of it.