re satanic tounges in article may athos rutgers edu koberg spot colorado edu allen koberg writes there seem to be many points to the speaking in tongues thing which are problematic it s use as prayer language seems especially troubling to me i understand that when you pray in tongues the spirit is doing the talking and when you pray you pray to god and the spirit is god so the spirit is talking to himself which is why i only go by the pentecost use where it s an actual language what is wrong with the spirit talking to himself jesus intercedes for us and romans tell of how the spirit intercedes for us before god that is no theological problem tounges as a prayer language finds support in i corinthians moreover the phrase though i speak with the tongues of men and angels used by paul in i cor is misleading out of context some would then assume that there is some angelic tongue and if when they speak it is no known language then it is an angelic tongue its true that this could be and has been used as a rug to sweep any difficulties under but it is a valid point paul does mention angelic tounges in the verse hmmm in the old testament story about the tower of babel we see how god punished by giving us different language can we assume then that if angels have their own language at all that they have the same one amongst other angels after all they were not punished in any manner if the languages we sepak are the result of babel then it stands to reason that angels would speak a different language from us you do have a valid point about multiple angelic languages but angelic beings maybe of different species so to speak maybe different species communicate differently trouble is while such stories abound any and all attempts at verification and we are to test the spirit either show that the witness had no real idea of the circumstances or that outright fabrication was involved the brother puka story in a previous post seems like a friend of a friend thing and linguistically a two syllable word hardly qualifies as language inflection or no i have heard an eyewitness account myself such things are hard to prove they don t lend themselves to a laboratory thing very well i don t know if it is a very holy thing to take gifts into a laboratory anyway much as many faith healers have trouble proving their victories since most ailments cured are just plain unprovable and modern day ressurrections have never been validated so is it true that no modern day xenoglossolalia has been proved by clergy or lay that s an unprovable statement how can you prove if somethings been proved there is no way to know that you ve seen all the evidence once i saw an orthodontists records complete with photographs showing how one of his patients severe underbite was cured by constant prayer john g lakes once prayed for someone and saw them healed in a laboratory according to adventures in god its an interesting book link
