re satanic tounges in article may geneva rutgers edu marka hcx ssd csd harris com mark ashley writes in article may geneva rutgers edu mmh dcs qmw ac uk matthew huntbach writes i have seen the claims but i don t know if there are any authenticated cases of people making prolonged speeches in real languages they don t know from my observations speaking in tongues in practice has nothing at all do with this i have a simple test i take several people who can speak only one language e g chinese russian german english then i let the gifted one start speaking in toungues the audience should understand the gifted one clearly in their native language however the gifted one can only hear himself speaking in his own language 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 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 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 so why do these supposed angelic tongues all sound different from one another it s disturbing to think that some people find ways to justify jabbering but i ll buy the idea that someone could talk in a language never learned 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 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
