Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ta00est@unccvax.UUCP (elizabeth s tallant) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Fatima, Portugal, 1917 Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 90 02:59:13 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu For that matter, anyone who believes in the Bible also believes in miricles. I have seen people "speak in tounges" who claimed that they were speaking in tounges, but I don't think that they were. Here is the reason. In each of these ceremonies, disorder dominated the service. People were screaiming, wailing, walking around, etc. In my opinion, this is not a worship service. The Bible says that God is a God of order. A service dedicated to God would be a service and not a circius. This, however, it not to say that speaking in tounges does not exist. Paul says that some people have the gift of speaking in tounges, and note that he says this after Christ's resurrection. Thus, someone at sometime or another is bound to speak in tounges. And as Paul further mentioned, some have the gift of translating in tounges. I know this sounds really wild, but at once when I attended one of these "circius" ceremonies, I took an Moslem Arab friend who wanted to "observe." During the ceremony, I was surprised to find an uneducated-looking American woman saying things in Arabic. She was sitting directly behind us. Coinci- dence that she spoke a little Arabic? Or may something greater?