Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ssimmons@unix.cie.rpi.edu (Stephen Simmons) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: speaking in tongues, etc Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 04:56:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: CIE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jkk@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk (John Kingston) writes: >I take the point that Acts lists people from 15 regions who heard the >disciples speaking in their own language, and there were only 12 >disciples. I also agree that it is impossible to speak 2 languages at once. >I imagine that some disciples spoke first in one language, then in another, >although I don't claim to have any textual evidence for this. What was Actually, Acts indicates that all who were in the upper room spoke in tongues, and the number of them was 120. So it would have been easy for 15 different languages to have been spoken. And they could have been spoken at the same time, because people (I think) have tendency to tune out other languages and hear only the one(s) that they understand... Sorry, no *proof* for this; I just hear foreign languages as noise unless I concentrate. Indeed, it is possible, from my experience, for several people to speak in unknown tongues and intermix English and as a result have a conversation going on in English in the background while four different unknown languages are being spoken in the foreground. > 3/ I have heard a few stories of people in this century "speaking in >tongues" and being understood by speakers of a foreign language. I can See also Steve Lightle's Exodus II for several additional examples. Furthermore, some Assemblies of Gods churches have speaking in tongues/interpretation of tongues as mentioned in Scripture, and on at least one occasion that my roommate attended, another person stood up and testifed that the interpretation was correct, because that person knew the language spoken.