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You can spend a month trying to explain this to some and they will never move away from their position. Many do not understand that things changed after the cross.

Curtis, unless what they are talking about is someone teaching/preaching to believers with a different language. It would be like an American church today saying we are not going to allow an evangelist from Mexico who only speaks Spanish to preach at our church which would require an...

I do not think it necessary to have the laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit. My point was more toward it looked like when they did receive the Holy Spirit they spoke in tongues. After doing so did Paul give them the thumbs up and say "now you're filled with the Holy Spirit as evident...

Paul, I think I agree with much of what you say but this gives me pause. Those men (see below) spoke in tongues after Paul placed his hands upon them. Looks like evidence to me. I've not done a deep dive in these verses yet but it might be that there speaking in tongues is prayer language and...

I think our challenge is understanding that when the scriptures say "tongues" it can mean different things at different places in the scripture. Tongues can mean, language or prayer utterances. I think when Paul says in 1 Corinithans 13:1 that he speaks with the tongues of men (languages) and of...

Hey 1stCenturyLady, I want you to know that I love you even though I think you have this issue wrong. I hope one day we can have fellowship in Heaven and laugh at ourselves.

I understand your interpretation of "hear" but I do not interpret it the same way. If you talk I hear you. I do not need a gift from the Holy Spirit to hear you speaking in my language. It says they understood their native language not others native languages. They were hearing those speaking...

That Galileans were speaking their native language. Scripture is very clear on this. The multitude were from many different parts of the known world at that time. All these different languages being spoken. The person in the crowd was hearing his native language spoken but was also hearing other...

Yes 3000 came to Christ after the arrival of the Holy Spirit. We have no scripture giving us any indication that Pharisees were mocking anyone on the day of Pentecost. Maybe but maybe not. We do not know and should leave it at that. We do know that those who came to Christ that day were...

Yes and I also believe that tongues were also a gift of the Holy Spirit for prayer. I think tongues as defined in the Greek language can refer to different things. As you mentioned, the Holy Spirit is not restricted to a box. I think many Christians loose credibility in the teaching of tongues...

You're simply inserting your view. The scriptures do not support your statement. I do not think it's wise to add to the scripture. We do not have any evidence that the multitude had the fear of God in them. It does say they were devout Jews. There is clearly devout Jews today who do not have the...

I think you should read Acts 2 again. It clearly refers to a multitude of many different places. It clearly tells us that the multitude marveled. We know there were Jews in Rome, just read the book of Romans. It is pure speculation to assume Gentiles were mocking them. I do not wish to add or...

I think we would see more in the scriptures about the gift of tongues if all those who had accepted Christ in the 1st century were given that gift. I cannot find a scripture adding "speaking in tongues" to a means of salvation. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 does not mention speaking in tongues as a...

I agree with your view but we must recognize their is a prayer language that is different than "tongues". I think what makes this subject difficult is that the translation from Greek to English didn't have the ability to give different words that we use today to define prophecy, tongues and...

I pray that you do not quench the Spirit and receive the gift without hesitation.

I believe in the gifts of tongues but Charismatics seem to need all references to tongues in the scriptures a supernatural experience for all within ear shot. In 1 Corinthians 14:27 some argue that Paul is talking about a person who speaks a different language to a group who does not understand...

Correct. Those that gathered had mockers not a Holy Spirit gift.

I do not think that the gift of interpretation of tongues is what the crowd had at Pentecost. We see no evidence that the crowd who ask if these men where drunk are even believers. I don't think the Holy Spirit was poured out on the crowd with a gift of understanding unknown Tongues. It's simply...

Scripture tells us we can sing in the Spirit too. I would put that in a Prayer Language bucket. The experience mentioned at Pentecost concerning the gift of the Spirit is not given to us again in the scriptures (people speaking in different known languages) but I would not assume that it never...

Kindle Unlimited has many Christian books. I find that about 25% of them are pretty good, others no so. I have found the following to be good books. Please share if you have found free Kindle books on Amazon that you enjoyed. John the Beloved by Darryl DelHousaye reading it now and so far...