BINGO!!! You'd be absolutely accurate in saying so.
Really? Do you know that Jesus Christ is the truth and not you? So did you ask Him? Do you ask Him and listen? You don't just go around saying something is 'absolutely accurate because you said so, do you?
From actually getting the gift of tongues you understand that just making up "gibberish and forced mutterings" feeling extremely silly - so you would never do that, not even under peer pleasure. And frankly there is an assumption in many of the comments that tongues is something normally done in a group - which would be known to be completely wrong if they had and used the gift.
If people really and truly believed in Jesus Christ - which is to say they were "devout" believers like mentioned in Acts - they would not go around thinking that those people were silly and perhaps drunk - as also mentioned in Acts - and all that is in the Bible to help them understand where they actually stand!
Are they in the "devout believers or with the other group that was there on that day? Do they even know the day to hear from the Lord and receive His Holy Spirit is Today? And is there not something mentioned as tongues being a sign? Perhaps they miss read the signs? Could that explain why they don't actually seek Jesus Christ as the Truth. and so actually match up with what the Bible explains also?
There were two groups of people there in Acts!
The devout who all spoke in tongues and got the interpretation and that other group who had pretended obedience to God but put Jesus Christ on the cross, and still thought they were right - And there is nothing new under the sun.
Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Acts 2:5 Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Acts 2:13 But others were mocking and saying, “They are full of sweet wine.”
So a discussion goes on in the public square, about this issue, just like then.
1 Cor 14: 22 So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.
So is tongues presented and a "false gift" - no it is not!! It is presented in the Bible as a sign to the unbelievers!! Yet to the believer who actually listens to the Lord, it is a sign that they are not hearing the Spirit speak to them in words they understand so they believer should then seek for the interpretation in words they can understand in their own language via the Holy Spirit. The devout believers got both the gifts of tongues and the interpretation into their own language - where as the unbelievers thought tongues to be silly nonsense!
And you can find a bit of both of this on this thread. Some who are believers and speak in tongues but don't understand it is a sign to them to seek the voice of the Lord, whom they know, and get the words in their own language. And also we find the pretenders who don't really know the Lord and hear from Him, so tongues was a sign to them that they are actually unbelievers who make fun of what the Lord is doing to get people to actually seek Him and listen to Him voice (that small voice from the Holy Spirit speaking to us)
So to some tongues is a sign they need to listen more, and to some tongues is a sign they need to start actually believing in the Lord, and no where in the Bible that I can remember is it a 'false' sign from the devil. It doesn't seem like it would be a smart move on the devil part if tongues (speaking words we don't understand but believe are from God) is a sign to both the believer and the non-believer to seek the voice of the Lord our God (Jesus Christ) And since it is written that all those who seek find - it seems like a foolish thing for the devil to do, which might explain why the Bible does not call it a 'false gift'. It seems only those not willing to seek the Lord but who want to lean on their own understanding as being the Truth, call it that. They don't seem to even think they are scoffing at the work of God!
Of course, reproving them with show who is wise among them, and the others will not like me for pointing this out. But for the sake of those who are wise but have not really thought it through yet, I posted like the Lord asked me. After all the Lord likes to use the foolish things of this world. Who else would point this out to people unwilling to listen to Him?
Prov 9:8 Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you, Reprove a wise man and he will love you.
Prov 13"1 A wise son accepts his father's discipline, But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Prov 14:6 A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.
Do you know why knowledge is easy to one who has understanding?? It is because Jesus is called Understanding because He has words of His Father who is called Knowledge because His Father has all knowledge! So if I have Jesus Christ I have Understanding and the words of Knowledge! So all I have to do is ask and listen and my Lord Jesus Christ gives me understanding with the words of His Father! And that is why this post was started as it was! Truth is not what we think and say but what Jesus has as says!! But who will listen and who will scoff at Him?
One of my favorite verses is Prov 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom: From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
If you understood the words of the wise then you would understand that the Lord gives His Holy Spirit (Wisdom): and from His mouth come the words of the Father (knowledge) and those from the Son (Understanding) who has them.
Prov 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding,
Do you know the Holy Spirit (wisdom) and the instructions that came down from the Father? Do you discern and understand that Jesus Christ as the Word of God has the words and sayings of His Father? Or perhaps you are thinking that your thinking and understanding is the Truth?
Prov 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
