Silly Uncle Wayne
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Sorry Albion, but that wasn't what I was saying, nor even what Samarin was saying (as far as I can tell). He did linguistic assessment over a long period of time and decided that there were two types of tongues (not something I agree with).Please excuse me for "dropping in" without reviewing all of the previous 600 (!) posts, but isn't that almost a favorite claim made by Continuationists? It's not as though this idea of different tongues is ground-breaking.
In every discussion I've been part of, the Continuationists make claims about speaking in a foreign language although previously having no knowledge of the language.
When that claim falters, they switch to the "Well, there are ecstatic tongues, prayer languages, which are not known to anyone else but the person who is communicating with God."
And when that fails, the claim becomes "There are Angelic languages," and a mistaken interpretation of that Bible verse is duly referred to.
Additionally I have been present when someone spoke in a foreign language unknown to them and had it interpreted by someone who did know the language and what was being said, as well as having a lecturer explain the same thing had happened to him. On top of that there are enough cases that I have read of that would count as third hand cases but who have said virtually the same thing.
And that is not even bringing into account the possibility that a language spoken is not known to either the speaker or an interpreter (Interpretation of tongues is a spiritual gifts).
I'm not saying that all tongues are genuine languages or even genuine... but some are. And that causes a problem for cessationism.
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