Must you speak in tongues to be saved?
A couple of years ago I was attending a church that had a "speaking in tongue" night where we were all to be blessed & at the end of the night we were promised that we would be speaking in tongue.
Out of about 30 people in the group that night, I was the only person who ended up not speaking in tongue.
I was very upset about this & I spoke to family & friends about it. I was advised that there was a good reason why I did not speak in tongue. I'm not good at quoting from the bible but there is a story where Jesus states that it is not necessary to speak in tongue & there should be no division between us & that we all need to understand one another etc. etc. as I say, sorry not so good at quoting directly from bible maybe someone could quote exactly?
The gift of tongues is part of the toolbox of gifts and spiritual abilities that comes with the baptism with the Spirit that comes to a believer who is already saved. You have to be saved first before you are baptised in the Spirit. There are examples in Acts where unsaved people tried to operate in the Spirit and they came off second best (ie: the servant girl who followed Paul and Silas around, and the seven sons of Sceva). The Scripture clearly says that the person who believes and who is baptised is saved. Nothing else needs to be added to be Justified by faith. The baptism with the Spirit, including tongues are God's tools of trade to empower believers to go out into the world and make disciples.
The devil wants to discredit tongues in any way he can because it is a gift that builds up and empowers believers in their personal prayer life. Getting people to believe that they have to speak in tongues in order to be saved is one of the lies that he has put in the mouths of some of his pseudo christian prophets in order to deceive people and lead them astray.
When you are saved and baptised with the Spirit, you can speak in tongues. This does not mean that you must.
One of the references about people asking what they need to do to be saved had the instruction to be baptised as part of it. What is meant is water baptism. So it seems that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, repenting, and being baptised in water are all in the mix.The sons of Sceva was a good example, but the servant girl not so much. She was speaking by the spirit of Python, a demonic/occult power. She wasn't trying to speak by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It was soothsaying.
Wondering though, what you you mean when you say, "a person must believe and be baptized" to be saved? What baptism?
One of the references about people asking what they need to do to be saved had the instruction to be baptised as part of it. What is meant is water baptism. So it seems that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, repenting, and being baptised in water are all in the mix.
noMust you speak in tongues to be saved?
Nowhere in The Bible does it say that tongues is a requirement for salvation.