The Gift of Tongues, Acts 2

The tongues given in Acts 2 were known syntactical languages spoken by Jews who attended the feast of Pentecost. They were spoken miraculously and therefore those languages were not able to be duplicated by human means. The tongues were spoken instantaneously without copying sounds they had heard before or had attempted to learn. The gift of tongues in 1 Corinthians 12-14 is the same as the tongues spoken at Pentecost for the language of both passages is the same and there is no indication that something different is happening. There is no reason to believe there is a difference in the tongues of the two passages unless you are trying to defend an experience by reading an experience into the text of Scripture.

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