musterion

This is in response to the challenge laid down by AndyC. It's very simple.

1. Record yourself, audio or video, "speaking in tongues." If you do video, feel free to disguise your face if you like.

2. Post the video online at Youtube or wherever you like.

3. Post a link here.

4. If you're one of those who believes you can interpret your own tongues, do so. Post text along with your link of what your tongues said.

At that point, I will contact someone with linguistic experience who will narrow down as close as possible which general language family you spoke in. From there, I will chase down getting a translation of what you said. We'll see if it matches your self-translation.

If you can speak in an identifiable human language that before God you will affirm that you never studied or learned before, you will have gone a long way toward proving the Pentecostal era gift of tongues is still used by God. And if you should happen to lie about it -- speaking in a language you did study but pass it off as miraculous -- then you're a liar and you know what will happen to you.

All you need is a mic on your computer, then upload the audio or video to Youtube or somewhere.

AndyC will not accept this challenge. Will someone else?

Tongues are a sign for unbelievers, Paul said (1 Cor 14:22). Many of us do not believe tongues are for today, so you may as well consider us unbelievers in that respect.

That means your gift...which is actually God's gift, not yours...is intended especially for us.   

So let us see it.

What you got to lose?...