Is speaking in tongues evidence of salvation in Jesus Christ and thus something all Christians should be practicing?
The question was posed before Hank Hanegraaff, also known as the “Bible Answer Man,” during his radio show. Hanegraaf made it clear that what happened on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit allowed followers of Jesus to speak in tongues, as described in the book of Acts, was a “non-normative event.”
“You think for example of what happened back in the Old Testament, when men were trying to excel by their own humanistic endeavors, God divided the languages, so that their plans and plots would be foiled. In the Pentecost you have a reversal of what you have at the Tower of Babel,” Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute, said.
“It is as if a unification takes place in a miraculous way so that the Gospel can go out to the far reaches of the world. I think that the fact that this is communicated as a historical narrative, something that actually happened, is wonderful, but to project this in such a way that this is now normative for all people at all places at all…
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