Originally Posted by
Ari
I had an US Army veteran in my office a few days ago. Our conversation centered around spiritual gifts, particularly the word of knowledge and speaking in tongues. He spoke of how the Army sent him to language school and taught him the Vietnamese language when he was training for a special forces unit. He served four tours in Viet Nam. He is still fluent in the language and often communicates with several friends who are native speakers.
About ten years ago, he was attending a Pentecostal church in a small town in Eastern South Carolina where, during a worship service, there was an utterance in tongues and then an interpretation of the tongue. The vet recognized the language, it was Vietnamese. After the service the veteran spoke with both participants. The message in tongues was delivered by a young Hispanic man and the interpretation was given by an elderly Caucasian woman. The interpretation was an accurate depiction of what was spoken in tongues.
My Army friend questioned both this man and woman. Neither had been in the service or to Viet Nam. Neither new anything of the Vietnamese language.
Skeptics claim that all tongues-speaking is unintelligible gibberish, but this is an account of a recognized language unknown to the speaker and the one who gave the interpretation.
1 Cor 12:8-10
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: