What Is Speaking In Unknown Tongues?

Spiritual Tounges or Man-made “Jibberish”?

Every biblical reference, concerning a “true” spiritual experience, of speaking in tongues or speaking in an unknown tongue only occurs when God takes “complete control” of your vocal activities. Although you are fully aware of this supernatural move of God taking place from within your body, you do not have any controlling decisions over the type of words coming out from your mouth, nor do you have the physical ability to stop this experience once it begins (unless, of course, you are possibly more powerful than God himself). You cannot stop this vocal activity until God has completed that which he wants you to experience, and what a life-changing experience it is indeed. It is God who chooses who, when, where and how to provide this miraculous tongue experience.

This God-given experience was not intended for you (or others) to go around and try to imitate this supernatural experience by making “unintelligible babbling” sounds or “stammering lip” sounds or any other type of “indistinguishable vocal activity” sounds that you physically control (which is the major difference).

The Supernatural Phenomenon

of

Speaking in Unknown Tongues

I must reiterate once again; I am a living witness that speaking in unknown tongues, when it is caused by a move of God (the Holy Ghost), exists and is a real supernatural phenomenon. However, many of the teachings, currently being embraced, are based on man-made doctrines and not the word of God. It is not the goal of this author to deny the validity of or minimize the importance of speaking in “unknown” tongues but to embrace what the Bible actually says about this specific phenomenon.

Just because someone may generate an “indistinguishable vocal activity” during a church service, or anywhere, does not necessarily mean they are under the influence of God speaking in “unknown tongues.”  If that were the only criteria ( as if  Gal 5:22-23 didn’t exist) then any and all “unintelligible babbling” (even baby goo-goo) could be called “speaking in tongues” or speaking in an “unknown tongue” that however does not necessarily mean that this type of vocal activity is always stemming from the hand of God.

This manner of “stammering lips” or “indistinguishable vocal activity” can be (and often is) a learned behavior or it may indeed be brought on by God but unfortunately, it can also be easily faked or imitated. God never intended for, nor instructed, any of us to judge who has the Holy Ghost based on someone speaking in an unknown tongue as the determining criteria.

No man can truthfully verify the source of any unknown manner of speaking (for lack of better wording) if he does not have the ability to interpret that part of the vocal activity which is unintelligible? That is the recipient’s place and testimony to give witness to that specific experience! Not You!

You cannot “truthfully” testify about this supernatural experience

until

you actually had this supernatural experience!

(For Example:) If you cannot tell me what a man is saying; 

Spiritual (Unknown) Tounges or Man-made “Jibberish”

then you cannot truthfully make that claim as fact for another man. Random murmuring coming from anyone’s mouth is obviously an unknown tongue but it is not necessarily a language, let alone a “spiritual or supernatural” language, nor is it necessarily from God.