Well what Languages are they speaking, and what countries and villages through out the world is GOD sending them too! And are they bringing some Converts back to American, and the Western World Testifying?
What you mean to tell me all of these churches you are referring to have people in them that cannot speak "English"! And God is giving them Gift of a Foreign Language, to speak unto the "Indigenous" people like God gave the Jews in the Book of "The Acts of The Apostles"? WOW!!! you have a great testimony!
It's not necessarily "my" testimony. But yes, they come from other countries and give their testimonies here. If this isn't happening in your church, maybe you're in the wrong place.
And yes, it is hundreds of Earthly languages. But also sometimes heavenly languages (the tongues of Angels)
I don't
thing you even read my post or comprehended what I was saying.
or maybe you are having problems with "English syntax" or english words.
Yes some people have trouble with spelling, grammar, and syntax.
I am referring to the "Gift of Languages", for I do not know what the heck you are talking about!
..and yet you start off this thread saying...
If it seems up to them by testimony, the Gift of Languages do not exist.
(another spelling/grammar error). If this is their testimony, maybe they aren't true believers.
Mark 16:15; And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
Mark 16:16; "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
Mark 16:17; "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons,
they will speak with new tongues;
Mark 16:18; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
Because of the spelling/grammar errors above, I don't know exactly what you mean by "gift of languages". None of my Bibles use that specific working.
1Cor 12:1; Now concerning
spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.
1Cor 12:4; Now there are varieties of
gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Cor 12:5; And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.
1Cor 12:6; There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.
1Cor 12:7; But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1Cor 12:8; For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
1Cor 12:9; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1Cor 12:10; and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits,
to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
So, I'm not sure about the gift of "languages" per se. But there is definitely a gift of various tongues. Which would be different languages.
Act 2:4; And they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
Act 2:5; Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Act 2:6; And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was
hearing them speak in his own language.
Act 2:7; They were amazed and astonished, saying, "Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
Act 2:8; "And
how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?
Act 2:9; "Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
Act 2:10; Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Act 2:11; Cretans and Arabs—
we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God."