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Rev. Prof. Dr. F.N. Lee

Tongues at Corinth: Languages, not Ecstasies!

Holy Writ was then completed. Now, “the whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary…is either expressly set down in Scripture or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture.” Thus, to completed Scripture — “nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of men.” Westminster Confession 1:6m.

The Westminster Confession (21:1b) later warns that God “may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men or the suggestions of Satan.” The Confession further insists (1:8u) that the word ‘tongues’ — in I Cor. 14:6,9,11,12,24,27,28 — uniformly refers to popular vernacular alias “the vulgar language of every nation. Indeed, it also insists (21:3m) that the command not to ‘pray in an unknown tongue’ — in I Cor. 14:14 — requires Christians who utter “vocal” or audible prayer, to do so only “in a known tongue.”

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