What does "speaking in tonges" mean according to the spirits. (André Luiz)
Gustave Dore's Pentecost. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them . Acts 2:4 Whoever reads the Bible is frequently impressed by the passage of Acts 2:4 in the New Testament, which describes the episode of Pentecost (1). The so-called “gift of tongues”, also referred to as the “charism of glossolalia” (2), is considered a capacity or “grace” that existed among the first apostles as a “gift from God,” and which enabled members of the early church to communicate the Christian message to other ancient peoples. Some modern Christians (neo-Pentecostals) believe that speaking anything in “strange tongues” would prove their union with God, since they would be speaking the “language of angels.” However, what follows in the cited chapter of the Acts of the Apostles actually refers to human languages. In the book Mecanismos da Mediunidade [1], one of the earliest lucid interpretations of this fact perhaps a...