Speaking in strange tongues comes from pentecostalism and it is false. Speaking in tongues only menat that someone like Paul who had never been to another country and did not know the language could go there and speak in his native tongue and the people there could understand him and he also could understand them in their native dialect. Speaking in tongues and strange utterances, the way you refer it is not real. The real speaking in tongues was for the Gospel and the message of God to be spread to all parts of the world and the Holy Spirit allowed for our Church Fathers to understand people who spoke entirely different languages and vice versa. Thats it, it is ot some strange angelic language as some purport it to be. This is just nonsense that Satan is using to fool our church brethren, he dabs a little bit of truth in with a lot of falsehoods that look legit if you don’t examine it further and wha la, we have a new charismatic movement that people wanna jump right on board with.
No - Paul did not need to speak foreign languages. Greek was the common tongue throughout the civilised world. All the NT was written Greek, and even the OT was translated into
Greek.
Consider Acts 10:34-46:
"Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, **for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. "
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They could understand Peter perfectly well & presumably Peter could understand them since he had been talking to Cornelius before this passage. So why the gift of tongues if it is just the ability to speak a foreign language. Who was Cornelius speaking to? Well it tells us - he was praising God. So he was speaking a language God understood which is what tongues is.
The take Acts 19:1-7
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, where he found some disciples. He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” They replied, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” Then he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They answered, “Into John’s baptism.” Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them,
and they spoke in tongues and prophesied—altogether there were about twelve of them.
Again Paul and they could converse perfectly well. No need for foreign languages. But they spoke in tongues. Who to? To God - “and prophesied” - you see God was speaking to them, so there was a conversation with God going on. God understood their speaking in tongues.
