Seventh-day Adventists believe that spiritual gifts such as "speaking in tongues" are used to communicate truth to others of different languages, and are skeptical of the tongues practiced by people Christian charismatic and Pentecost today.
Video Tongues in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Confidence
Trust "17. Prizes and Spiritual Ministry" of the 28 Adventist Beliefs asserts that spiritual gifts continue to this day. Although the gift of tongues or "glossolalia" is not mentioned specifically, Adventists more often limit the ability to speak untrue human language, or "xenoglossy"; and in general reject the form of language practiced by many charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, described as jubilant speech or "private prayer language."
Supporting this position is Gerhard Hasel, who believes that the practice refers only to the unknown human language, and not the language of angels or eloquent speech. The document has often been quoted by Adventists. The Seventh-day Adventist Theological Guidebook takes a position that speaks in tongues referring to the "unlearned human language" (xenoglossy), using experience on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 as a "criterion" for later interpretation. David Asscherick also believes that tongues are only xenoglossy.
Ellen G. White writes on this issue. She stated...
Some of these people have an exercise that they call a gift and say that God has placed them in the church. They have the unforgiving nonsense they call an unknown language, which is not only known to man but by God and the whole of heaven. Such gifts are made by men and women, aided by the impostor. Fanaticism, false joy, false speech in tongues, and noisy practice have been considered the gifts God places in the church. Some have been duped here.
He also stated... "They surrendered themselves to the wild, inevitable feelings and made an incomprehensible voice which they called the gift of tongues, and a certain class seemed to be fascinated by this strange manifestation.A strange spirit in power with this class, and oppress those who will rebuke them.the Spirit of God is not in work and does not attend such workers They have other spirits. "
See also other Adventist commentators.
Maps Tongues in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
History
The Incidence of Early Counterfeiting in Adventism
The first imitation example of a doctrinal problem occurred in 1848. James White records the written incident "There are several divisions concerning the timing of the start of the Sabbath, some beginning at sunset, but at most, at 6 pm a week ago. as the subject of prayer, the Holy Spirit descends, the Chamberlain's brother is filled with power, in which he cries with an unknown tongue.The following interpretation is this: 'Give me chalk, Give me chalk.' Well, I thought, if not at home then I would doubt this, but one day the brother took a nice chalk piece, Chamberlain's brother took it and with the power he drew a figure on the floor. "
Chamberlain's brother then gives his own interpretation to his unknown tongue and pictures...
It symbolizes Jesus' words, 'Is there not twelve hours a day?' This number represents the day or the last half of the day. Daylight half passes when the sun is in the south or half of every horizon, at 12 o'clock. Now go every six hours and you will get twelve hours a day. At any time of the year, the day ends at 6 pm. This is where the Sabbath begins at 6 pm. Satan will get us from this moment. But let us stand firm on the Sabbath as God has given it to us and Brother Bates.
This experience brings burdens with believers and they continue to observe the beginning of the Sabbath at six o'clock. Later, through Bible study, this event was later discovered as a false manifestation of the gift of tongues. In the summer of 1855, James White urged J.N. Andrews to investigate the issue of the beginning of the Sabbath. After several weeks of "careful investigation of the Scriptures, (he) shows from nine texts in the Old Testament and two texts in New that the Sabbath begins at sunset." Andrews's conclusion was read at a conference at Battle Creek, November, 1855, and, the prescribed scriptures, those present accept the responsibility of shifting from six o'clock to sunset as the time to begin the Sabbath. "
There are four documented cases of people who claim to speak in tongues in the early history of the Adventist church, according to Arthur White:
- The first in 1847 when Brother Chamberlain claimed to interpret your message Ralph in an unknown language.
- The second in 1848 when Brother Chamberlain confessed to speaking in an unknown language. (mentioned above)
- The third in 1849, when Ralph's brother confessed to speaking in tongues, interpreted that S. W. Rhodes should be taken, so Ralph and Hiram Edson left. When they meet him, Ralph again "speaks in a new language, and gives interpretation in power".
- The fourth claim was in 1851 at East Bethel Church, Vermont.
Arthur White stated, "There is no record of Ellen White giving explicit support for, or putting her support on, this ecstatic experience with an unknown tongue, even though she is an eyewitness to three of four."
There are also other false claims. In June 1853 on his way to Vergennes, Michigan, Ellen White scolded "Mrs. A." certain. who "speaks in tongues, but he is deceived, does not speak the language he speaks, in fact he speaks no language, if all the nations of the earth are together, and must hear his speech, none of them will know what he said, because he only talked about a lot of meaningless nonsense. "The woman claimed to speak local Native American languages.
"At a meeting he held the next day, this woman spoke of holiness, and during her conversation broke out again on an unknown tongue An Indian who had been invited to come to hear her speak her language jumped onto her feet, stating:" Very bad is India! Very bad that Indian guy! "When asked what she said, she stated:" Nothing; he does not speak Indian. "
A few days later in front of an Indian translator who knows 17 languages, he speaks and prays in his nonsense, and he declares that he does not say any Indian word. The effect is brief, not only because of this experience, but because of the disclosure (from one of Ellen White's visions) that the man she lived and lived in was not her husband. This is in time recognized. "
Further experience
Ralph Mackin and his wife claim to experience the gift of the Holy Ghost as prophecy, speaking in tongues, and even casting out demons. At an Adventist camp meeting in Mansfield, Ohio; they also claimed the gift of tongues, with Ralph speaking Mandarin and his wife, Yiddish as a result of the vision. Ellen White is careful if not skeptical, and ends up rebuking their testimonies stating...
"I am shown that it is not the Spirit of God that inspires you and Sister Mackin, but the same zeal of fanaticism that always seeks the entrance to the remaining churches." The Scriptural application of their strange practice is the abused Bible, the work of declaring those who have devils , and then pray with them and pretend to cast out evil spirits, is a fanaticism that will bring the ugliness of any church that sanction such work. "
He keeps saying...
I was shown that we should not give encouragement to this demonstration, but must guard the people with the prescribed testimony of what will bring a stain on the name of the Advent, and destroy the beliefs of the people in the message of righteousness that they must bear to the world.
Pentecostal-turned-Adventist E. C. Card says he gave up speaking in tongues. Howard Blum shared his point of view.
One website article, part 2 - "A False Concept of Children" claimed Demos Shakarian (1913-1993) and FGBMFI held a meeting to distribute their Voice magazine to Adventists. It mentions Advent, Bill Loveless and Dr. Lowe. This is seen with concern by Adventists, as an editor says, "We have lost members because of the delusions of this phenomenon, some young people."
In 2007, Australian administrator Gilbert Cangy reported receiving uneducated gifts of human language (xenoglossy), while on the island of Vanuatuan Ambrym, local speaker Bislama understood his English presentation.
The 1991 National Church Life Survey in Australia found that about 5% of Advent Australia approve and/or speak in tongues, while 11% have no opinion and about 85% disagree. This is the highest rejection rating among all the surveyed denominations.
See also
- Prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Seventh-day Adventist Service
References
- Hegstad, Roland R. (1974). Shake the Gates . Washington, DC: Review and Herald.
- Noorbergen, Rene. Glossolalia: Sweetest Ecstasy Sound (Mountain View, California: Pacific Press, c.1973)
External links
- Speaking in Tongue: Brief History Phenomenon Known as Glossolalia, or Speaking in Tongues by Harry W. Lowe (Pacific Press, 1965). Reprinted on the Biblical Research Institute website
- "Tongue Speaking in Early SDA History", a bibliography by Gary Shearer
- Search for "Glossolalia" in the Seventh Day Adventist Index (SDAPI)
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