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1. Name an instance in the
Bible where someone spoke tongues and a Jew was not
present!
Key: They can't. I Corinthians 14:21; 1:22; Isaiah
28:11.
2. What language do you
speak when you speak in tongues?
Key: Real languages were always spoken, not gibberish.
Acts 2:6, 8-11
Note: I Corinthians 13: 1, Paul did not mean he spoke in
an angelic tongue. See the meaning of "though" -Job
13:15; and Proverbs 11:21 (hypothetical situation).
3. Do women speak in
tongues at your church?
Key: They are commanded not to-I Corinthians 14:34. This
is right in the middle of a tongues and prophecies
passage and pertains to this activity. Since these gifts
have ceased (I Corinthians 13:10) preaching is limited
men only (I Timothy 2:12; 3:2 and 12). Scripture does
not bar women from teaching children and other women;
neither does it mean women have to be mute in church.
When taking I Corinthians 14:34 in context it is clearly
seen that this is talking about women prophesying and
speaking in tongues.
4. Why do you speak in
tongues in church when Paul said, "Yet in the church I
had rather speak five words with my understanding, that
by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand
words in an unknown tongue."?
I Corinthians 14:19.
5. If tongues did not
cease, prophesies did not fail, and knowledge did not
vanish away upon completion of the Bible (which is
perfect) Revelation 22:18 and 19, what is stopping
anyone from adding to the Bible whenever he pleases?
(Example- Joseph Smith of the Mormons).
Key: I Corinthians 13: 8-13, is not talking about Jesus'
return.
a. In verse 10 "that" is an inanimate object.
b. Verse 12 is talking about prophecy being a foggy
mirror or dark glass, but when "that which is perfect is
come" (verse 10), it shall be a clear image, “I know
even as also I am known" (verse 12). The Bible is
described as a mirror in James 1:23.
c. One of the three things that still abides is faith,
and "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God." Romans 10:17. The Word of God (the King
James Version, 1611 A.D.) should be the believer's only
guide, not babblings. I Timothy 6:20.
6. Let's say you have a
genuine gift of tongues, why are you not on the foreign
mission field preaching the gospel with it?
Key: Probably because you are not saved, you wicked
devil.
7. Considering that I
Corinthians is a rebuke to a carnal church (I
Corinthians 3:3), name one or more epistles in the New
Testament that suggests we speak in tongues.
Key: Not once in 20 of these main doctrinal books is it
mentioned.
8. How do you receive the
baptism of the Holy Ghost?
Key: Not by tarrying, begging, or asking, nor by being
prayed upon, but at the moment of salvation. Romans 8:9;
I Corinthians 12:13. (Note-There is only one baptism of
the Spirit, Ephesians 4:5).
9. Where are you commanded
ever to hold a healing service in scripture?
Key: Nowhere. (Note- James 5:14 says "...let him", the
one who is sick, call for the elders.)
10. Is it always God's will
for everybody to be healed?
Key: No. II Corinthians 12: 7-9; Philippians 2:25-30; II
Timothy 4:20; Hebrews 12:6-14; I Corinthians 11:30-32.
"And said, O full of all
subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou
enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to
pervert the right ways of the Lord?" Acts 13:10
by Pastor Fred R. Fowler
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