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Quote:Because they are sadly uneducated and uncatechized on the matter, and have mistaken the occultic practice of incantation/ululation with “the gift of tongues” in the New Testament.
By You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the same 5–13 syllables multiple times, especially (but not necessarily) with gradually increasing speed, volume, and intensity and working to a climax, one induces an altered state of consciousness and often auto-hysteria.
It is in fact a practice condemned in Scripture, in both the Old Testament and the New.
Apostolic “tongues", by contrast, sounds like a language — with a discernible grammar, vocabulary, morphology, and syntax, and in fact often is an actual other human language that the speaker has no knowledge of.
(I was accompanying a friend on a mission trip in Eastern Europe 25 years ago, and at a small town in southeast Poland the host asked me to preach at a village gathering with the host translating. 3 lines into the sermon —though I speak not a word of Polish — I broke into perfect native Polish, and not the kind you'd learn in school, but this town's obscure dialect and accent — at least that's what they all told me. All I know is I was trying to speak in English, but all the words kept coming out funny.)