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| Modern Montanists |
"The following discussion uses quotation marks and also the term “so-called” in reference to these current practices of “tongues” and “prophecy,” because a careful examination of the NT reveals data about the nature and practice of these NT gifts that contrasts with such practices as presently displayed. For instance, an exegetical examination of the biblical phenomenon of tongues in Acts 2:1-13 and 1 Corinthians 12–14 (especially 14:1-19) indicates conclusively that “tongues” were human languages that the speaker had not learned by natural means and not non-cognitive, non-understandable speech that is currently labeled as such. See Normal L. Geisler, “Appendix 5. Were New Testament Tongues Real Languages,”in Signs and Wonders (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale, 1988) 165-68; Robert G. Gromacki, The Modern Tongues Movement (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1967) 53-68; Thomas R. Edgar, “Tongues: The Nature of the Gift,” in Miraculous Gifts, Are They for Today? (Neptune, N.J.: Loizeaux, 1983) 108-70; Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., “Prophecy and Tongues,” in Perspectives on Pentecost (Phillipsburg, N.J.:Presbyterian and Reformed, 1979) 55-87; Robert L. Thomas, Understanding Spiritual Gifts, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999 [1978]) 186-91."
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