Actually, if one studies Scripture, we will find in Acts chapter 2 that gibberish was not spoken at Pentacost, as it in in Charismatic churches today.
Whatever is happening with the gibberish movement is not what happened at Pentacost.
Acts 2:6
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded,
because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another,
Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea,
and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene,
and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
12 And they were all amazed,
and were in doubt, saying one to another,
What meaneth this?
Tongues as we see from God's word is not some kind of gibberish that needed to be translated or explained.
Another problems that the gibberish tongues movement has is the way it's started by and led by women.(Azuzu Street, Amiee.)
1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
if the Charismatic movement really believed the Bible, instead of emotionalism, making the women sit down and be quite would wipe out the majority of people speaking gibberish in a church service.
Remember, as noted by Scripture, tongues are a KNOWN LANGUAGE.
Also, the sign gifts DID stop when the Jews finally rejected the Gospel, and Paul went to the Gentiles.
The signs were for the Jews, not the Greeks.
if you do a word search using the word "signs" you will see how very often God used the word in dealing with His people, the Jews.
1 Corinthians 1:22
For the Jews require a sign,
and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified,
unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God,
and the wisdom of God.
CORRECT!
I will direct you to post 172.
BUMP, BUMP, BUMP!
seconding that...
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded,
because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
if the Charismatic movement really believed the Bible, instead of emotionalism, making the women sit down and be quite would wipe out the majority of people speaking gibberish in a church service.
Remember, as noted by Scripture, tongues are a KNOWN LANGUAGE.
BUMP to your #180.
I believe the gift of tongues is manifest in other ways besides "gibberish" and that it has a purpose to it when it is manifest. If it was just "gibberish," then Bob Dylan would be the gift of tongues' foremost expert.
Now, I need some help with my fireplace. Does anyone know anyone with the gift of tongs?