QUESTION: If you are a Christian, but cannot speak in tongues, what can you do about it?

ANSWER: Speaking in tongues as happened in the first century is not the same as the gibberish that people in error engage in today! In the Bible we learn that to speak in tongues was simply to be able (without formal education) to speak a foreign language that already existed (Acts 2:1-11). This is not being done today, nor can it be!

The purpose of miracles and signs in Bible times was to confirm the Word of God (Mark 16:20) that was being spoken, but not yet written. When the Word of God (the perfect law of liberty – James 1:25) was completed, the “gifts” were to fail, cease, and vanish away (I Corinthians 13:8-13). Since the perfect Word of God was confirmed and written about the end of the first century, it follosws that at that time the miraculous, including speaking in tongues, passed away according to the will of God. Since we today have the same completed and confirmed Bible, which provides “all things that pertain to life and godliness” (II Peter 1:3), there is clearly no need for the “gifts” today. The faithful child of God will not be involved with such matters!