Biblical Tongues

I recommend the site of Renton Maclachlan. In my humble opinion this is the only legitimate exposition of the passages relating to tongues in the Bible. These understandings challenge the long held “language miracle” view of the relevant passages by the Church.

I was first introduced to this understanding by the hosts of the White Horse Inn radio program in the mid-nineties who advanced Robert Zerhusen’s theory. I’m not sure whether the hosts believe this theory or were setting it forth as another option.

The Pentecostal persecutors of God’s people need to be silenced. Their damnable doctrines hold many Christians captive. In order to relieve the burden that Pentecostalism places upon Christians, if indeed one is burdened (many are not, but they should be), one should start with O’ Palmer Robertson’s book “The Final Word…” In this book Robertson makes the case that tongues is prophecy uninterpreted. This puts the burden back on the neo-Montanists who subsequently must prove that what they are speaking is on the level of Scripture. In their arrogance many neo-Montanists have tried to do so.

While Robertson may likely hold to the “language miracle” view his, and Charles Hodge’s, exposition of 1 Corinthians 14 do alleviate those suffering under this malevolent neo-Montanist, nay, Satanic, burden. Of course Satan’s goal is to corrupt the simplicity of the gospel of Christ robbing God of His glory and the Christian of his joy.

While Hodge and Robertson relieve the burden placed on unsuspecting Christians by the neo-Montanists, I believe Maclachlan’s book and Zerhusen’s tracts bring full clarity to the issue.

There are many like the neo-Montanists, wittingly or not, who would try to bring Christians back into captivity. Their false doctrines are myriad, for example, the Lutheran doctrine of “real presence.” What Luther boasted that he gained from Romans 1:17 he overturned by his servile clinging to Catholic mysticism and misinterpretation of “This is my body.” It is as the scripture states about them, “promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.” And, ” As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.” The enslavers do this because the gospel of free grace in Christ is to burdensome, it is the smell of death to them.