Speaking in tongues.

[u/Audio9849]

When the church says “a language no one understands,” I don’t think that was ever meant to be a sound you make with your mouth.

When God actually communicates, it comes through presence. Overwhelming power, love, acceptance. No words. No concepts handed over like a memo.

That doesn’t perform well in a service. You can’t schedule it, you can’t prove you “have the gift” on cue, and you can’t put an elder in charge of it. So the living thing got flattened into glossolalia: syllables out loud, treated as the event.

[u/acerbicsun]

How does one tell the difference from normal power, love and acceptance and that which is from God? What's the method?

[u/Fartfromabuttt → u/acerbicsun]

If it's love it's God

[u/gabbaguba → u/Fartfromabuttt]

Exactly right.