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Yes, of course, I'm a linguist and the phenomenon of glossolalia is an interest of mine. "There are literally less than 50 true college and professional linguistic's worldwide who travel and study the differences between races, creeds, and territorial" Not sure what you're getting at - one...

That's a rather fanciful remark. I'm not attempting to disprove anything. I completely believe that the Holy Spirit bestows gifts as it will. It's more a linguistic exercise than anything.

Yes - many actors do this when pretending to speak a foreign language (faux German, French, etc.) Well, Paul's "tongues of angels" is pure hyperbole, but it would be relatively easy enough to determine if what is being uttered meets the universal criteria of "language"; i.e., whether or not...

I wasn’t going to post anything on this thread, but linguistic curiosity has gotten the better of me…. I‘m hoping that some one can post a link to a YT video, a sound clip, whatever, of someone speaking in what you perceive to be real, legitimate tongues, and then the same for someone you...

Phenomenon in the sense of an observable fact/situation; not in the sense of a ‘fad’. Again, glossolalia itself is a real thing; it’s not “fake”; nor is the experience – it is something that can be explained in rather simple linguistic terms; however, not one person ‘speaking tongues’ (in the...

Yes, if a person learned their second (or third., etc. ) language; it's not modern tongues speech (not sure I fully understand what you're saying).

With all due respect, when it comes to the study of Biblical 'tongues', whether one is born again or not is completely irrelevant. The modern phenomenon is what it is. There are many things which must be taken on faith; they can neither be proved nor disproved. “Tongues” however, is not one of...

Yes - I don't believe he was bragging either - Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles – it stands to reason he would use his knowledge of foreign languages more than the average person to spread the Gospel, and thanked God for giving him the ability to do so. A frequent use of foreign languages...

I'd say no - there are still many inhabited places in the world today that are still quite inaccessible. As others pointed out, it may be readily accessible and have been "preached" in many places, but that doesn't necessarily equate to people accepting it. I will say that as a linguist, the...

Hardly worth a comment, but it amazes me how each year, certain Christian denominations take what is a very Germanic pre-Christian custom and equate it to that well known verse in Jeremiah which, of course has squat to do with Christmas trees (or even evergreen trees for that matter).

The Manx celebrate it too - considered the oldest tradition on the Island, but its been mingled with the American Halloween. The Manx know it as "Hop tu Naa" - a celebration of the Celtic "new year" - really the onset of the dark half of the year marked with a lot of traditional music and dance.

Yep - VLEE-in NOO-ah HAW-nah KHAYL-chahkh (rough pronunciation in a more northern Irish Gaelic - 'kh' like Scottish 'ch' in "loch", or German in "Bach")

PART 2 Lastly, *All Saint’s Day* - All Saint’s Day/All Souls Day/Halloween, and Samhain developed _completely independent_ of each other. That’s just historical fact. No matter how much some people like to promote and honestly believe that just the opposite is true. To state it briefly, the...

PART 1 Guess this needs to be in parts due to size - Modern Halloween as we know it today is just that – a modernly invented secular ‘holiday’ combining elements of an earlier American tradition called “Hell Night”, along with a healthy dose of good old “Hollywood” thrown in for good measure...

My answer is not in defense of the below, just answering OP's question... It depends on how you define “witch” – for most (conservative) Christians, ‘witch’, ‘Devil worshiper’ and ‘Satanist’ seem to be essentially synonymous. They are, of course not. I cannot speak for the latter two, but...

Should have added to my post - if you were redheaded AND were left-handed; there was basically no hope for you - you were pretty much considered to be in league with Satan and doomed to hell.

It's a lot older than the 1800's.

You took the words out of my mouth. Yes, in Medieval Germany (and I'm sure other places as well), women with red hair were considered to be evil witches. During the Spanish Inquisition, it was believed that red hair was a result of its wielder stealing fires from hell, and so many were...

Yes, people love to cherry pick phrases or verses and use them to mean one thing ; however, when put into context of the entire text, these verses, etc. tend not to mean what people imagine them to. And, yes, historical context is also very important. As an example, the phrase "the whole...

Also your former posts - I have to beg to differ. I never suggested that these plants were borrowed with the same meaning or context - again, the pagenness has been bred out for well over 1.000 years. Neither mistletoe or holly is native to what is now the Middle East.