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After studying the Bible, Parham came to the conclusion that speaking in tongues was the Bible evidence that one had received the baptism with the Holy Spirit. In 1900, Parham opened Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas , America, where he taught initial evidence, a Charismatic belief about how to initiate the practice.
In Biblical studies, a gloss or glossa is an annotation written on margins or within the text of biblical manuscripts or printed editions of the scriptures. With regard to the Hebrew texts, the glosses chiefly contained explanations of purely verbal difficulties of the text; some of these glosses are of importance for the correct reading or understanding of the original Hebrew, while nearly ...
A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone.
Fifty days after the Resurrection, on the existing Jewish feast of Shavuot, while the disciples and many other followers of Jesus were gathered together to pray, the Holy Spirit descended upon them in the form of "cloven tongues of fire", with the sound of a rushing mighty wind, and they began to speak in languages that they did not know.
If a distinction is intended then 1 Corinthians 14:10 "There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning" may imply that "tongues of men" were intelligible, whereas 1 Corinthians 14:2 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit."
The hyrax, for chewing the cud without having cloven hooves; [2] [3] as the hyrax was not known to early English translators, the Hebrew term for this animal, שפן (shapan), has been interpreted in older English versions of the Bible as coney (rabbit, hare), a name with clear connections to words such as the Spanish conejo (rabbit).
Christ is the true Light, [9] and at his transfiguration the fashion Christian of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering; [10] when the Holy Ghost descended upon the apostles, there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire, and it sat upon each of them; [11] at the conversion of St Paul there shined round him a ...
Speaking in tongues is the phenomenon of speaking in unintelligible utterances, often as part of religious practices. Speaking in Tongues may also refer to: Music