I'm fairly convinced that the "tongues" in Scripture are actual human languages, and that the ones we see in the charismatic movement today are either gibberish, or demonic.

I have had Charismatic friends whom I do believe to be genuinely regenerate. I don't think this is necessarily a salvation issue unless one elevates "tongues" or any other form of "special, personal revelation" to a plane comparable to (much less equal to or higher than) Scripture. But many Charismatics, like many other Evangelicals, are semi-Pelagian, and I do think this is a salvation issue; the person who thinks he or she is responsible for their own salvation still has self as his or her "God," and not God as He really and truly Is.


Aspiring student of Christ