It was to confirm to Unbelieving Jews that the NEW WORDs that the Apostles were Teaching were as much the WORD OF GOD and those Words in the Old Testament, for the JEWS REQUIRE A SIGN.
1 Corinthians 14:21-22 (NIV)
21 In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord.
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
Mark 16:20 (NIV)
20 Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them
and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
As far as I am concerned, tongues in the Charismatic Church and Pentecostal Churches, in 1906, fell for a man made COUNTERFEIT, after it CEASED after the NEW TESTAMENT WORDS were validated by the APOSTLES to ENOUGH JEWS.
Matthew 16:4 (ESV)
4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.
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IT IS A SETTLED ISSUE FOR ME and most other Non-Charismatics, like the expression goes: You are whipping a dead horse.