I think the experience of Pentecost set a pattern, which God reproduced in the experience of different racial and geographical people groups, to show and confirm to the believing Jewish church that God Himself had fully and completely accepted a new group. The Spirit’s manifestation in Acts (i.e. Pentecost) is thereby theologically different from the Corinthian tongues. This text cannot be used to demand a Corinthian-like experience to confirm salvation (cf. 1 Cor. 12:29–30, which is a series of
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