Who is Rev. David Bauscher?

[Stephen Silver]

As we all know, there are many Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians, who believe that one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the ability to speak in a Heavenly Language not known to mankind and you can find them in all the mainline Christian Protestant denominations, as well as in the Messianic Jewish congregations...

Shlama Akhi:
The only place in scripture that gives any clue that lashana is also a heavenly language is in I Corinthians 13:1. Here the phrase tongues of angels is interpreted to mean heavenly language. However, the word for angel is the same for messenger in it's generic form malakha. So the phrase could just as well be languages of messengers/diplomats. There is no solid evidence that speaking in tongues is referring to anything but known languages.
Given church history, is it credible that this latent gift of the Holy Spirit would not be known till the early 20th Century at the Azuza Street revival meetings? I spent three decades of my Christian life "speaking in tongues" and only came to a realization of the falsehood when I began to read the Peshitta New Testament. For the most part it's a harmless sylablic exercise of prayer but to follow the doctrine of tongues to the extent that the Pentecostal and charismatic churches have, leads to confusion. Been there, done that and got the T-shirt!!

Shlama,
Stephen
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