There are many traditions regarding the baptism of the Holy Spirit that can be debunked by a closer look at the scriptures. Nowhere in the Bible is speaking in tongues the prerequisite mark of salvation, but rather, the instances in Acts were a mark of the unifying work through the Spirit of God, grafting in the Gentiles and the Samaritans. We are all part of the Body of Christ, and a diversity of gifts is given to build up that body; the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. We are to rejoice in the fact that God has gifted us, and we’re not to neglect that gift.
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1 Corinthians 12:1-14 King James Version
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
