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Originally Posted by jfrog

I won't turn this into a debate. In my opinion:

The concept that tongues in 1 Corinthians 12 is about a "gift of tongues" as opposed to the "initial evidence of tongues" isn't a distinction that the bible explicitly reveals. Instead it's a derived belief that is absolutely necessary if the initial evidence of tongues doctrine is true.

If the initial evidence of tongues doctrine isn't true then Paul asserting that all do not speak in tongues would be universally true and there would be no biblical necessity for deriving the belief of different types of tongues (although there could still be different types of tongues even without scripture that suggests it).

Right.