IS SPEAKING IN TONGUES EVIDENCE OF BEING BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT? That is a big "NO" because every individual receives the Holy Spirit of God at his or her moment of salvation through Jesus, which is the exact instant when the Holy Spirit indwells the body of every new Christian—and He stays there inside you for your entire remaining life! On top of that, Acts 2 and elsewhere in Scripture show us that speaking in tongues does not always occur during biblical accounts of conversions;; there are plenty where no one speaks in tongues. Besides that, biblical speaking in tongues never involved talking gibberish, as some practice in the Church today. Every place it appears in the Bible, speaking in tongues is always in a known language and never gibberish like we see today. In fact, gibberish is a practice in cults and the pagan occult, so that practice is concerning, as are other of today's tongues teachings that are not biblical.