Do All Speak With
Tongues?
By Michael
A. H. Back
Paul asks a number of
questions in I Corinthians 12: 29-31, including "Do all speak
with tongues?" Does the text indicate the answer to these
questions should be "yes," or "no"? How do you know?
In Greek, you can
construct "yes or no" questions in such a way that they are
rhetorical, and the answer is built in to the question (starting the
question with the Greek word "me" indicates no, starting it
with the Greek word "ou" indicates
yes). In these verses,
Paul starts each question, including the question about
"tongues," with "me" which means the answer to
each and every one is NO!
