Absolutely! Today many argue against the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, especially tongues. They regard that which Father used to announce the resurrection of His Son and the birth of the church as something reproachful and even demonic. They not only forbid men to speak with tongues, contrary to the scripture, but persecute those who do speak with tongues. They would rather have that which man can do without the Holy Spirit than those things that are purely heavenly. Many commentaries will simply gloss over Paul’s intense emotions expressed in “earnestly desiring the spiritual,” and move right on to prophecy. They will then reduce prophecy to good insightful preaching that has been properly prepared through applied hermeneutical and exegetical processes. What’s worse is that intelligent and sincere people listen to their meaningless and contradictory arguments and accept them as truth. These Bible interpreters pretend to be an expert on something that they not only refuse to believe in, but even despise. They fail to realize that they are speaking against the Holy Spirit and argue that they can learn from men what only God can teach. Tongues are as real as the Holy Spirit is, and he speaks through His witnesses with thanksgiving and telling of the wonderful works of God (1 Corinthians 14:16-17, Acts 2:10)!