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Ted Cruz Faces Questions About His Tithing History (Huckster Really Desperate)
BuzzFeed ^ | January 21, 2016 | McKay Coppins

Posted on 01/21/2016 10:04:45 AM PST by C19fan

With Ted Cruz clinging to a narrow lead in the fast-approaching Iowa caucuses, an increasingly vocal chorus of evangelical leaders and campaign rivals is questioning the authenticity of the candidate’s vaunted Christian faith by pointing to his reportedly meager record of charitable giving. In a series of interviews this week, political opponents and pastors alike suggested Cruz — an avowed Baptist who is aggressively courting evangelical voters — has flouted the Biblical commandment of tithing in his personal life.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; cruzmudwrestler; curz; potus
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To: libbylu
The many faces of TDS.


21 posted on 01/21/2016 10:27:56 AM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: Hoodat
Asking Trump??? hahaha. He would just tell you he does lots and lots of "good works"...and say it is his mocking manner.

Better question for Trump: Are you a Sinner? Simple Yes/No question. (my bet is that he would say NO, I go to Church, I'm a Presby...see my mothers bible, I have it right here.

Trump show us your Bible..your mother CAN'T get you into Heaven, your on your own, and the only "DEAL" you will make with GOD is asking for forgiveness and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior......

Make that deal Trump.....today and in PUBLIC.

22 posted on 01/21/2016 10:29:49 AM PST by annieokie
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To: C19fan

Considering “tithing” ended with the death of Jesus on the cross, most of this discussion is rooted in misinformation and false assumptions.


23 posted on 01/21/2016 10:31:33 AM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: C19fan

The Huckster should ask Donald Drumpf what he gave for 9/11 relief. The answer is quite round.


24 posted on 01/21/2016 10:36:25 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: roamer_1
you right, thank you for the correction, I appreciate it.

Shame on Huck

25 posted on 01/21/2016 10:38:32 AM PST by annieokie
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To: C19fan

Poor Huck. It’s tough trying to stay relevant when the people you court know that deep down, you’re still a used car salesman.


26 posted on 01/21/2016 10:40:26 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: libbylu

27 posted on 01/21/2016 10:45:09 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: Fhios

Well, it troubles me that Trump, when asked on two different occasions, claimed that he has no need of forgiveness from God. Odd, especially when he claims to be a Christian.


28 posted on 01/21/2016 10:46:15 AM PST by gbscott1954 (Why not a real Conservative?)
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To: libbylu

Where is there a mention of Donald? Have you taken your medications today?


29 posted on 01/21/2016 10:46:15 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: libbylu

Oh my. The bloom has come off the Cruz rose.

Cruz says one thing, does another.

Surely he could have tithed some of that Goldman Sachs money.


30 posted on 01/21/2016 10:47:41 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: Hoodat

Trump does not present himself as the evangelical Christian Cruz
says he is.


31 posted on 01/21/2016 10:48:59 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: C19fan

Uhh, there is no tithing called for in the New Testament. Does Huck not know that?


32 posted on 01/21/2016 10:50:02 AM PST by mtrott
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To: Hoodat

Trump is not running as a holier than thou evangelical Christian. Cruz is.


33 posted on 01/21/2016 10:50:57 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: annieokie
Shame on Huck

That's right. And Christians everywhere will look askance exactly as you did. All Huck is doing is making himself disreputable.

34 posted on 01/21/2016 10:51:58 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: C19fan

I am a Trumper and this is stupid. What Cruz tithes at his Church isn’t anything I worry about.


35 posted on 01/21/2016 10:56:13 AM PST by dforest
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To: Duchess47

I challenge you to find one statement of Cruz claiming to be “holier than thou”. HE does say that in the political arena, you shall know them by their fruits.


36 posted on 01/21/2016 10:57:30 AM PST by mtrott
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To: gbscott1954

It’s his way of saying it’s nunya. None of your business. I never took it for anything else other than his way of saying it’s an inappropriate question.

If that’s your single issue for not voting for him, then so be it.

I don’t care about Cruz s tithing nor Trumps confessions.


37 posted on 01/21/2016 10:58:50 AM PST by Fhios (Just say no to the apostrophe on FR.)
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To: C19fan
This is dumb. I do not care about this or how many people unfriended Palin on facebook.
38 posted on 01/21/2016 11:05:09 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (I like Trump and Cruz. Leave me the heck alone.)
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To: G Larry

There is no obligation to trumpet your giving.

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Nor is there a New Testament obligation to tithe.


39 posted on 01/21/2016 11:11:00 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Bryan24

Considering “tithing” ended with the death of Jesus on the cross, most of this discussion is rooted in misinformation and false assumptions.

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You “get it”

Jesus lived a perfect life under the Jewish law and he fulfilled the old law, so we didn’t have to try to live a perfect life, that only He could possibly do.

We now live under Jesus’ New Covenent. Praise God for that.

You’ll probably never hear an “Evangelical” preacher admit that tithing is not a law Christians have to obey, they are either ignorant or dishonest.


40 posted on 01/21/2016 11:20:13 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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