Posted on 03/11/2016 4:18:25 PM PST by drewh
A video featuring Rafael Cruz, father of Republican presidential Ted Cruz, that was originally posted last month is gaining renewed attention, with claims that it features the elder Cruz praying in tongues.
The Drudge Report published a link to the clip on Friday with the headline, ’DAD SPEAKING IN TONGUES.” The video in question features Pastor Kenneth Copeland saying from the pulpit that he believes that Ted Cruz is “anointed to be the next president of the United States.”
After Copeland is seen inviting Rafael Cruz to the stage, the two discuss how Ted Cruz spent six months steeped in prayer with his family before deciding to run for the presidency — a story that the candidate’s father also recently shared with TheBlaze.
It’s what happened next, though, that is capturing attention, as some believe that Cruz is seen in the video “speaking in tongues” (also known as glossolalia) — a religious gift that purportedly permits certain Christians to speak and interpret a special language that comes directly from God.
Or, as Encyclopedia Britannica defines it, “utterances approximating words and speech, usually produced during states of intense religious experience.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
I don’t understand what you’re saying.
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Speaking in tongues is easy. Understanding it is difficult.
*tiny snicker*
My kids could try using that as an excuse when I say their essays are word salad.
During WWII, my father dropped a torpedo on a Japanese submaring and reported an oil slick and debris field after detonation.
I guess I’m guilty of murdering about 100 Japanese people.
Should I turn myself in?
“I speak in tongues more than any of you”...St. Paul
Yes...I hear you. It is really sad that Ted’s religion has become a point of mockery on this website. I know we have many faiths represented here, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, Mormon, Evangelical, and Pentecostal. There are prayers threads that are faithfully maintained for our troops, for America, for Israel, and for ANY individual FReeper who asks for prayer.
I know that when I needed prayer, because of the suicide of my husband, FR had REAMS of prayer for me from ALL of the above-mentioned groups. It was humbling and beautiful.
This sudden hostility to one group of Christians is very disturbing.
I saw this on Drudge and honestly thought this was over the top.
Drudge hurt himself today.
I’d explain what he’s saying, but the Missus and I are indulging in some post-dinner serpent handling. ;)
Turn on the Closed Captioning - I laughed so hard I woke the dog...
Open your ears. His father is saying Hallelujah. He is not speaking in so called tongues, and what if he was?
I was brought up in the Church of God and they spoke in tongues. Their belief was that if someone spoke in tongues someone else in the church would interpret what the speaker said. My mother believed in it until the day she died.
All religions change over the years. As the public starts to make fun of people speaking in tongues churches stop doing it. The church I grew up in taught that women should not cut their hair. In the 80s they dropped the rule. I was never told that God sent them word that it was okay to go to the beauty shop.
And keep in mind the Mormons quit having plural marriages. However, they never said Joseph Smith was wrong so it’s still part of their “belief”.
Is the implication here that people speaking in tongues are crazy, and this somehow disqualifies Cruz from running? Is it supposed to indicate that he is a crazy, religious lunatic whose father is in a deranged evangelical cult?
Well guess what? I have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and I speak in tongues every day, and I’m proud of it! I believe that for the true Pentecostal, tongues should flow from our lips, like living waters. And when I do, the tip of my tongue burns, like it’s on fire: Acts 2:3-4 describes the tongue of fire landing on each of the disciples accompanying the manifestation.
I guess I’m a member of the deranged evangelical Christian-right looney-bin cult, too. All my intense studying of current events and issues doesn’t count. Oh well.
In any event, I’ve seen how bad it’s gotten on FR on Trump vs. Cruz and have elected to stay out of it. Though I personally support Cruz but can live with a Trump nomination (I think we’re going to have to), but this video obviously doesn’t persuade me away from Cruz.
“The latest anti-Cruz point is that “Pentecostal” is a dirty word. I’m just flabbergasted at this, frankly..”
It’s so changed since I was here regularly.
Hate, hate, hate.
I notice you quote One Corinthians. Just kidding.
These days most churches pick and choose what parts of the Bible they’ll preach.
So now the Trump tactic is to ridicule religious people? Nice.
It is when you combine it with the word "Dominionist" and "Ted is anointed to be a King to redestribute the wealth of the wicked into the hands of the righteous."
I’m drinking the demon cheap red wine from Argentina. We used to have a snake, but she died.
I hope no one took my post wrong. I don’t see what Ted’s father does in a Church has anything to do with his campaign.
However, I do have a problem with a candidate who will claim Christianity to get votes then hang out with a fraud like Kenneth Copeland.
I’m Church of God, although I came up in the 90s after they’d dropped the legalism. (Although occasionally I see some elder women who still refuse to wear make-up, short hair, jewelry, anything other than long skirts, etc., simply as a matter of personal preference).
Church has changed over the years, and while I don’t agree with any of those practices, I am holiness and will die holiness. I still go to my church because our pastor still preaches the blood of Jesus, speaking in tongues, living free from sin, and miracles and healings. I really no longer care about denomination; the moment that changes, I will be out the door to never return. Mankind may change over the years, but God doesn’t. We wonder why the power isn’t there anymore...
Dittos. I’ve had people of many religions plus just nice people rally around when I’ve had the need. I’m not liking this trend.
Yeah, right.
I’m in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. We pray in tongues, too. I have a friend at the gym who is a Church of God pastor, retired from chaplaincy in the Army.
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