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Does This Video Show Ted Cruz’s Father Speaking in Tongues?
The Blaze ^ | Mar. 11, 2016 11:07am | Billy Hallowell

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 ...


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To: VerySadAmerican

[These days most churches pick and choose what parts of the Bible they’ll preach.]

It’s in the Book. That’s the way it will be.

Speaking in tongues is a Spiritual gift. I am thankful I have that gift.


41 posted on 03/11/2016 5:04:31 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed in the nation whose God is the Lord)
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To: left that other site

I am. And I am a Trump supporter.

I have never heard any Pentecostal minister say that a person was “ordained to be a king to reign over America.”


42 posted on 03/11/2016 5:05:10 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: stocksthatgoup

Depends. If you have an interpreter it should be easy.


43 posted on 03/11/2016 5:06:06 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Thanks to your father. Tell us more. Details. From a plane, when, where, etc?

We need to know about our unsung heroes.


44 posted on 03/11/2016 5:07:12 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: pcottraux

I do too. I did not think the Drudge headline was weird, but many will.


45 posted on 03/11/2016 5:07:34 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ghosthost

As long as he isn’t speaking with a FORKED TONGUE like a Democrat Silver-Tongued Devil, he can say anything he wants.


46 posted on 03/11/2016 5:08:26 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

PB Martin Mariner - Black Cat Squadron in the South Pacific, 1944.


47 posted on 03/11/2016 5:09:53 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!)
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To: Tax-chick

Let the hate mongering begin. God forbid a christian be elected. I may not be a pentecostal but the whole bible when taken out of context looks crazy to non spiritual people. http://biblehub.com/nlt/1_corinthians/2.htm

True christians can’t quite make sense of the world either such as why or how people can chop children up in the womb without anesthesia for convenience sake then sell them like meat. Or condemn and steal people’s homes so a super rich realtor can build a casino.


48 posted on 03/11/2016 5:14:10 PM PST by applpie
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

“Who believes Cruz is a better candidate in the general?”

CRUZ AND FAMILY.


49 posted on 03/11/2016 5:14:14 PM PST by kagnew
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To: stocksthatgoup

Who cares?


50 posted on 03/11/2016 5:15:02 PM PST by applpie
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To: Tax-chick
Yeah, right.

What's the sarcasm to? I've been posting that sermon from Rafael Cruz talking about his anointed king son for quite awhile. It is the theology of Rafael Cruz, and Cruz has been sending him around-- as part of the campaign-- to get the endorsements of prominent dominionists around the country for quite awhile.

51 posted on 03/11/2016 5:25:05 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: pcottraux

Back in the 80’s, my mother’s secretary was CoG. She was young and unmarried, had just graduated from business college. My mother liked her very much, said she was very sweet, kind hearted, and an honest, hard worker. She didn’t cut her hair and wore rather frumpy dresses as I remember, but she was nice. The previous secretary had stolen from petty cash, more than once.


52 posted on 03/11/2016 5:25:09 PM PST by kalee
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To: jessduntno

I do not find this amusing as the elder Cruz is know for his fabrications of what he did in Cuba. I find this troubling.


53 posted on 03/11/2016 5:34:33 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I do.


54 posted on 03/11/2016 5:36:07 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Tax-chick

Pentecostal is the new Seventh Day Adventist. Being Seventh Day Adventist was bad but it’s okay now because Trump.


55 posted on 03/11/2016 5:37:27 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Lumper20

“I do not find this amusing as the elder Cruz is know for his fabrications of what he did in Cuba. I find this troubling.”

Irrelevant to our campaigns here. I find something troubling with EVERYONE and/or someone in their families.


56 posted on 03/11/2016 5:38:21 PM PST by jessduntno ("Where the Hell do you put the bayonet?" - Gen. "Chesty" Puller, at a flamethrower demonstration.)
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To: Larry Lucido

So many things are okay now because Trump. Planned Parenthood, anyone?


57 posted on 03/11/2016 5:39:44 PM PST by Tax-chick (Have a colonoscopy first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen the rest of the day.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

How do you read the Blaze and get Trump did it?


58 posted on 03/11/2016 5:43:01 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: jessduntno
They don't celebrate Easter and Christmas

They are the weirdos who go knocking on Doors on Saturday.

Not even Christians.

59 posted on 03/11/2016 5:44:20 PM PST by scooby321
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
So now the Trump tactic is to ridicule religious people?

When did Trump do that? Drudge is promoting this story, not Trump.

60 posted on 03/11/2016 5:48:21 PM PST by MaxFlint
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