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 am not fond of Copeland either.
However, I think Drudge jumped the shark mocking Ted’s father’s religion.
I am really sad about all the acrimony between Trump and Cruz. They would have made a good team.
So am I. But I will never let my church dictate who I vote for. So I guess we are in the same boat.
I make my own decisions about those things. :-)
One of the things that is really hurtful from fellow FReepers is the snake-handling jokes.
That is done by a tiny rural sect, and does not represent the majority of Pentecostals or charismatics.
Oh Well. i forgive them...what can you do?
I will be glad when this election is over.
I have heard friends tell me the old man comes along with son and campaign staff and he goes right into this. You are saying what I have heard. Sad, the old man needs to get his story straight on Cuba as a Cuban who served in Vietnam with SF is well respected by all of us and he said his parents could not believe any Cuban did not know Castro was commie back then. That surprised me a bit. Now Rubio’s father and mother worked for Meyer Lansky and went to Vegas to tend bar.
I am really sad about all the acrimony between Trump and Cruz.
They would have made a good team.
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Possibly but I personally don’t see them as a compatible team. Both are
very head strong in their aims and beliefs. JMO
and??????
It works this way, anything negative, no matter how valid, posted about a particular candidate are lies, damned lies, old news, irrelevant, not this shit again, how many times is this going to be posted, etc., while anything no matter how ridiculous or insulting posted about any other candidate is God's truth and valid.
I agree. Teddy Roosevelt is credited with this :“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
The only one of these guys running who has really been in the arena in my book is Trump. Yes, a businessman is going to make mistakes and tick a few off. Rubio and Cruz are the real critics and they have not been in the arena. I want this country back. I am tired of PAC’s and Wall Street plus our elected ones selling us out to the highest bidder. I honestly believe they are.
They are very much opposite, but one’s weakness is the other’s strength.
Big egos on both though, so you are probably right.
Hahahahahaha. True.
the Bible on Speaking in Tongues
1 Corinthians 14:23 - If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
1 Corinthians 14:2 - For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Mark 16:17 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Acts 2:4 - And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 19:6 - And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Rafael Cruz also has many significant problems with his life story. He has claimed to have fought in battles, fire bombed buildings, and been present when certain revolutionaries died, but contradicted by his own testimony, either giving wrong locations or else having it revealed he was at home with ma and pa. And other “revolutionaries” claiming Rafael was not involved in any violent action.
So?
...This sudden hostility to one group of Christians is very disturbing....
Hostility to some Christians may be disturbing, say something against the southern flag and they go crazy. Post a story on Israel and nobody has anything to say. If a bus blew up in Tel Aviv nothing, but mention the racist implications of the confederate flag and you’ll never hear the end of it.
Oh I know. That too.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh. OK.
After doing our taxes today, I’m reduced to Costco scotch.
That is what I have been told about the old man also, and; I double checked on those claims. I find it very suspicious how Cruz is supported by so many billionaires, whether the owner of Wrigley Field and the Cubs, Goldman Sachs,the Koch Bros, Gay Hotel owners, Citicorp, Title and loan types, billionaires who made it by fracking, and the list goes on. Who doesn’t he work for? “US”. What he did to Carson in Iowa along with those flyers claiming to be official is to much. I could not live with myself if I operated like Cruz does, Trump is right about him .
Sad. Costco can’t sell Scotch here - it’s a state monopoly.
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