I am a Catholic. All the protestant denominations seem kind of the same to me. Is belonging to a Pentecostal church a big deal?
I love Pentecostals, but I think they’d have a really hard time getting elected in the general election. I’m glad this came out now, and not in October as Cruz as the nominee.
Indeed, this is posted by anti-christian individuals, but my problem is not pentecostalism or evangelicalism, it is dominionism. The author does eventually get to the dominionism but in some form equates it with pentacostals and evangelicals – which it is not. Dominionism is unbiblical and in fact the opposite of God’s plan – God did not say go and take over governments(and arts and entertainment and finance etc.) to usher in the Kingdom Age. Dominionism is the problem not pentecostalism or evangelicalism.
This speaking in tongues and “anointed king” stuff is what makes a lot (I daresay, the majority, even fellow Christians such as myself) of people look sideways at some Christian sects as wacky nutjobs.
General election poison, if you ask me.
The Dems loved running against a Mormon as they knew that Evangelicals wouldn't turn out for a Mormon. Now they know regular Americans won't turn out for a guy whose family speaks in tongues.
The Pentecostal movement began in 1908. Since then, inflation has been such that what cost a penny then costs about a dollar now, so perhaps they should be considered Dollarcostals.
OK, as the Dog Star said, I’ll be Sirius. If Cruz is a Pentecostal, he is at worst heterodox, but in all the necessities of salvation he would agree with the standard creeds, and by any Scriptural standard he is a saved Christian—certainly more so than our 2012 GOP nominee, and with less of a question than the “other” competitor for the present GOP nomination.
Birth of Multiculturalism
In anticipation of the revolutionary storm that would baptize the world in an inferno of red terror, leading to its rebirth as the promised land of social justice and proletarian equality-Frederich Engels wrote,
“All the...large and small nationalities are destined to perish...in the revolutionary world storm... (A general war will) wipe out all...nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only reactionary classes...but...reactionary peoples.” (”The Magyar Struggle,” Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Jan. 13, 1849)
By the end of WWI, socialists realized that something was amiss, for the world’s proletariat had not heeded Marx’s call to rise up in opposition to evil capitalism and to embrace communism instead. They wondered what had gone wrong.
Separately, two Marxist theorists-Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary-concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order. The West would have to be conquered first.
Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the workers class. The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a “long march through the culture.” Additionally, a new proletariat must be created. In his “Prison Notebooks,” he suggested that the new proletariat be comprised of many criminals, women, and racial minorities.
The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history. All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.
Excerpted...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html
Pentecostal is main-stream Christianity.
Trappings are different, but fundamental beliefs are solid.
Good grief......did the "republican base" turn into a bunch of religious bigots in the last few years........or is this just another symptom of Trump?
I can't speak to his Christianity, but I do think Ted Cruz is a lawyer who knows how to speak to the jury and a politician who knows how to speak to an audience of potential voters.
What is dominionism?
Dominionism, in the context of politics and religion, is the tendency among some politically activeconservative Christians to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action, especially in the United States. It is also known as subjectionism.[1] The goal is either a nation governed by Christians, or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law. The use and application of this terminology is a matter of controversy.”
Dominionism is the belief that Christ cannot return until all the believers in Christ rise and take dominion over the world. They hope to achieve this by taking over the seven most influential areas of society. These seven areas are: religion, family, business, arts/entertainment media, education, and government. This is often referred to as the Seven Mountain Mandate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom...
What is Mormonism?
Unlike most other Christian groups, Mormonism espouses a distinctly nontrinitarian theology in regards to the nature of God. The LDS Church teaches that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three separate and distinct beings, the Father and Son having perfected physical bodies and the Holy Ghost having only a body of spirit. While the three beings are physically distinct, in Mormon theology they are one in thoughts, actions, and purpose and commonly referred to collectively as “the “Godhead”.Also, Mormonism teaches that God the Father is the literal father of the spirits of all men and women, which existed prior to their mortal existence.The LDS Church also believes that a Heavenly Mother exists. Further, it is believed that all humans as children of God can become exalted, inheriting all that God has, as joint-heirs with Christ, and becoming like him as a God.
Glenn Beck Promotes Seven Mountains Dominionism
September 27, 2015 by Ed Brayton 35 Comments
GlennBeckIn a rather odd turn of events, Glenn Beck is now promoting Seven Mountains theology, a dominionist Christian theology that says Christians must take control of what they consider the seven key institutions of human societies. He invited David Barton on his show, as he so often does, along with George Barna, a Christian right pollster, to discuss the matter.
GLENN: I want to give you the seven mountains of culture. Business, government, media, arts, and entertainment, education, family, and religion. Those are seven mountains of culture. And if you want to destroy or build a culture, you have to have those seven mountains. We have lost the mountain of business. They don’t even teach ethics anymore. We’re not teaching moral sentiments anymore. We’re just teaching raw capitalism. The best business schools in the country, when the professor stands up and says, “Okay, so here’s your case study, was that good or bad, was that right or wrong? The hands go up and say, did it make money?” And so we’ve lost business.
We’ve lost government. The media, I don’t know if we’ve ever had. Arts and entertainment, we’ve never had. Education is gone to us. The last two mountains of culture — and if we lose these two, we’re done. The family. It is absolutely under attack. And the last one is religion. And religion, I think at this point, is neutral. It could go either way. The same thing with the family. But it is certainly not a positive impact. And I will get into that here, just a bit with this amazing pollster and researcher on the culture, George Barna. And he’s with the Barna Group. And he’s a Christian polling firm that goes out and looks for what is affecting the culture. What is actually happening? David Barton is joining us, because this actually started with a conversation we had, how long ago, David Barton?
DAVID: Oh, it’s probably been about almost two months ago, Glenn.
GLENN: Okay. So we started having a conversation — why don’t you tell the story how we got here.
DAVID: Yeah, we were having a conversation, and you said, “We need to get people to get their pastors to preach about stuff. What do we ask them to preach about?” And I looked at you and said, “I don’t have a clue, but I think I know someone who does.” So I called George that night and said, “George, here’s the deal. Glenn would like to have people ask their pastors to preach about certain things. What do people want to hear? What do they want to —
GLENN: Looking for leaders.
DAVID: Looking for leaders.
GLENN: In our pulpits.
Now here’s what makes this weird: The self-declared “prophets” of Seven Mountains theology believe that Mormonism is a heretical cult, and if they took over and created a theocracy of the kind they want, Mormons would likely be persecuted.
Is Glenn Beck Mormon?
Glenn Beck is also a convert to the Mormon faith, joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1999 along with his wife and children. If you do one thing on this site, be sure to watch the video where he talks about his conversion story in more detail!
Ted Cruz’s father is a Dominion, and Glenn Beck is a Mormon, and this is, IMHO, shows how the two unite....dangerous combination!!!
War on Christianity. And FReepers enlisting.
Never thought to see it.
Bizarre.
This video and the fact that Ted admitted that essentially he doesn’t tithe tells me that his faith is largely a charade. By far my biggest concern about him.
https://youtu.be/KqpHTFJO4mE
in the early 70s, after my mother died, I left the catholic church and began wandering. Didn’t become a Buddhist or a Rastafarian, went to holiness churches, Baptist Churches, Methodist, almost every mainstream denomination.Didn’t handle snakes though. The point is, this insinuation is a load of crap. Ted Cruz is not a liar, he’s not a crazy, he is Christian. And the fact he mentions God in most of his speeches is bothersome to a lot of people. I imagine he knows that.
I fail to get Drudge’s epiphany.
And Carson is a Seventh-Day Adventist. Of course that only mattered before. It doesn’t matter anymore.
What about the NWO connections; Goldman Sachs, CFR?
The question I have always had about Cruz (aside from the NBC issue) are these connections. Unlike Trump, Cruz cannot self fund and NWO organizations would be better able to control and manipulate Cruz via financial means.
Cruz has a very good voting record and an overall better record on the issues of concern to conservatives than Trump.
We can only pray that his Christian faith will guide him if he is elected president. If he fears God and cares about his eternal salvation, he will need to courageously defy the Satanic forces of the globalists despite all their power and money.
Should we think that Cruz can do this? Does he acknowledge these ties and influences? Has he given any direct or indirect evidence of this?
Whew,thanks,for a minute I thought you were going to say he was a Muslim
Disgusting attempt by Drudge to smear Cruz based on his religion. This is going to backfire bigtime. Drudge is completely indistinguishable from MSDNC on this one. They’re the ones who would normally sit there in gasped tones trying to demonize someone over their Christian faith.
You can’t support Trump without rejecting this country’s Judeo-Christian values. Drudge is as atheistic as it comes and rumored to be a closet homosexual himself for a long time. I think that might even be on the “open secret” level by this point.
This is an example of how the Hillary campaign along with the MSM would portray Ted Cruz as a religious extremist.
Exactly what is this article trying to suggest? That “Pentecostals” are somehow suspect or not Christian? I think John Ashcroft would disagree, as would Sarah Palin and millions of other Christians just in this country alone.