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Stop Calling Ted Cruz a Dominionist
Christianity Today ^ | April 6, 2016 | Robert Gagnon and Edith Humphrey

Posted on 04/07/2016 8:19:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Senator Ted Cruz has often stated that Jesus Christ is central to his life. He talks about how his father had left his family but returned after receiving the gospel, how his mother turned to Christ, and how this changed his life:

I was raised in the church.… When I was eight years old… [I] gave [my life] to Jesus. … [To] know that… I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, nothing is more important to me. I am a new creature in Christ, and it [is] central to who I am today.

I couldn’t run for president without relying heavily on my faith…. From the day we launched the campaign, Heidi and I have prayed simply that his will would be done. Each day, we try not to seek his hand (asking for help winning the race), but rather to seek his face (praying that his love and glory would be seen every day in the campaign).

Cruz’s unashamed affirmation of Christ resonates deeply with many Christians. But it has also created concern among many Christians and non-Christians alike. In this article, we’d like to clarify what we believe are misrepresentations of Cruz’s faith and its relationship to his politics....

(Excerpt) Read more at christianitytoday.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
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To: MIA_eccl1212
The southern evangelicals KNOW that Ted is a fraud. They sent him packing...

Like who? Perhaps Judge Roy Moore. Nope, he (his wife actually since he is not allowed to really comment) supports Cruz especially after Trump wanted to put in SC position the person (Pryor) that took him down questioning his religion. I am southern Christian, wasn't me. It was Southern low information voters. The gun forums in the south supported Cruz (often on a razor edge but they did support him over Trump mainly due to Trumps past of supporting a gun grab). Example: the largest gun group in Alabama had a poll and Cruz won it by just over 50%.

I think if the South had it to do over. A lot of them wouldn't vote Trump again.

141 posted on 04/07/2016 11:37:43 PM PDT by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: LowOiL

I think if the South had it to do over. A lot of them wouldn’t vote Trump again.


speculation.
as it stands... Cruz lost amongst evangelicals across the south.
fact.


142 posted on 04/07/2016 11:46:08 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (When you see a drowning liberal, throw them the anchor...)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

“Now, I don’t know...”

Genuine Christians would not and could not bear false witness ass Ted Cruz has done and is doing with regard to his retaining Canadian citizenship until 2014 and in regard to his actual status as a naturalized U.S. citizen and ineligibility for the Office of the President of the United States of America.


143 posted on 04/07/2016 11:50:59 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX
Genuine Christians would not and could not bear false witness ass Ted Cruz has done and is doing with regard to his retaining Canadian citizenship until 2014 and in regard to his actual status as a naturalized U.S. citizen and ineligibility for the Office of the President of the United States of America.

It is really is that simple. Christ did warn the deceivers would be coming in His Holy Name.

144 posted on 04/07/2016 11:55:06 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

Trump won the southern primaries primarily because the South is more PO’d with Washington and the Liberals than the rest of the country is.

There were 4 to 6 candidates in those primaries. In a Trump vs Cruz primary, the results very well may have been different.

Either man will be better than Hillary or Bernie.


145 posted on 04/07/2016 11:55:38 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Also of note in 2010, Trump was negotiating for online gambling rights and trying to leverage his name for branding it. Funny how nobody mentions gambling and it place in the Bible.


146 posted on 04/08/2016 12:04:49 AM PDT by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: imardmd1

In other words, you overlook Lyin’ Ted’s lying, cheating, and stealing all the while proclaiming his saintly deeds. Got it.


147 posted on 04/08/2016 12:10:26 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: BwanaNdege

“There were 4 to 6 candidates in those primaries. In a Trump vs Cruz primary, the results very well may have been different.”


again.
speculation.
as it stands... Cruz lost amongst evangelicals across the south.
fact

also a fact... my mentally ill next door neighbor would be better than the Bern or Her Thighnness... even if my neighbor was off their meds.


148 posted on 04/08/2016 12:12:19 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (When you see a drowning liberal, throw them the anchor...)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
I was wrong...took a little more research. He sold out of the Trump company that owned the property before the Scores opened.

Sold out? Bankruptcies (3x) dropped him down to around 27% owner (still majority) in 2010 when the negotiations started with the flesh factories. Sometime in 2010 he dropped to 10% owner which he kept until at least 2014. You can try to make it a case of when they opened, but when they negotiated the deal is what you don't want to be known.

So no I don't see that.

Also remember in 2010 he was trying his best to get into online gambling and even had his own brand (well him and others, but it was Trump name they were going to use). So Trump was venturing into what he hoped was a big money maker (can't afford to travel, just lose your shirt online).

149 posted on 04/08/2016 12:31:14 AM PDT by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
Knock it off, or Cruz will call out iCarly to defend his honor!

And there will still be zero evidence Cruz did anything other than breath and have people make up crap on about him online.

150 posted on 04/08/2016 12:33:42 AM PDT by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: Iscool

“No thanks Ted...It may be legal Constitutionally but I’ll never vote for someone who panders for the terrorist muzlim vote...”

Just for the record, electing a Muslim as President of the United States would be unconstitutional due to Islam being a form of government in addition to being a form of religion that is formally dedicated to the destruction of the “Republican Form of Government” mandated by the Constitution; see:

Bernard Lewis summarizes:
The penalty for apostasy in Islamic law is death. Islam is conceived as a polity, not just as a religious community. It follows therefore that apostasy is treason. It is a withdrawal, a denial of allegiance as well as of religious belief and loyalty. Any sustained and principled opposition to the existing regime or order almost inevitably involves such a withdrawal.

Lewis, Bernard (1998-01-21). “Islamic Revolution”. The New York Review of Books. In:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Islam#Human_rights_conventions

See also:

Article. II. Section. 1. . . . Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Article. IV. Section. 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.


151 posted on 04/08/2016 12:35:38 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: asyouwish

IBTZ


152 posted on 04/08/2016 12:46:19 AM PDT by indcons (Lurker mode mostly)
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To: Iscool

xactly iscool.

imho, this is a primary example of the differences in mindset between supporters of cruz and trump.

despite their encroachments (and some unfortunate entrenchments), socialism, communism, islamism - dominionism, are wholly incompatible with our nation’s experiment with liberty.

while we are an overwhelming judeo/christian people, we were first and foremost to be an enlightened citizen populace whom embraced our spirituality or faith (catholic, protestant, or otherwise) at the personal and local level.

if ‘we the people’ lose/have lost grip with the core responsibility of enlightenment, then that needs to be addressed primarily at the personal and local level; from the bottom up.

any top down theocratic and/or economic desires/mechanisms are to the left of that core ideal, and as is the case with such leftist collectivist dogma, further subjugation as opposed to citizenship and are thus incompatible with our founders’ constitutional diktat for individual liberty.

trump will be focused on the executive position as he’s been raised to be; a chief officer of our business affairs, the presidents rightful role.(that being (1) ensuring justice, personal freedom, and a free society where individuals are protected from domestic lawbreakers and criminals, and; (2) protecting the people of the united states from foreign aggressors.)

cruz will be focused on the executive position as he’s been raised to be; a dominionist.

https://youtu.be/kNa5w9js48s

https://youtu.be/vt-vG_TdOT4


153 posted on 04/08/2016 12:47:40 AM PDT by vikingrinn
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To: Just mythoughts
Well, you've got whatever answer you want to fabricate.

A year ago, I had the same question re birth effect. But whatever I have continued to uncover has shown that Ted Cruz, raised in a repentant, truly American Christian moral home, and making choice after choice to become an American faithful to our heritage, and working it out through diligent reliable service to his community has well-earned the right to be selected for this office.

Compare that to the questionable birth, education, and Communistic Islamist foundation together with the early ineffective political dabbling of our current President, who has sold our Constitution and our country down the road, and I believe my choice leaves yours in the dust, logically and historically.

I think that is as simple as one needs to go to confute your Esau analogy. Esau saw his inheritance so worthless as to trade it away for a dish of beans. Cruz and his family have regarded American citizenship far above pearls and rubies, and their heavenly citizenship even greater, and have fought for the right to exercise it.

What have you done to justify your citizenship? Have you deserved it? Just asking . . .

154 posted on 04/08/2016 1:48:55 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: WhiskeyX

I don’t have to prove my stand. The CT article does that. Tell me you have read it through and can demonstrate it to be wrong. Prove your accusations, hey? Otherwise, don’t waste the bandwidth.


155 posted on 04/08/2016 2:03:24 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
Well, you've got whatever answer you want to fabricate.

I would expect no less a comment from you.

A year ago, I had the same question re birth effect. But whatever I have continued to uncover has shown that Ted Cruz, raised in a repentant, truly American Christian moral home, and making choice after choice to become an American faithful to our heritage, and working it out through diligent reliable service to his community has well-earned the right to be selected for this office.

Ted is so repentant he is trying to deceive a nation that he is eligible to hold the office of president.

Compare that to the questionable birth, education, and Communistic Islamist foundation together with the early ineffective political dabbling of our current President, who has sold our Constitution and our country down the road, and I believe my choice leaves yours in the dust, logically and historically.

Ted took an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution NOT feather his own personal nest, coming in the face of Jesus. And make a mockery of that oath he took, I am guessing upon a Bible, no less.

I think that is as simple as one needs to go to confute your Esau analogy. Esau saw his inheritance so worthless as to trade it away for a dish of beans. Cruz and his family have regarded American citizenship far above pearls and rubies, and their heavenly citizenship even greater, and have fought for the right to exercise it.

The Esau analogy was to those calling themselves Christian who are 'natural born' US citizens, willing to sell out their birthright to a usurper. And what to expect from God. Cruz is not selling his birthright as he does not have a 'natural born' US citizenship birthright to sell... HE wants yours if you are a natural born US citizen...

What have you done to justify your citizenship? Have you deserved it? Just asking . . .

Presently I am attempted to defend and protect the US Constitution when those that take an oath to protect and defend, subvert the Constitution to feather their own nests.

156 posted on 04/08/2016 2:13:09 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Flick Lives
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lot of truth in that.

157 posted on 04/08/2016 2:19:19 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A four page article that disproved NOTHING. Cruz is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Before he and Heidi joined a Baptist church in Texas to appear normal, where was their church membership?

Hmmmmmmmmm.....mandatory church attendance sounds like a Dominionist to me.

http://nationalreport.net/ted-cruz-adds-mandatory-church-platform-inspiring-words-sylvia-allen/

Here’s a video of Pastor Mike Gonzalez, listed as Ted Cruz’s Campaign Chair stating ‘Separation of church and state is a myth’. Sounds like Dominionism to me. Oh and while you’re at it, you might want to see what you can find out about Columbia World Outreach in SC. I can’t find anything about them but bare boned sketchy info.

https://youtu.be/lpc0IHw26PU


158 posted on 04/08/2016 2:21:24 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Gasshog

.....the self-proclaimed devout Christian - Ted Cruz - can’t win the magic delegate number, so he connives and colludes to empower the Establishment....he/s peeing in everyone else’s punch bowl....

His half-baked theology is an anti-christ compound of false prophecy and a simulated Christianization of jihad. Dominionism also serves to herd the gullible into globalism. It is all as synthetic as “Ted” is himself.

Cruz campaigns as an anointed messiah IN A SICK CULT THAT THINKS THEY NEED TO BE IN POWER BEFORE CHRIST CAN COME BACK......the “seven mountain” dominionist theories are kookier than the mass suicide Jonestown cult in Guyana.

Cruz tried like heck, but he didn’t fool evangelicals. They dismissed Cruz/s phony Christianity and put their support squarely behind Trump.

Cruz/s extreme Dominionist beliefs call for religion in every aspect of government. Coincidentally (cough), many of Cruz/s political positions.....like economic libertarianism and TPP....also fit into the far-out Dominionist teachings Cruz learned form his father/s preaching.

The elder Cruz preaches that Christians are divided into Kings and Priests,.....the kings (politicians) go out and conquer the financial world and bring the money back to the priests (pastors in contemporary terms).

Ted and Heidi Cruz/s economic libertarianism also dovetails nicely w/ globalist Goldman/Sachs-—who financed Ted into office. G/S is Heidi’s $700,000 a year employer. So it looks like the Cruz/s have a head start in getting money back to the pastors.

Cruz should tell voters:

<><> what role does he plan for his preacher father in the US govt,

<><> what govt job does he plan to give his G/S globalist lawyer wife?

In the infamous Goldman Sachs NAU report. Heidi Cruz’ comment is under Additional and Dissenting Opinions on pages 33 and 34 of the paper. It is one of the corroborating opinions (not dissenting).

[quoting Heidi Cruz ...] I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic prosperity and a world safe from terrorism and other security threats are no doubt inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable role in both regards, we must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us—truly the measure of our success. As such, investment funds and financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants. — Heidi S. Cruz


159 posted on 04/08/2016 2:22:31 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: LowOiL

Just because people recognize a shyster doesn’t mean there is an anti-Christian movement here.


160 posted on 04/08/2016 2:30:19 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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