Is Benny hinn a false prophet ?

[CounselorForChrist]

Its to common today that christianity is turning away from what makes it...well christianity. Me and a friend just talked about this. Alot of new christians seem to be more cult like and less concerned about what the bible says or that it is indeed the Word of God. Its becoming a more and more scary world I think.

 

[JoeyArnold]

Oh, I love his focus on healing - everyone in the service and those watching needs healing body and/or soul.

Benny Hinn does say many times that the greatest healing is salvation.

 

[pauluk3]

Its to common today that christianity is turning away from what makes it...well christianity. Me and a friend just talked about this. Alot of new christians seem to be more cult like and less concerned about what the bible says or that it is indeed the Word of God. Its becoming a more and more scary world I think.

truley we are in the last days...i see it now more that eve as the devil trys to corrupt the word of God

 

[rockytopva]

Maybe a false profit....

 

[JoeyArnold]

truly we are in the last days.

Sometimes we limit the Holy Spirit too much.

 

[Blessedj01]

I disagree. Benny Hinn can have a house the size of the world for all I care. That is not what's wrong with him.

The Pharisees used the same argument against the woman who poured the expensive perfume on Jesus.

The problem is with the things he says, what he teaches. There may be other problems but we can't judge that on wealth alone.

 

[JoeyArnold]

I disagree. Benny Hinn... the Pharisees.... the problem is with the things Benny teaches.

Benny Hinn teaches that God cares about us.

 

[Blessedj01]

May be true, but he's made a lot of statements which aren't analogous with being close to Christ. You don't make predictions that don't come true after you've claimed you were inspired by God to make them and you don't focus your entire outward image to the body, upon making people fall over during service.

Look. I'm no Benny Hinn expert but I can still smell a fake.

 

[JoeyArnold]

I'm no Benny Hinn expert but I can still smell a fake.

People often misquote & misinterpret Benny Hinn.

 

[Blessedj01]

I'm willing to accept that and I may be wrong 'cos I haven't researched it properly. So I'll just leave the debate.

But my point still stands that having a big house doesn't mean anything.

 

[Publius]

People often misquote & misinterpret Benny Hinn.

What about the ones who quote and interpret him accurately and provide citations for his many heretical teachings?

 

[JoeyArnold]

But my point still stands that having a big house doesn't mean anything.

Sometimes pastors or leaders are blessed with big houses or other things because people are generous & demanded it.

 

[JoeyArnold]

What about the ones who quote and interpret him accurately and provide citations for his many heretical teachings?

Nobody is perfect. Famous people are put under microscopes.

 

[Blessedj01]

...that's kinda what I mean though. Having a big house or having blessings doesn't mean anything at all. God is the richest person in the universe! Having riches doesn't mean you aren't holy in and of itself, so that's the wrong angle for people to take.

 

[JoeyArnold]

What about the ones who quote and interpret him accurately and provide citations for his many heretical teachings?

I'm not sure if Benny Hinn has repented from some of the things he use to say over twenty years ago. I have heard people claiming that Benny made predictions about when Christ might return. I've never heard Benny say it personally but if it's true then I hope Benny is man enough to own up to his mistakes & to ask the world to forgive him.

 

[Publius]

Nobody is perfect. Famous people are put under microscopes.

Nobody is asking or expecting him to be perfect. But the Bible does say that our doctrine should be sound and if someone comes to us who does not have sound doctrine, we should not have anything to do with him.

Hinn has been exposed countless times as a heretic and I don't believe we can consider him a brother in Christ, but must consider him a wolf among the sheep.

Anyone who continues to follow or defend him needs to read 2 John.

There are two kinds of heretics described in the Bible: the functional heretic (that is, one who follows heresy out of ignorance) and the formal heretic (that is, one who knows sound doctrine but rejects it).

While I would like to believe that Hinn's followers are in the former camp (I know that's where I was when I was caught in the WoF trap and hung on Hinn's every word), but when we continue to show them what Hinn teaches and compare it with scripture and they continue to follow him, it becomes clear that they simply don't care about sound doctrine or what the Bible says.

Hinn, clearly, is in the latter camp. He's been corrected many, many times and even repented briefly of his "each member of the Trinity is a trinty" teaching, but then went right back to teaching it.

I think you need to decide which camp you're going to be in: do you follow Hinn because you don't know any better? Or do you know what doctrines the Bible requires of us and just don't care?

 

[Blessedj01]

^^what he said

 

[JoeyArnold]

Benny Hinn's "each member of the Trinity is a trinity" teachings, etc....

I've heard Benny talked about this. But if he still preaches that God is of nine parts rather than three, will that send people to Hell?

 

[pauluk3]

I've heard Benny talked about this. But if he still preaches that God is of nine parts rather than three, will that send people to Hell?

Faith and Theology: Theology fail: Benny Hinn on the Trinity

 

[Leonfrost]

I've heard Benny talked about this. But if he still preaches that God is of nine parts rather than three, will that send people to Hell?

Of course it won't! Romans 8:38 "And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow--not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love."

I'm sure a few broken theologies from one man don't have the power to damn his followers if none of these can do that either.