I've only watched snippets of his antics and preaching over the years, but what I saw gives me good grounds to think the man is a money-grubbing charlatan whose doctrine is often ridiculous and dangerous. I doubt very much that the man is saved.
God's love does not tolerate our sin. His love is holy, and truthful, and right. If we love Benny Hinn with this sort of love, we ought to condemn and reject him (a little leaven leavens the whole lump) as the false teacher and avaricious huckster that he is and urge him to repent and be truly born-again.
I've never listened long enough to him to find out. But if he does, such teaching is confused and fouled by the torrent of nonsense that often spews from his mouth.
It is the devil's common practice to mix truth with falsehood. Benny Hinn, from what I've seen, does just the same. A clever false teacher does not teach unbridled falsehood but like the devil speaks some truth, enough to lull the ignorant and unwary into trusting him, so that he might more easily feed them his lies. It does not follow, then, that if Benny teaches some truth, he is not, therefore, a false teacher.
Not so. The shameful behaviour that goes on at Benny's meetings has nothing whatever to do with God. Jesus never carried on in such a manner. Neither did any of the apostles. And no where in the entire New Testament do any of the writers of it urge us to such frenzied, chaotic, and fleshly conduct. Instead, we read:
1 Corinthians 14:33
33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
1 Corinthians 14:40
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
James 3:17-18
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Only to a point. Benny Hinn isn't merely different or diverse, he is a liar and a false teacher who brings the name of Christ into disrepute, who blasphemes the Holy Spirit by attributing to him foolish and fleshly experiences in which he has no part whatever, and who leads silly and ignorant people into a horribly distorted and shameful system of religious doctrine.
All true believers are in a homogenizing process. God's aim with all of His children is that they wouldn't become increasingly distinct from one another but become more and more like Christ. (
Ro. 8:29) As believers grow more and more mature, then, there should be an increasing similarity in their thinking and behaviour. I don't see this with Benny. If anything, he is more divergent, more outrageous in his conduct, than ever.
Um, no. Why don't you let Scripture speak for itself?
2 Peter 2:1-3
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
2 Peter 2:9-10
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
10 and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
2 Peter 2:13-19
13 and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,
14 having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.
15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
I can see a lot of Benny Hinn in what the apostle Peter has written above. He fits very well this description of false teachers.
"Unusual manifestations"? Utterly unbiblical ones, actually. Blasphemous ones. And likely demonic. You might want to check out the behaviour of practitioners of Kundalini yoga, who, in their pagan and occult practices "manifest" almost identically to those "slain in the Spirit" at Benny's awful events.
And where do you get this from in Scripture? I hope you're just playing Devil's Advocate here.
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