Benny Hinn - True or False

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According to 1 Cor. 12 the Holy Spirit gives the gift of healing to specific people as He does the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, working of miracles, prophecy, discernment of spirits, tongues and interpretation of tongues. "The manisfistation of the Spirit is given to each one for the prophet of all." The Spirit works all these things through them, but through specifically chosen ones - not everyone has these gifts or should I say is chosen to be a vessel through which He manifests Himself.
We need to view this with Mark 16 in mind. Jesus said that the signs that would follow "those who believe" are that...they will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." This does not limit it to specially chosen people. It is open to all who have the faith to believe. When you look at both Scriptures and see that both are in harmony with each other, then you see that any believer can lay hands on a sick person and see them recover. Then you look at the 1 Corinthians 12 Scripture with what James says about call for the elders of the church to lay hands on sick people, then you will see that those references are also in harmony with each other, and it suggests that the elders of the church would be more likely to have the gifts of healing as part of the church's ministry.
 
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It is interesting to note that the principal Scriptural references about the false prophets and messiahs arising to deceive many in the last days, refers to the very last days, and for the pretrib rapture believers, Christian believers won't be around to see these false signs and wonders. Now isn't that interesting?

Also, the supernatural signs and wonders were to accompany the instructions for fulfilling the great commission. So, if the signs and wonders were just for the 1st Century Church, does that mean that the great commission was just for that time as well? This is because fulfilling the great commission is preaching the gospel with signs and wonders. That's what Jesus said anyway. He gives the great commission and connected with that He says, "These signs will accompany those who believe..." If He meant that the signs were temporary, He would have said, "Go out into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, and these signs will accompany those who believe just until the end of the century and then you will have the canon of the New Testament to accredit you after that." Some people have a version of the Bible that says just that.
 
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Proverbs 11:13
He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets, But he who is trustworthy conceals a matter.
Matt 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matt 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
 
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Matt 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matt 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
These are total unbelievers, false prophets, who are depending solely on their works to get acceptance from God. It does not apply to anyone who preaches the gospel and gets thousands of souls saved for Christ. Make sure you use the Scripture in its right context.
 
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Furthermore: Is Benny Hinn ministering in the Holy Spirit or through another spirit that's not of God?
Test the fruit and you will find it wanting:

Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Well there the fruits are and as well what the word says about it, willful sinning is what tells us apart from the world!
 
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Test the fruit and you will find it wanting:

Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Well there the fruits are and as well what the word says about it, willful sinning is what tells us apart from the world!
Well, if you are saying, and I think you are, that Benny is operating from a wrong spirit that is not of God, then you must be saying that the wrong spirit is causing him to win souls for Christ in their thousands, strengthen believers' faith in Christ, spend long periods in praise and worship to God, promote repentance, and increase believer's love for God and His word.

If that is so, I could believe that the wrong spirit that is causing Benny to achieve these things, not withstanding Benny's errors, shortcomings and faults (which we all have, by the way) then that spirit must have been converted to Christ and is rebelling against its master Satan by undermining the kingdom of darkness by using Benny to rescue souls out of it.

So who is right? You, who is saying that a wrong spirit is enabling the man to do damage to the kingdom of darkness, by promoting the Lordship of Christ through getting the people to spend long periods of time praising God for His goodness and mercy, which they do in Benny's meetings, and by presenting the gospel in such a way that thousands are receiving Christ all over the world; or the thousands of good believers and church leaders who genuinely believe that the man is ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit?
 
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He may be a little over the top with that doctrine, but he is not a false teacher as described in the New Testament.

Oscarr,

Benny Hinn is clearly a false teacher as he teaches a doctrine of the "Trinity" that is not from Scripture, that there are 9 persons in the Godhead. What is driving you to accept that he is "a little over the top with that doctrine, but he is not a false teacher" (your language) when it clearly is not from Scripture?

Acts 20:28-30 (NIV) contradicts this view:

28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. 29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.

Benny doesn't do that. He seeks to build up people's faith in Christ. That is not the New Testament description of a false teacher.

So waving his hand for healing, with people falling over, is a biblical manifestation??? He does this with the singing of "Let the people fall". He also supports people crawling around the floor under the supposed influence of the Holy Spirit and barking like dogs. Do you call that the content of biblical manifestations???

How about when he said that any who criticise his ministry are "accursed". His words were: “I place a curse on every man and every woman that will stretch his hand against this anointing. I curse that man who dares to speak a word against this ministry”. I urge you to listen to the videos accompanying this Benny Hinn quote. And you say he is not a false teacher??

I have spent my life building up people's faith. That is not an excuse to put up with false doctrine preached, especially in the church.

This is your and my responsibility with Benny Hinn's teachings:

Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true (Acts 17:11 NIV).
If it was good enough for those who heard Paul's preaching to "examine the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true", then it is absolutely essential for you and me to examine the Scriptures every day to see if what Benny Hinn said was true - when compared with Scripture.

We do the same with Billy Graham, Kenneth Copeland, Chuck Swindoll, Kenneth Hagin, John Ankerberg, John Calvin, Marcion, Joyce Meyer, Brian Houston, or our local pastors.

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Oscarr,

Benny Hinn is clearly a false teacher as he teaches a doctrine of the "Trinity" that is not from Scripture, that there are 9 persons in the Godhead. What is driving you to accept that he is "a little over the top with that doctrine, but he is not a false teacher" (your language) when it clearly is not from Scripture?
Read the four Gospels in the light of the Old Testament Scriptures, because that is all they had when Jesus was ministering. List the things that Jesus did that were not taught in those Scriptures. Does that make Jesus a false teacher? If the things that Jesus did were not expressly stated in the OT Scriptures then you have to say that He was a false teacher by your estimation.

Acts 20:28-30 (NIV) contradicts this view:

28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. 29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.​
Oh PLease!! So you are saying that Benny Hinn is a savage wolf who is not sparing the flock? Is he drawing disciples away from Christ after him? Or is he, during the worship times in his services giving glory to God and getting people to turn their eyes upon Christ and worship Him as king of kings and Lord of Lords? Does a savage wolf cause thousands of people to accept Christ as Saviour? If Benny Hinn does those things, then you are misapplying the Scripture. Paul is talking about what was going to happen in his time, and what actually took place were the Arian and Gnostic heresies. Those heresies were the ones that infiltrated Christian assemblies and drew disciples away from Christ.

So waving his hand for healing, with people falling over, is a biblical manifestation??? He does this with the singing of "Let the people fall". He also supports people crawling around the floor under the supposed influence of the Holy Spirit and barking like dogs. Do you call that the content of biblical manifestations???
But all these things happened in the Great Awakening, the Hebrides, and the Welsh Revivals! So you are saying that Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney, Duncan Campbell, and Evan Roberts were false teachers? They had all those happen during their ministries. John Wesley, George Fox, George Whitefield, General Booth, and D.L. Moody had all these happen in their meetings too! So they were false teachers as well!

How about when he said that any who criticise his ministry are "accursed". His words were: “I place a curse on every man and every woman that will stretch his hand against this anointing. I curse that man who dares to speak a word against this ministry”. I urge you to listen to the videos accompanying this Benny Hinn quote. And you say he is not a false teacher??
I'd say that he was talking about those who had a demon criticising spirit instead of the Holy Spirit inspiring their comments about his ministry. Anyone who is controlled by a demonic criticising spirit is under a curse that needs to be broken off them.
I can also understand that in the face of savage criticising wolves in sheep's clothing setting themselves as judges of good men's ministries the man could revert to the flesh, as we all would under that sort of stress. After all, the guy is human like all the rest of us. And, all the other men of God I mentioned had to put up with the same wolves in sheep's clothing attacking their ministries in their time. Nothing new here. If that is all you've got, then you aren't a very good critic. Perhaps you need more training in criticism of ministries.

I have spent my life building up people's faith. That is not an excuse to put up with false doctrine preached, especially in the church.
I certainly have no reason to doubt that. I can only deal with the issues you are raising, and I have no comment about your own personal goals and intentions for the general body of Christ, because I don't know you, nor have I met you in person, therefore I have no basis of judgment of you as a person. But in your role of critic, that is quite another matter.

This is your and my responsibility with Benny Hinn's teachings:

Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true (Acts 17:11 NIV).​

Quite so, but they investigated the matters deeply and comprehensively. Because they had just the Jewish Scriptures, they would find no precedent in them for what Paul was doing and saying, so they had to determine whether Paul was acting in harmony with the Scriptures, and they found that he was. This was after very careful investigation, searching the Scriptures thorough to see if the Scriptures exposed any fault with the gospel he was preaching, and they would have interviewed witnesses, heard his preaching and attended his meetings.

If you have done the same concerning Benny Hinn then you could compare yourself with the Bereans. If not, then that passage about the Bereans does not apply to where you obtained your information.
If it was good enough for those who heard Paul's preaching to "examine the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true", then it is absolutely essential for you and me to examine the Scriptures every day to see if what Benny Hinn said was true - when compared with Scripture.
But the Jews, who knew the Scriptures back to front and upside down called Paul a charlatan and a fake, and did all they could to undermine his ministry, because what Paul did was not expressly stated in their Scriptures. They killed Jesus for exactly the same reason they couldn't believe He was the Messiah, because they could equate the things He was doing with what they saw in the Scriptures about who the Messiah was supposed to be and what He was supposed to do. Who ever heard of their Messiah being born in a stable in a small provincial town to a 15 year old girl who was not married when she first became pregnant? That wasn't stated in their Scriptures. Who ever heard of their Messiah, who was supposed to come and establish the sovereign state of Israel again, being taken and crucified by the Romans? If you were a Jewish rabbi seeking to build up the faith of your Jewish brethren and you saw Jesus doing a whole lot of stuff that you couldn't see in the Scriptures you had, wouldn't you have called Him a false prophet and teacher? Come on. Be honest.

It took Jesus through revelation for the two disciples at Emmaus to learn how Jesus was spoken of all throughout the Jewish Scriptures. They nor the Pharisees could have ever seen it otherwise. What we may see in hindsight, it would have been impossible for them to see.

We do the same with Billy Graham, Kenneth Copeland, Chuck Swindoll, Kenneth Hagin, John Ankerberg, John Calvin, Marcion, Joyce Meyer, Brian Houston, or our local pastors.
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So, which of those are true or false teachers?
 
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If a leader in the body of Christ falls into sin aka Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart or a thousand others, God will deal with them and did in both of these cases. He is far more forgiving, willing and able to restore than many who profess to love like Christ did.

Think about this, use Swaggart for example, while Jimmy was living two lives were the people saved under his ministry less saved than anyone else? No it is the word of God going forth from imperfect vessels that accomplishes what is intended to accomplish.

I’ll ruffle a few more feathers here. I believe it is possible for an unsaved man to preach the Word that can result in the salvation of a soul. It is God’s word that will not return void.

I am not endorsing living in sin here, my point is God is in the forgiving and restoration business and many in the church are in the condemnation business.
 
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When the evangelist walked up to me at the alter and told what my problem was, I was not even praying about it or thinking of it at that time. It was a gift of healing from a loving and merciful God.
That is very powerful and very telling that the Lord is making it clear that it is genuine.

And let's be frank. All of this is a little like UFO sightings. That is, it is for those to which it happened. We know what happened, but to anyone we describe it to, it is second hand. And the greatest "second hand" miracle of them all is the one discussed in the parable of Lazarus and the rich man: Jesus death and resurrection.
 
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I think they were going after Ernest Angley in that particular video...
Old Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) is my favorite group. New Genesis (without him) is my second favorite. I've got a lot of documentaries created about the group. There is an interview with Collins on this song. It was a direct attack against, um, "some" TV evangelists and the stories that followed them, ultimately.

I really like the song because it actually can teach those that may be sitting at home throwing money at their favorite TV evangelist. Not that they are all bad, but it is important to judge a tree by it's fruit.

One of my friends supported Jim and Tammy ministries until he got conflicting letters from two of their ministries. Their "giving" ministry was seeing a serious shortfall and desperate for funds, yet their fund raising for their "Christian Disneyland" was above all goals and they were very excited. He looked at the two letters and asked himself, "what's wrong with this picture?" He never gave them another dime.
 
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I think it is important to remember that with topics like this, there will be a lot of reactions based on envy of the man's success. This is important because of what is written of envy motivation in James Chapter 3, that wisdom that comes from this and also bitter motivation is of the devil ... even if you use scripture, note that the devil is not allergic to scripture in the temptations of Christ in the wilderness. If Peter can be blessed for saying Jesus is the Christ, the son of the Living God, and in the next moment "Satan" because he wants things that humans want but not what God wants, then it can happen to any of us ... self examination is not a bad thing.
 
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Yes, I do believe in the laying on of hands on prayer to the Holy Spirit for healing is available for everyone, just as our own personal prayer is heard and answered sometimes. But I also know spiritual gifts are given selectively. We all have one or more but not all . Just like in Ephesians 4:11says some are given gifts of evangelism, teaching, prophecy, and being a Pastor. You can't just lay hands on anyone to do these things unless it is truly the will of God. I've seen my daughter healed through my own prayer, but it a guy falls out of a second floor window and dies, I can't go down and bring him back to life like Paul did. He was gifted.
Maybe Gunn experiences some real miraculous healings in the beginning of his ministry here and there but then it went to his head and so he got dramatic and thought as long as He is giving credit to the Lord, worshipping, praying faithfully, he wasn't doing anything wrong. Then if course if none are healed, they blame him, crowds decrease along with donations. So maybe he started to eliminate totally disabled and only asked temporary or partially disabled or diseased to come forward. I don't know. Many people, even lawyers, start careers with honest intentions but become corrupt over time. Could be the Holy Spirit completely withdrew His healings from this ministry early on, because of his deception. ??
Finally his net worth of $40 million gives us a clue where his motivation lies.
 
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