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Benny Hinn - True or False

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What happens if one is pushed over and no one catches them? ouch

To those making claims like false prophecy or whatever, please document such from his books or his articles online, so they can be verified.

I do not have speakers.
 
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Here is an excellent question to ask those who believe in healings done by men.


Who believes That?

In my case the evangelist told me to my face God is healing you, taking no credit for himself.
 
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If you did and I missed it is your duty to point it out clearly! Not interested hyper spiritual word games.

There are no games on my behalf, I have given you the scripture it's your duty to look and check it out,
i cant give you the ability to understand it.
 
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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. Have a good look at the descriptions of false prophets and teachers there. You will see that they are unbelievers, wolves in sheep's clothing, and they turn people away from Christ to idolatrous and sinful living. 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. If you label anyone as false because they have differences in doctrine, then everyone is false except you and me, and you wouldn't be too sure about me!

Also, the main characteristic of a false teacher is that his teaching tears the body of Christ apart and seeks to destroy believers' faith in Christ. Putting some of his unusual manifestations and teachings aside, does Benny really do that, or does he seek to build up the body of Christ and strengthen people's faith in Christ?

Another question, what do his critics do to build up believers' faith in Christ while tearing down the ministries of prominent men of God just because those men operate in a different way than they think they should? When looking at posts on this forum, where are the faith-building posts of these critics, or are most of their posts consisting of tearing down the ministries of their brothers in Christ?
 
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Well said. I rest my case and defer to you.
 
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Read the whole Scripture in context. Nowhere does it say that a person who makes mistakes in the prophetic is a false prophet. Are you suggesting that Benny is a savage wolf in sheep's clothing who seeks to tear down the body of Christ and push people away from their faith in Christ? Are you saying that he is strongly promoting idolatry and sinful living? Are you saying that every believer in history who has experienced a physical appearance of Jesus is a false prophet? So Paul is a false prophet because Jesus appeared to him on the Damascus Road?

And if you are "teaching" that Benny is a false prophet according to the full description in the New Testament reference, and when others examine the reference and Benny's ministry fully, and see that there is no comparison between them, wouldn't they rightly say that you are a false teacher because you are misusing the Scripture to falsely accuse a man in a Christ-centred ministry?
 
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People often tend to favor fooling themselves, if in so doing they can earn status and wealth. At best there's an uncomfortable mix of deception and faith at work with Mr Hinn in my opinion. In any case, born again or not, we're called to love him.
Have you viewed a full meeting? Have you attended one of his meetings in person to see it from start to finish to see if people are coming to Christ? How can deception and faith be together. Didn't Jesus say that light and darkness could not abide in the same place? Either Benny is an anointed minister of the Gospel or he is a complete deceiver who is turning people away from Christ. There is no middle ground.

So if you have no first-hand information other than the comments of other critics of his ministry, how can you have an unbiased view of the man? You said "in my opinion" and that is correct. It is just your opinion, based on gossip and innuendo, if you have not fully and completely researched the man and his ministry for yourself.
 
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No I haven't. Jesus said there would be both false messiahs AND false prophets in the last days. Maybe the jury is out on the former, but Hinn is definitely one of the latter.

Your hostile personal remarks are not welcome.
Why i reacted the way I did was that I was shocked at how you took just one sentence of a passage and based your accusation of Benny on it, while the whole passage describing a false prophet or messiah does not describe him at all! I found it difficult to believe that you didn't know what a false prophet really is as defined by the New Testament. Benny is absolutely nothing like that, and every person I know of who has attended a full meeting or a series of his meetings in person would strongly refute your opinion and say that you are definitely misusing the Scripture to make your point. The very fact that there are genuine conversions to Christ, as acknowledged by good believers who have been eyewitnesses to the praise and worship, his preaching, and the great numbers of people who receive Christ, show that Benny could not be a false prophet or Messiah in any shape or form. So he is a little off beam with some of his doctrines. So what? Are we all perfect in our doctrinal beliefs? Benny is straight on the most important components of the Gospel, and it is in some of the obscure areas where he is speculative.

As far as attacking your personally. I am not. You know that is not my style. I can't believe that you don't know the Scriptures, and I am assuming that you are experienced and competent in Biblical hermeneutics, so I had to assume that your misquote was deliberately done to prove your point.

You have to be thick skinned to participate in these debates, and I know you are, and you have done the same to me at times. Anything I say is never personal, and it is a pity that some take it that way, but sometimes the cuts and thrusts of good debates can be a bit bloody, but that is part of the territory.

So I am not flaming or goading you in any way. My father used to get my brother and I shouting at him during our debates over religion and politics at home, and then he would say that we lost the argument because we raised our voices at him.

Good grief man, in the last few days in the debates over tongues, I have been accused of being of the devil and being a drunk! (not by you of course), and that my Presbyterian church has people falling down and doing all sorts of weird things, and my response is to draw my sword and come back swinging!

In a boxing match, who would be such a whimp to cry foul just because he takes a few punches to the face? I've seen boxers punch the stuffing out of each other, then hug each other at the end of the match!
 
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I wish I had the full sermon for you but I don't at this time
I'd be interested in how he would justify that statement. Hearing the full sermon may give a more complete picture of what he is saying.
 
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As Jesus said...what is that to you? You follow me!

The first question to be asked - Is he a born again Christian brother? If he is, then we have to love him as Christ loves us,

Huh? Love him only if he is a born again believer? God loves us all the same...impartially. We are called to love this way, too...while we were yet sinners...

Though it is not out of order to weild a sword...all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

 
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Are these "investigative groups" are guys who are ministry nobodies who have been frustrated with the lack of invitations to preach anywhere, so they have set up their own websites to publish their views and opinions, and are viewed by just a few followers who agree with them?

And who are these (unnamed) "old friends" who are saying these things? Are they prominent ministries in the body of Christ? Or are they friends of the "investigative" website owners who tend to rubbish every prominent ministry that is out there.

My mother used to sit in her lounge and say "Everyone in Blenheim (my home town) says such and such" when no one except her wacky friend said anything of the sort.

There is no point me naming the prominent sound ministries whose comments about Benny could be accurate, one way or the other, because, given your history of comments, you would run them down and say they are false as well and that birds of a feather flock together.

So we are stuck with generalised gossip and innuendo which is pretty unreliable information.
 
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Benny Hinn seeking out the not so sick for his "miracle healing" sessions:

False miracles:

Benny Hinn has a private jet and several houses.
A Google search of "Benny Hinn fraud" might yield enough articles to arouse suspicion.
Are the people from Dateline born again Christians or are they unbelievers whom the god of this world has blinded so they have no understanding of the true gospel of Christ? Have those people gone to a Benny Hinn meeting to give a true and honest evaluation, or have they gone just to find fault and write a sensational article for their readers so that more copies of their publication can be sold? If the Dateline people are not born again Christians then they are blind guides and I wouldn't give tuppence for their biased findings.
 
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With B. H. I defer to Paul and his words:

It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains. But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice (Phi 1:15-18)

So what does it matter and am I called a judge over B. H.? Christ is proclaimed and like my brother Paul I rejoice.
 
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By your own admission, you haven't gone to any of his meetings and haven't listened long enough to get the full picture of the man and his preaching, and I suspect you have never read his biography of his background and how he got into ministry. So, all this opinion of yours is based on a few selected snippets which show some of his wacky stuff, but leaves out his sound preaching of the gospel, the praise and worship times in his meetings, the multitudes of people coming to Christ, and the many testimonies of people's lives having been wonderfully changed through his ministry.

I am an academic with a Mdiv. If I wrote an essay on Benny Hinn's ministry based on just snippets from Youtube and did not do a thorough research on the man, his ministry and his doctrine, and also the fruit of his ministry in the lives of people affected by it, the professor would laugh my essay out of his office and give me 1% for trying!
 
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You've already loaded that gun haven't you. We have the witness of Christ to the truth here but you prefer the man.
 
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I do not know if he is a born again Christian or not, I do not know his heart.

Concerning the second question, my arms are too short to box with God.
But, I do think He is nuts.
Reading his biography could give you a clue. An unbeliever would not preach the gospel and bring so many people to Christ. Some of his practices and doctrines might be nutty to some, and some accused Jesus of being nutty because He did unexpected things during His ministry. And Festus told Paul that learning had made him mad! The Greeks thought the preaching of the cross and resurrection were nutty, and to the Jews it was an offence. So Benny is in good company. In the Great Awakening, Hebrides, and Welsh Revivals, many nutty things happened, but they were true revivals nevertheless. When I make comments to some, with my nutty sense of humour, my wife tells that that she wouldn't take me anywhere!
 
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You've already loaded that gun haven't you. We have the witness of Christ to the truth here but you prefer the man.
Yep, and have fired the silver bullets! Oh, so you are dropping the name of Christ into your argument to give authority to your opinions. It is difficult to refute that then because Jesus has told you the truth about the man, am I right? However, let me know what is the "truth" that you are talking about.
 
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Your so blinded you cant see it even as the scriptures stares you straight in the face.

You tought these great signs and miracles of that ministry which is exactly what Christ warns against regarding that which is false.
 
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