OzSpen
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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.
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, which of those are true or false teachers?
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
That's a defense of your not wanting to admit the falsehood that Benny Hinn teaches.
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