The Toronto Blessing, and Benny Hinn, etc

[RGR]

Hey, if a donkey was good enough for Jesus, why not for Benny?

[billie]

Hey, if a donkey was good enough for Jesus, why not for Benny?

[Floatingaxe]

I took a look at Benny Hinn's Faith Statement on his website. There is absolutely nothing there that is wrong. All is scriptural and right.

[LadyRaven]

It is unfair to call Hinn a false prophet. That conclusion is a dangerous accusation.

IF he's made prophesies that have not come to pass, then that would be pretty easy to prove and it wouldn't be a dangerous accusation

the term false prophet is also often used to describe someone who teaches false doctrine and I believe he does.

[followerofjesus]

Some people do not have a level of discernment for these types of situations. They cannot see anything bad w/ someone who claims to be a preacher. This does not make them a bad person. This makes them more easily led wether its a good or bad path. This is why its very dangerous to speak in the name of God in order to deceive & rob people of their innocence. The wolf in sheeps' clothing. Ask him to give everything away (all possesions) & lay down his life.

He will deserve praise If & when he does this until then he has no crediblility.

[st. Worm]

It is unfair to call Hinn a false prophet. That conclusion is a dangerous accusation.

Why is that unfair? He has made several false prophecies. If we lived under the OT laws he would rightly be stoned to death.

sw

[st. Worm]

I don't know if it's too Christian to heap humiliation on anyone.

In this case, I'd say it is. Better we make fun of them lest unbelievers think the greed, excess and bad doctrine of TBN is what Christianity is all about.

sw

I thought we were to speak th truth in love.

At least I am speaking the truth. And I am more concerned about the victims of TBN than the false ministers on there who plunder them.

sw

I guess some is better than none, huh?

Jesus and his Apostles (especially Peter and Paul) used some very rough language to describe the false teachers of their time. If you want to be the Nice Police that's fine, but there is ample scriptural precedent for dealing harshly with wolves in sheep's clothing.

sw

The question is who gave you divine authority to be the "judge?" Jesus and the Apostles were always correct in their identification of false prophets. Where does your inerancy in judgment come from? Let us look at Hinn. Jesus said a house divided against itsself will not stand. You claim Hinn is a fale prophet. Why would a false prophet preach the true message of salvation to the world? Why would a false prophet spends millions of dollars to spread the gospel, the message of salvation to Africa? Africa & India crusades are huge financial liabilites to Hinn. If he were in it for the money, he would not be doing the world wide crusades. They are a huge financial drain on the ministry. He is drawing crowds and recording professions of faith only second to Reinhardt Bonkee at the present moment. Satan is doing a real smart thing if he is sending Hinn to preach the true gospel and lead millions to salvation. The real problem is most christians can not see past the tip of their nose.

So many christians have the attitude a preacher in one of Rev. Kenneth Haggins stories had. Haggin said he was discussing a move of God with another minister. Haggin said the minister said "that is not of the Lord." Haggin said I asked "how do you know?" The minister said "because if it were of the Lord, He would have started it in my church." It is unfortunate, but many Christians can not stand to see success in another denomination. If it is not happening in their little group, they wish it failure. They can not stand to see someone outside their group show greater success than they are having.

I wish Christians would spend as much energy fighting Satan as they spend fighting each other.

Have you ever noticed that as a whole, highly successful ministers do not fight each other. Their opposition comes from significantly smaller ministers who can not stand the fact that their ministry is not as large as the "TV Preacher."

I don't think that Jesus would measure success by the amount of expensive cars or the size of their beachfront homes. I would think a successful Christian would be a servant to others driven by humility. Doesn't sound like Benny Hin to me.

Hinn Measures success in Souls won to Jesus. Compared to local pastors, I am quite sure Hinn's salary is a much smaller percentage of ministry gross income than the local pastors salary is of Church income.

Souls won to Jesus?? Have you ever watched his nonsense? I have never heard him preach the Law and Gospel once. His entire show is just phony healing and waving his arms around blowing his assistants around the stage with the "wind of the Holy Spirit" that he claims flows from his arms. Anyone who believes this stuff should be institutionalized. Your statement excusing is greed and excess is amazing.

sw

[LadyRaven]

Hinn Measures success in Souls won to Jesus. Compared to local pastors, I am quite sure Hinn's salary is a much smaller percentage of ministry gross income than the local pastors salary is of Church income.

Souls won to Jesus?? Have you ever watched his nonsense? I have never heard him preach the Law and Gospel once. His entire show is just phony healing and waving his arms around blowing his assistants around the stage with the "wind of the Holy Spirit" that he claims flows from his arms. Anyone who believes this stuff should be institutionalized. Your statement excusing is greed and excess is amazing.

sw

If a heretical teacher leads people to a false Jesus, are they really saved?

People need to think of the implications of doctrine peddled by people like Hinn before telling us all we're supposed to embrace them as brothers and sisters and not to "judge" them. They are devouring the flock, not leading them.

I'm sure Mr Hinn is very sincere, but he's sincerely WRONG, and he's leading people down the primrose path to Hell, does this not concern people?

[nebula]

We're on another witch hunt

Looking for evil

Wherever we can find it

Off on a tangent

Hope the Lord don't mind it

Another witch hunt

Taking a break from all our Gospel labor

On a crudade but we forgot our saber

Witch hunt

[apothanein kerdos]

I don't see any reason tip-toeing around this. Benny Hinn is a heretic based solely off what he preaches (not even looking to the lifestyle of luxury that he gains off people's ignorance). Faith is placed in him and not in Jesus and he makes Christ out to be nothing more than a genie with unlimited wishes. This is heresy at its worst because it places man on equal footing or above God.

His philosophy is EXACTLY like all other philosophies in this world; at its root it is centered on Man. THe goal is not to seek God's Will, not to find a way to please God in your ailment, not to bring glory to God with your physical weakness. The goal of Hinn is to use God to make yourself better....this is outright heresy.

It's not a witch hunt, it's not tossing any baby out, it's calling it for what it is.