Controversies dog Benny Hinn's evangelistic show

Times of India ^ | January 24, 2005 | Bangalore

[lonevoice]

Only after the child, Bhavana, was photographed and prayed for by Hinn's security officials was the plane allowed to take off, the organizers maintained.

Gee...now Hinn's security personnel can perform miraculous healings too?

[Dataman]

This yayhoo is single-handedly converting more of God's children into fanatical athiests. And honestly I can't blame people for doubting and dismissing God after seeing this theo-charlatan in action.

You can't? Sure, Hinn is an arrogant fraud, but how does God get the blame for that? Does He get credit, then, for Billy Graham, Jonathan Edwards, Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton and Thomas Aquinas? Or does He only get blame?

[Blzbba]

"seeing this theo-charlatan in action. "


Ahh yes. 'Charlatan' was the word I was looking for to describe this phony - thanks!

[The SISU kid]

You can't? Sure, Hinn is an arrogant fraud, but how does God get the blame for that?

I can relate. I ended a debate with an atheist friend (or friendly adversary) 2 nights ago by calling him a hypocrite when he pronounced the tsunami as an "act of God"by asking him if how there could only be miracles of nature, but devastation by God?

Left him sitting there speechless.

[Blzbba]

"I liked his old BBC comedy sketch show, especially those chase sequences during the ending credits."


Yeah, where he's chasing either scantily-clad women or that little old bald man around! Classic!

And now I have that sax music theme playing in my head...

[MEGoody]

"And honestly I can't blame people for doubting and dismissing God after seeing this theo-charlatan in action."

Hinn will have to answer to God for all he has said and done in this lifetime, as we all will.

But using Hinn as an excuse for rejecting Jesus as Savior and Lord isn't going to cut it on judgement day, and more than Adam pointing the finger at Eve saved him. (I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that it would.)

[agrace]

"Hallelujah! Shall we have a huge round of applause for this glorious feat of the Lord? I told you, none of you will leave this place sick," pastor Hinn replied.

Right there the man makes a false claim.

[Conservatrix]

Errr.... Benny Hill is the weird dude on TV... he played the toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...

Benny Hinn is the weird dude on TV... he plays off the hopes and fears of the ignorant....

[Idisarthur]

(Don't hate the player - hate the game!)

[bigfootbob]

LOL

[stars & stripes forever]

I have a friend whose grandson was healed at a Benny Hinn event in DeMoines. (They were interviewed on stage) The grandson had a detached eye and mental condition that was the result of a car accident. Both ailments were instantly healed.

Then the Holy Spirit swooped down and healed the whole family. My friend had total healing in her vertebrate, and her other two grandsons were healed ofstuttering and a heart murmer.

[Blzbba]

"(Don't hate the player - hate the game!)"


Damn - Hypocrite point for me. You're right!

[MissAmericanPie]

ROFLOL

[george wythe]

This "healed" man (Raj) was a decoy planted by The Times of India to find out how Hinn's medical team separates the wheat from the chaff. Raj, actually in fine health, came to the meet pretending to have a pronounced limp, and was put in the "sick" enclosure.

If people want to be deceived, that's their prerogative. The government should keep its hands off these crusades.

During my college years, I visited many churches of different denominations, trying to find the one closer to original Christianity. My visits to the uber-charismatic churches remain memorable. Questionable stories of healing every time we met, no critical thinking, no verification process.

One day I read a satire about the these ubiquitous miraculous cures on a magazine, where the author claimed that his daughter was steamrolled flat, but he prayed to Jesus, and he watched his daughter come back to life in perfect health. The funny thing was that his article was not too far from the outlandish stories I had heard at church.

[bobwoodard]

What's your take on the people who've died after discontinuing medication and treatment after receiving healing from Benny? Do you agree with Benny's statement that if they died, they must have lost their faith?

[Oreo Kookey]

I call him a schister (sp?), among other equally as unflattering things.

[Oreo Kookey]

Too funny!

[Oreo Kookey]

shyster

Dang, I knew I was spelling it wrong. I should have read through the replies before posting. Egg on face.