Toufik Benedictus Hinn aka Uncle Benny
Posted on 10/12/2009 10:56:13 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Pastor Benny Hinn is being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee and was recently denied entry into the United Kingdom.
And talking he is, about the finance probe, his lavish lifestyle and accusations that his faith healings are fake because he offers no documentation or verification that he has, in fact, helped the blind see and the crippled walk.
“They question me on why I don’t verify,” Hinn says. "I answer, ‘God never called me to verify. I’m not a doctor.'”
Hinn says, his ministry created a department to handle verifications and follow up on the "miracles."
"The staff would call and people would be mad and say, 'Why are you questioning that I was lying up there?’”
“Then we would call the doctors. They wouldn’t talk to us most of the time so it didn’t work.”
Benny Hinn Ministries doesn’t publish its finances, but one report estimated it takes in $100 million a year.
The committee is investigating whether the ministries are using their tax-exempt status to further God's work — or to fund luxuries like mansions, expensive cars and private jets.
Grassley’s office confirms this, saying Benny Hinn Ministries is one of only two that have cooperated completely with the Finance Committee's requests.
But questions still loom about Hinn's lavish lifestyle and his private plane, which he says his ministry owns.
The pastor defends both, saying that "in today’s world, there’s this idea that preachers are supposed to be poor, wearing sandals and riding bicycles, I guess … which is really nonsense.
“The Lord wants us to follow His righteous life, but yet we have to exist in the 21st century. You can’t be going about riding a bicycle and to travel the world … that is not smart."
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Too bad the media didn’t give a damn about a charlatan like Jeremiah Wright and never bothers to investigate where it is that Reverend Al Sharpton or Reverend Jessie Jackson got their titles or where they preach every week.
Charlatan!
I say, a pox on all of their houses.
That was easy...next question?
Toufik Benedictus Hinn aka Uncle Benny
Charlatan
The media really hasn’t with Hinn either.
It seems they are perfectly happy to allow him to do his damage to Christianity.
Is there a word stronger than charlatan?
When will the House investigate Pastor Charlie Rangle to the same degree?
Just as the media trots out the doings of Fred Phelps (D).
Would “blasphemer” work?
For a small donation of $100 I will give you the answer.
I prefer Benny Hill.
>>>Would “blasphemer” work?<<<
Works for me! Heretic applies as well. BTW, how long do you think it will be before a Hinn supporter fires Psalm 105:15 at us? :)
There are plenty of good words to describe him, but most of them would probably get you banned.
At least he had "Angels."
I don’t usually like to say bad things about men of God, but in this case I don’t think it applies.
I do not think that Congress should be wasting their time on this one guy. Now, if they went through ALL non-profits and Hinn was included, that would be a good thing.
Hello, Jesse Jackson? Mind if we take a peek atcher books?
God told you so?
Yes, in his Word.
His works will be judged by God one day, and that is the only judgment that counts.
racketeer
Some of Benny’s prophetic utterances:
12-31-89:
“The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90’s. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God.”
“The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid 90’s, about ‘94-’95, no later than that, God will destroy the homosexual community of America. But He will not destroy it - with what many minds have thought Him to be, He will destroy it with fire. And many will turn and be saved, and many will rebel and be destroyed.”
In April 2000, Benny proclaimed that Syria’s Hafez Assad would sign a peace treaty with Israel, Assad died in June.
Benny Hinn is a false prophet and is no man of God.
Take that to the bank.
I saw stacks and stacks of devices which the cured had discarded after their prayers were answered.
Crutches, braces, wheelchairs - more than you could count in a day.
Curiously, I failed to see even a single wooden leg.
The Asian angel is definitely 100% not guilty.
I’m more concerned when we are demanded to pay for the crooks in DC vs. those people who willing give their money.
Those who trash our Constitution to tear down America as she is known. And fill jobs w/known crooks, commies and liars. THAT affects me - not what Benny Hinn does or we are told he does.
Anything to take eyes off of the REAL crooks stealing from us and the USA.
In his own sleazy way, Hinn has damaged as many people as Wright or Jackson, not to mention the harm he has done to Christianity.
LOL, that’s called being slain in the spirit, that it just not right, I wouldn’t go within 10 miles of a church like that ...
Who supports the televangelists? At least Dr. Gene Scott was generally on message (despite using money for horses and the like).
But he was still a guest on the Tonight Show in the 1960s because he said such wacky things.
Looney....but not as looney as “the Reverends” on the left....also to my knowledge, I have never seen him say anything topical or political...just goofy.
And all those young babes—what were they all about?
Ouch. The only answer I can think of from a religious stand point (pun intended) is a missing leg does not hurt or cause pain? Best I could come up with. I had a sports injury on vacation that caused my left arm to have violent spurts of pain and spasms. Something to do with a spinal disk hitting a nerve. I went to a saint's tomb a week after the injury and prayed. No pain relief. I came home a week later and doctor says I am in line for a long recovery period and maybe surgery and he does give me pills for swelling and for the pain. A month goes by and pain is gone. The doctor says my recovery seems "miraculous" to him to have had what I have heal so quickly with no therapy.
With that said - no limb grew back and I am a rationalist but stuff like that does make you take a second look at the world of miracles.
False Prophet
He’s the Flim Flam man
Fidel's still only 83 so there's a few years to run on that one. < /psychic excuser>
Guilty.
Course you heard about the healing service he had a few years back. He asked for anyone who needed healing to come forward. A woman on crutches hobbled up and a middle-aged man. Benny asked the woman her name and what he could do to help her. She said her name was Mrs. Smith and she could not walk or stand without the aid of her crutches. He told her to proceed around behind the curtain.
He turned to the man and said, “What is your name and what can I do for you, sir?” The man replied, “Mr. Jones, I have thith lithp that I have had all my life.” Benny also instructed him to go behind the curtain.
He then called out, “Mrs. Smith, I want you to throw your right crutch over the curtain.” The crutch came flying over. “Now, Mrs. Smith,” he said, “I want you to throw your left crutch over the curtain.” The other crutch came sailing over the curtain.
“Mr. Jones, I command you to speak!” Benny exhorted.
“Mith Thmith jutht fell on her ath.” he meekly replied.
Sorry...no offense. An oldie but goodie!
Fake
What say you, DG?? LOL
Bamboozler
Could you do that to Obama too please?
I just don’t see Jesus behaving like that.....
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