yikes.
thump.
Posted on 01/03/2002 3:27:12 PM PST by VaBthang4
On todays program Benny Hinn announced that he had a vision and the Lord explained to him that the Lord was going to topple the current government of Iran.
He said that the Lord would show favor to the people of Iran because of the assistance Persian Kings gave in rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem [2 Chronicles 36:23,24].
The feed is a video of the "this is your day" program.
First of All, I recommended Christianity in Crisis because it contains a detailed account of false teachings. In fact, I heard that if you order the audio book you can heard actually hear them making the false teachings.
And when we read the Bible and attempt to apply its teachings. We see how hersey was publicly opposed, not ignored. Books of the New Testament were written to refute false teachings. Paul publicly rebuked Peter for his withdrawing from eating with the gentiles(his refusal to eat was a theological issue). And Paul publicly rebuked others by name (see 2 Tim 4:10.)
How would you respond to a minister who persisted in making false teachings? What is the Biblical response?
If you asked any one of them to list the essential doctrines of the historic Christian faith, none of those "professing Christians could do it.
Karl Marx called them "useful idiots". Barnum called them suckers". The religion racket says, "Shhhhhhh!! We couldn't get along without them."
So far the medical doctors have been unable to figure out how to surgically remove all that make-up from Jan Crouch, and they're baffled totally by her hair wig -- attempt to remove it surgically, or use lasers? ;-)
Nicely put. The focus of this thread should be on Benny Hinn. Did he make false prophecies? Did he make unBiblical teachings?
Whither or not the spiritual gifts that the Church had in the 1st century are still in effect today is a separate issue. And one that I suspect would require book-length posts to effectively address.
I do believe Hinn is a smooth Con Artist, prancing on stage in his $2400 silk suit and white bucks. He doesn't impress me as a humble person.
Now, Billy Graham, there is a REAL man of God.
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God's gifts are real. His power is real. He still works mighty wonders. However...Hinn is false as a 3 dollar bill.
I know people who believe every word of these so-called preachers and not much of the Bible. One woman has a retarded daughter with mental and physical defects. It was my job to tell her that her daughter would not be 'healed'. She expected her daughter to turn miraculously beautiful and to have full mental function. She was not being realistic. Sure, God could have changed her daughter, but He made her that way for a reason.
God may use everything in our lives to bring us to Him. This includes physical illness.
Forget Hinn and start reading the Bible yourself. It takes discipline, but if you do so everyday, you will find the truth out for your self. Seek and you will find.
When these guys pray for a person they do so in the name of JESUS. NONE of them claim to do it themselves. They all recognize that any healing power comes from God, not them.
you will notice that whenever any prominent member of TBN(Trinity Broadcasting Network), has a serious medical problem, they always go running to the real healers, who are the medical doctors...
None of these Christian evangilists that believe in God's healing claim that one does not need a doctor. In their preaching they claim that everyone needs a doctor. The apostle Luke was a doctor. There have been some cults that claim God doesn't want us to use medical doctors, but not true Christian evangilists. Oral Roberts even started a medical school at ORU to integrate God's prayer with the medical profession.
I am not judging him
You've got to be kidding. Venomous contempt drips from every sentence you wrote.
yikes.
thump.
Sueann said it best (#66) "Touch not God's anointed! (and I didn't say it) If it's GOD, there will be nothing you can do to stop it - if it's not GOD, GOD is more than capable of taking care of it. END
He has you under his cult like spell, and taken away your rational mind
God said we must renew our minds - better get with it.
The biblical response is take someone with you and reprove, rebuke, and if they don't hear you or receive the truth, recognize them as in error and false and go out the door...from such turn away, dust off your feet, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. They are of their father, the devil and you cannot compromise with Truth. Ecumenicism is, of course, of the devil and the antichrist and most who say they are Christians seem to practice some form of ecumenicism.
I wasn't suggesting Benny Hinn wasn't false. He likely is false. I was suggesting that Hannegraff may also be equally false. I used to listen to Hannegraff on the radio, then started seeking the Lord and the Lord pointed out many more were false than I had thought and I think Hannegraff spouts many of the false doctrines of the day. Read false prophets (click here). Scott Hofstee who accurately prophesied the WTC fall before it happened wrote that anyone selling their ministry is false and that seems right even though it includes a most ministries including radio and tv ministries and the whole Christian Book Seller's Convention.
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