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To: boatbums
IF Hinn has the gift of speaking in tongues, why does he need interpreters for his crusades? Hmmmm???

Maybe he has a very bad, very hard to understand accent when speaking in tongues? Reminds me of the old Mark Twain quote that goes something like: "when i was in France, i never could get those idiots to understand their own language!" Of course the real answer to your question is that Hinn is the sort of man who wants to spread the wealth around, wants to pay people to interpret for him even though he hardly needs their help.

And speaking of speaking in tongues, this post was written with tongue firmly planted in cheek, just in case there was any doubt. : d

30 posted on 10/10/2009 7:05:17 PM PDT by Humbug (hmm mmm mmmm)
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To: Humbug

me like u! ;)


31 posted on 10/10/2009 7:26:37 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: Humbug; ikka; boatbum
Hinn has no church. He belongs to no denomination. He's not even affiliated with any particular religion, although his buzz words indicate he tends to dwell on the freaky fringe of Pentecostalism. As recently as three centuries ago, he probably would have been burned as a heretic. To give you some idea of his doctrinal strangeness, he once preached that the Trinity is actually nine persons because each member of the Trinity—Father, Son, Holy Spirit—is also a Trinity. He also says that God and the Holy Spirit have real bodies with eyes, hands, mouth, etc. Various theologians have trashed Hinn, of course, for preaching "new revelations" directly from God that turn out to be, when examined, variations of thousand-year-old heresies. He thinks of himself as a prophet (even when his prophecies don't come true) and, in one burst of grandeur, "a new messiah walking on the earth." He believes that the Biblical Adam flew into outer space; that when God parted the Red Sea he made it into a wall of ice; that God talks to him more frequently than he talked to, say, Moses; that a man has risen from the dead in his presence; that a man turned into a snake before his eyes; that angels come to his bedroom and talk to him; and that the only reason we're not all in perfect health, living forever, is that there are demons in the world, attacking us. He's expressed opinions normally heard only on schizophrenia wards, and he's done it in front of millions of people—and still they come. They come in such numbers that thousands have to be turned away, and even the ones turned away gladly give him their money.
34 posted on 10/10/2009 7:44:28 PM PDT by aruanan
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