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.
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