Posted on 02/21/2010 6:38:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
After more than 30 years of marriage, faith healer Benny Hinn may be heading to divorce court.
Benny Hinn Ministries on Thursday confirmed that his wife, Suzanne Hinn, filed a petition for divorce in Orange County Superior Court on Feb. 1. She cited irreconcilable differences.
Though the couple separated on Jan. 26, according to court papers, the organization released a statement expressing shock.
"Pastor Benny Hinn and his immediate family were shocked and saddened to learn of this news without any previous notice," said Don Price, longtime senior advisor to Benny Hinn Ministries. "Although Pastor Hinn has faithfully endeavored to bring healing to their relationship, those efforts failed and were met with the petition for divorce that was filed without notice."
Just months before the petition, world renowned and controversial preacher Benny Hinn had come out to the public to answer his critics for the first time.
For years, Hinn has been a subject of scrutiny by the media and recently the government for the miraculous healings he claims to perform and the lavish lifestyle he leads. He travels to cities across the globe conducting "miracle crusades" and services. Reports from each event indicate that dozens are miraculously healed from a physical ailment, though Hinn admitted to ABC News recently that he doesn't have medical verification of the healings.
He also told ABC he has no misgivings about the comfortable lifestyle a private jet, fancy hotel stays, and a multimillion-dollar home he leads.
"Look, you know there's this idea supposedly that we preachers are supposed to walk about with sandals and ride bicycles. That's nonsense," he said.
Hinn is currently under a Senate investigation for possible financial misconduct.
How is Hinn a con?
Well, he’s an apostate Orthodox Christian. Orthodox observers have recognized that when Hinn “speaks in tongues” his is actually reciting old snatches of prayers in Greek and Arabic from his childhood, not receiving some inspired speech from the Holy Spirit.
And, while God does sometimes heal through faith (cf. the lives of saints we Orthodox call Unmercenary Healers) the commercialization of faith healing is inevitably a sure sign of a con.
Looks like he used a real machine gun.
YIKES!!
(The guy makes my skin crawl... Ecch!)
No, it was her in the video I viewed....I think I get your point though.....
What does...’preaching by the power of an unclean spirit’, mean?
:-)
Verse 15- “But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.”
Also Verse 39 is interesting. “The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.”
As to your assertion: got a Bible verse for that?
...who doesn’t look anything like the woman in the famous “enema” video, or not much like.
What’s up with that?
If you haven’t already, you should view the one with Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Hagin called “Pentecostal Bedlam”......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgByE0pX1M .....It doesn’t strike me as the moving of The Holy Spirit......Disturbing....
Acts Chapter 16 16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation." 18 And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And he came out that very hour. 19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
Matthew Chapter 12 43 "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation."
The woman in the photo looks nothing like the whack-job in the video link above. Are they the same person? Anyone know for sure?
by Sandy Simpson
I have been receiving e-mails and watching Benny Hinn for the last few nights on TV. This new turn toward the "dark side of the force" (you know, the "force of faith") with Benny and his wife is revealing, disturbing, and saddening.
First we were treated to a video tape on Comedy Central's "God Stuff" of Mrs. Suzanne Hinn shouting that some Christians need "a Holy Ghost enema up their rear ends" and then proceeding to scream and slide across the stage on her belly.
Not be be outdone by his wife, Benny Hinn has recently been seen growling in a weird voice, laying curses on Christians who disagree with him (this is nothing new), knocking children down with "slain in the spirit" while yelling things like "Fire" and "Execute him", and prophesying over Paul Crouch with what I can only describe as a papal air. The new "pope" of Charismania, Benny Hinn, is making sure to have all the leaders of the Third Wave on his interview style program these days such as Kenneth Copeland, Rod Parsley, Joyce Meyers and Rodney Howard-Browne. This is so we and they will be sure to understand that it is really Hinn who is the apostolic father with the greatest amount of the "anointing". What's next? Crouch and Copeland kissing his ring or feet? I guess since he knocked Paul on his backside, when in an earlier "Praise The Lord" show Crouch had made fun of people who fall backwards needing catchers (interestingly Paul needed one) Paul was right down there next to Hinn's big toe and should have kissed it while he is there.
We now have these reports streaming in from viewers of the "new" (is anything these people do "new" or even interesting) Benny Hinn "anointing".
Coming Soon, the new owner of the I-sore on I-4
That’s Suzanne Hinn in the video...
There is a certain irony in this statement.
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