Well, my wife likes Hinn. She seems to get a lot out of his preaching.
Something about him doesn't sit quite right with me, however. I have never heard him preach heresy or anything unbiblical, but it's just a gut reaction.
I could be wrong.
That's why Billy Graham was so loved for so many years. He always stuck to a basic gospel message.
In addition to his troubles with the IRS and numerous fraud investigations, he also has given three or four radically different accounts of his own testimony.
I have never heard him preach heresy or anything unbiblical, but it's just a gut reaction.
There are two things about Hinn that strike me as doctrinally surprising, both from my own Catholic perspective and from what I would consider a typical Protestant perspective:
(1) His claim that he was spiritually anointed by touching the grave of Aimee Semple McPherson and his further claim that he returns to that grave regularly to be reanointed. Even Catholics, who believe that saints' relics are holy, would find this a strange claim.
(2) His repeated claims that "whatever you pray for, God will give it to you" - whereas most Christians believe that God will give us what is good for us, not necessarily what we want at any given moment.
(3) His statement that "the Word has become flesh in me. I am not part of Him, I am Him!" and similar comments.
(4) His continual claiming of the ability to predict the future and his completely failed predictions.
(5) When he was criticized by other evangelical ministers he said "I wish He would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun to blow their heads off." When questioned about it later he said "I meant blow their heads off with the truth."
In the past few years he's toned down his language quite a bit and is trying to keep a lower and less controversial profile during the ongoing investigation.