The Christian Sentinel

Posted March 2003

Questions for Benny Hinn

Editor's note: Throughout much of 2000 and 2001, Dave Joe, an attorney representing the Benny Hinn ministries repeatedly pledged to give The Christian Sentinel the answers to our questions concerning Hinn's doctrine and questionable statement he made.  Some who have already been investigating Hinn told us, "don't hold your breath -- you'll never get answers."  They were right.  I am now asking our readers to copy these questions and mail them to Benny Hinn, asking why he never answered.  If you get an answer will you let me know by writing to me?  

-- Bill Alnor

 

Questions for Benny Hinn

1.  Under "the anointing" on 12/31/89 you made several prophecies of things the Lord was showing you was to take place in the 1990s. They didn't happen. Are you therefore a false prophet that one no one should listen to when prophesying?

bullet"The Spirit of God tells me an earthquake will hit the east coast of America and destroy much in the 90s."
bullet"The Spirit tells me Fidel Castro will die in the 90's. . . Oooh! Holy Spirit just said to me it'll be worse than any death you can imagine."
bullet"The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid-90s -- about '94 or '95, no later than that -- God will destroy the homosexual community of America . . . He will destroy it with fire."

2.  You presented a prophecy given by the late Ruth Heflin to the TBN viewers on 4/20/2000. She said that Jesus "will appear physically on the platform in one of our crusades. . . and the crowds will see him on the platform." "Dear God, my hair is standing up," you add. You also said, "In a service somewhere, I don't remember where now . . . the lord appeared right in the service and the cameras caught it. We have it on tape (10/22/96). Last year you had on a guest, D. G. S. Dhinakaran of "Jesus Calls" ministry in India on your program and also on Praise the Lord who claimed to have been visited physically by Jesus and also visited him in heaven. You told your viewers to expect Jesus to physically show up at one of your upcoming crusades. After she died and a year went by, we don't hear you saying that anymore. How can you believe such things and promote this when we're told by the angels in the first chapter of Acts that "this same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven." And we're told that when He returns, "every eye shall see Him." If you point out a physical Jesus in your meetings, under the Bible's standards it would be an antichrist, not the real Christ. Jesus said, "If they say he's in the inner chambers, do not believe them." Please explain yourself.

3.  You said years ago that you would not pronounce anyone healed without first having a doctor substantiate that. Yet as seen on the HBO expose and elsewhere you are taking the people's word for it and presenting them as healed. You admitted on Behind-the-Scenes the other day that some healings are merely psychosomatic and people get right back in their wheelchairs after leaving your crusades. Why have you broken that promise?

4.  Read the attached article written by Jackie Alnor about the Pat Robertson prophecy that you presented as trustworthy to the entire TBN audience. You told them if they did not double their giving in 1999 they would not survive the year 2000 since global disasters would hit America. HBO showed you repeat those warnings as you took up your offering. Now that 2000 has come and gone and even the non-givers are no worse off, are you going to do a public apology to TBN viewers for using a false prophecy to increase pledges? If not, why not?

5.  In reference to the same article cited above, you shared a dream you had of Elijah handing you his rod and proclaimed Mark Chirona a prophet after he interpreted that to mean that your ministry would fulfill all the prophecies concerning the coming of Elijah (referred to as the spirit of Elijah by Chirona). Do you see the danger, prophetically speaking, of accepting such a designation and presuming Elijah's authority upon yourself, considering the end times prophecies of a false prophet who will speak for the antichrist? The false prophet presents the antichrist as Christ according to Bible prophecy. And as noted earlier, you anticipated presenting a physical being as Christ in your meetings.

6.  On Behind the Scenes the other night (4/17/01) you seemed to contradict yourself. You said, "When God does it, it's definite (claps hands). When God heals them, they can't go right back in that wheelchair again because then God did it. And God doesn't do it and then take it back." And towards the end of that special 1-hour program you said, "You know, one more thing I would like to do because I think there are questions about why people lose healings. And I think a lot have probably questioned this since this and I'm sure even in other cases they have. Paul, I'm doing a whole teaching on what I've never done before on how to keep your healing and also why some people lose. Because I've seen this happen over the last 20-some years" Explain the contradiction.

7.  You placed a curse on any man or woman who would criticize your "anointing." You found some obscure Old Testament verse to justify this. Yet on the Behind the Scenes the other night you said that the Lord was telling you to forgive your opponents and you quoted the New Testament to prove that should be your attitude. Do you now admit that you did not really hear from the Lord when you placed that curse on people in the low, gravely voice that didn't even sound like you?

8.  You speak much of your personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. Yet you and your wife have both used His name in vain. You threatened your critics with a "Holy Ghost Machine Gun" and your wife smeared the Third Person of the Trinity with her comments of a "Holy Ghost Enema." How can you slur Him and claim you're in fellowship with Him at the same time?

9.  In your books, especially "He Touched Me," you say that you feel the Holy Ghost outside of yourself in the room or elsewhere. Since the Bible teaches that He fills us and is "in" the believer, why does your "Holy Ghost" appear to you as an apparition, which is popular in Catholic mysticism and the occult?

10.  Why don't you follow the New Testament's injunction about how to pray for the sick among us as is given in the epistle of James? We're told the sick are to call the elders to come and anoint them with oil and pray the prayer of faith and then they would recover. We do not see any "healing ministries" in the New Testament.

 

           

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