From WAY OF LIFE MINISTRIES.
A HERETICK & FALSE TEACHER.
SO, DID HE TRULY REPENT?
BENNY HINN’S REPENTANCE NOT
LIKE THAT OF ZACCHAEUS (Friday Church News Notes, May 6, 2022,www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - A little
over two years ago, Pentecostal healing evangelist Benny Hinn said he was
correcting his theology. “I’m sorry to say that prosperity has gone a little
crazy and I’m correcting my own theology and you need to all know it. Because
when I read the Bible now, I don’t see the Bible in the same eyes I saw 20
years ago. I think it’s an offense to the Lord, it’s an offense to say give
$1,000. I think it’s an offense to the Holy Spirit to place a price on the
Gospel. I’m done with it. I will never again ask you to give $1,000 or whatever
amount, because I think the Holy Ghost is just fed up with it” (Sept. 2, 2019).
The prosperity gospel made Hinn and his family millions, as documented in his
nephew’s book God, Greed, and the Prosperity
Gospel. If Hinn were truly repentant, he would follow Zacchaeus’ example. “And
Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I
give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false
accusation, I restore him fourfold” (Lu. 19:8).
Millions have attended Hinn’s crusades, watched his television programs, and
read his books, and the prosperity gospel is only one of his many heresies. The
man is a lying false prophet. He allegedly had his first vision of Jesus at age
11 and had an eight-hour private conversation with the Holy Spirit (Hinn, Rise and Be Healed, pp. 1, 22). Hinn tosses the “anointing of the Holy Spirit”
like a baseball and “slays people in the spirit” by blowing on them. He teaches
the heresy that healing is promised in Christ’s atonement. “God is not going to
heal you now--he healed you 2,000 years ago. All you have to do today is
receive your healing by faith” (Hinn, Rise and Be Healed, p. 44). He said, “We must never say, ‘If it be thy will,
Lord.’” Though Hinn claimed that one thousand people were healed at each of his
“miracle services,” researchers were unable to verify any healings (Florida Magazine, Nov. 24, 1991). Hinn’s ministry sent Hank Hanegraaff three
prime examples of the supposed thousands of healings that have occurred through
his ministry, including the case of the healing of colon cancer, but when Dr.
Preston Simpson investigated he found that the colon tumor had been surgically
removed rather than miraculously healed and that the other two cases were also
bogus (Hank Hanegraaff, What’s Wrong with the Faith
Movement, Part 1,http://www.equip.org/free/DC755-1.htm). Anthony
Thomas followed up on five of Hinn’s best healing cases for a year and
concluded, “In my experience, there was nothing that we saw that in any way
could qualify as a miracle” (“Documentary Questions Healing Miracles,” Christian News, April 30, 2001, p. 19). NBC television’s Dateline program asked Hinn’s ministry to provide confirmation of the 56
cases of healing that were claimed at one of his crusades. Hinn’s people could
only come up with five cases of what they called “irrefutable and medically
proven miracles,” but when Dateline researched these cases
they found that only one of the people could provide medical records, and her
doctor suspected that the woman never had the Lou Gehrig’s disease she claimed
to have been healed of (Charisma Online, Feb. 20, 2003). On Sunday,
April 30, 2000, four people died in Nairobi, Kenya, during a Benny Hinn
“Miracle Crusade” (Reuters News Service, “Four Die Waiting for ‘Miracle’
Cures,” May 4, 2000). They had been released from a hospital to be cured at
Hinn’s meeting.