BENNY HIMM: A FALSE PROPHET

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"For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake." —Titus

Notwithstanding that Benny Hinn is about the most sought after false prophet and teacher in today’s religious world, he falsely predicted that all the homosexuals in America would die by fire in the late 1990's. Benny Hinn has also  stated that there are mine  beings within the Godhead. Three  beings (Tritheism) each have their own trinity of beings within each of them.

Benny Hinn teaches word-faith doctrine. Benny Hinn stated on the  Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) that after his crusade in South America in 2002, that he was certain that he would return to America with video footage of Jesus appearing on stage during his crusades because Jesus had told him this was going to happen. Needless to say, no person ever  saw the preferred video. Hinn also stated that very soon people would no longer need to take their deceased loved ones to the morgue and later bury them. Instead, their dead bodies should be placed in front of the television during the airing of his sermons and they would then rise from the dead. I don't have enough time in my lifetime to list all of the falseness of this phony prophet’s teachings spouted by him during his ministry.

Religious false prophets are becoming more prominent in today’s age of tolerance and rebellion against the God they believed in when they were young. This culture is eager yo accept an easy religion – one that requires no effort and offers no consequences. This generation more than any other wants to live the way they prefer without boundaries or guidance to lead them on the right paths of decency and consideration for all who deserve it.  

Unfortunately, there are plenty of false teachers and preachers who are eager to give the people what they want to hear and usually, the gullible fools who swallow that crap that oozes  out of the mouths of the false prophets, end up giving  large sums of money to these false prophets. From feel-good prosperity preachers, to teachers who deny the literal existence of eternity, to religious leaders of the popular earn-your-way-to-heaven efforts; these false prophets are everywhere. 

In  2 Timothy 4: 3-4, "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."

False teachers will lead their congregation to believe that God wants them to be happy and wealthy. Some teachers even take it further, and declare that if a Christian isn’t financially rich, or isn’t emotionally and relationally prosperous, they just “aren’t praying hard enough” or “need to increase their faith”. This type of teaching is dangerous and inaccurate. The Bible clearly states otherwise about the expectations of what this world has to offer. 

In Mark 10:25, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

You can be sure that these false prophets never have that quotation uttering from their mouths.

False teachers don’t like to offend anyone, so they gloss over sin in order to keep their fans happy. They often do this by stating a particular controversial so-called sin such as homosexuality, and fornication, adultery, gluttony or greed isn’t a sin and for this reason, there’s no need to worry or change heir ways. It doesn’t  surprise me at all that these happy fools who go to these false prophet’s meetings willingly accept such teachings by their false prophets.

False prophets are content to preach that they believe there’s no need for repentance because Jesus died for everyone. They teach that we should just be grateful for his sacrifice   and that’s all there is to it.

Tell that to a defendant about to be sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.  Imagine him saying the following when asked by the judge if he has anything to say before the sentence is passed upon him.

“Your honour. I have no repentance to offer to the parents in this court room for me killing their children because Jesus died for me like he died for every other sinner like me.”

That fool would have then convinced his judge to raise the number of years on his sentence to natural life in prison.

In a stunning reversal, this controversial televangelist and faith healer, Benny Hinn announced to his followers that he will no longer preach the “prosperity gospel,” a teaching that says believers will be rewarded with health and wealth as long as they give monetary offerings to their churches and pastors.

He said in a live video posted to his Facebook page, “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.”

Hinn’s renouncement of his former teachings was received with overwhelming approval from his audience, but according to writer and podcaster Karen Alea, Hinn should not be believed.

In a guest post for the Friendly Atheist, Alea points out that Hinn’s website still asks donors to give up to $1,000 a month to Hinn’s ministry. Additionally, just two days after Hinn’s video aired, he asked his followers to send him seed money for “debt elimination.” As Alea pointed out, the video was quickly deleted, but someone changed the video and put together a mashup that included Hinn’s requests for money. This man is a hypocrite.

Proponents of the prosperity gospel often use the term “seed money” as a way to market their requests. Just as seed money is used by investors to help launch companies or projects in exchange for a cut on the ensuing profits, believers can put forward seed donations in exchange for monetary growth as a reward from God.

“When’s he going to “rebuke” himself?” Alea wrote. “Hinn hasn’t given up the prosperity gospel. He just found a better marketing strategy for it.”

In my opinion and probably in the opinions of many, Christianity is one of the biggest scams in the United States. Of course, there are some exceptions. Benny Hinn is considered by many as being evil. He impoverishes people on purpose. He, and those scumbags like him, should all be ignored.

Do you really believe that if Jesus promised to heal his followers  if they had to give him money, his legacy wold still have the respect it  continues to deserve?  

Despite the fact that Hinn is a super star on TBN – the trinity broadcast network, his kind define what’s wrong with Christian television ministries. If there really is a hell, there is a special spot set aside and prepared for this greedy hypocrite.

Hinn and other religious type scumbags, are scamming people by telling them that they will make back the money they send at ten times over. That's a scam. It is even worse than a pyramid scheme, or chain letters.

Many years ago in the last century, there was a preacher who said that if we sent him ten dollars, he would send us a small crucifix that would bring us good luck. I wrote him a letter and said I was very poor and didn’t have the money to give him. I asked him if he could still give me one of his small crucifixs. Believe it or not, he actually sent me a small crucifix and wished me well. Now there was an honest and decent preacher of the Gospel. I don’t know if the crucifix brought me good luck but after that time in my life. I had and still have a good life. Of course, we actually have to make our good luck. I wrote him back and thanked him for his consideration.

 Hinn and his ilk are parasites. The 'blab and grab' seed money scam postulates into believing  that god wants them to be rich.  I realize that these grifters will never give anyone their cash because the con does not work that way. Or should I say, it works in reverse.

In March 1993 Inside Edition reported on Hinn's $685,000 ($25  nillion in 2019) Orlando home and Mercedes-Benz, despite Hinn having previously claimed he was living in a "modest lifestyle".

An employee of Inside Edition also faked a healing from cerebral palsy which was shown on Hinn's regular broadcast. A controversial aspect of Hinn's ministry is his teaching on, and demonstration of, a phenomenon he dubs "The Anointing"—the power purportedly given by God and transmitted through Hinn to carry out supernatural acts. At his Miracle Crusades, he has allegedly healed attendees of blindness,  deafness, cancer, AIDS, and severe physical injuries. However, investigative reports by the Los Angeles Times, NBC's Dateline, the CBC's The Fifth Estate, and the Nine Network's 60 Minutes have called these claims into  serious doubt.

Hey. If this phony preacher can get money from fools who believe and trust him, why don’t I offer you help with your serious illnesses? If you send me ten dollars, I will ask God to heal you.  What have you got to lose other than your ten dollars?  Come on now. God is waiting for my call to him to heal you from your inoperable brain cancer.

Hinn has also caused controversy for theological remarks and claims he has made during TV appearances. In 1999, Hinn appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, claiming that God had given him a vision predicting the resurrection of thousands of dead people after watching the network—laying out a scenario of people placing their dead loved ones' hands on TV screens tuned into the station—and suggesting that TBN would be "an extension of Heaven to Earth."  Did the Owners of TBN really permit that garbage to be shown on their TV? Of course after all. Hinn  was paying them money for his broadcasts.

In April 2001, HBO aired a documentary entitled A Question of Miracles that focused on Hinn and a well-documented fellow Word-of-Faith German minister based in Africa, Reinhard Bonnke. Both Hinn and Bonnke offered full access to their events to the documentary crew, and the documentary team followed seven cases of "miracle healings" from Hinn's crusade over the next year. The film's director, Antony Thomas, told CNN's Kyra Phillips that they did not find any cases where people were actually healed by Hinn. Thomas said in a New York Times interview that "If I had seen miracles [from Hinn's ministry], I would have been happy to trumpet it but in retrospect, I think they do more damage to Christianity than the most committed atheists.

In November 2004, the CBC Television show The Fifth Estate did a special titled "Do You Believe in Miracles" on the apparent transgressions committed by Benny Hinn's ministry.

With the aid of hidden cameras and crusade witnesses, the producers of the show demonstrated Hinn's apparent misappropriation of funds, his fabrication of the truth, and the way in which his staff chose crusade audience members to come on stage to proclaim their miracle healings. In particular, the investigation highlighted the fact that the most desperate miracle seekers who attend a Hinn crusade—the quadriplegics, the brain-damaged, virtually anyone with a visibly obvious physical condition—are never allowed up on stage and those who attempt to get in the line of possible healings are intercepted and directed to return to their seats. Incidentally, that program was rebroadcasted in January 2o20. I saw it and that is why I decided to write this article for you.

At one Canadian service, hidden cameras showed a mother who was carrying her muscular dystrophy-afflicted daughter, Grace, being stopped by two screeners when they attempted to get into the line for a possible blessing from Hinn. The screeners asked the mother if Grace had been healed, and when the mother replied in the negative, they were told to return to their seats. The pair had  got out of line, but Grace, wanting Pastor Benny to pray for [her.  She asked her mother to support her as she tried to walk as a show of "her faith in action," according to the mother. After several unsuccessful attempts at walking, the pair left the arena in tears, both mother and daughter visibly upset at being turned aside and crying as they explained to the undercover reporters that all Grace had wanted was for Hinn to pray for her, but the staffers rushed them out of the line when they found out Grace had not been healed.

A week later at a service in Toronto, Baptist evangelist Justin Peters, who wrote his Masters in Divinity thesis on Benny Hinn and has attended numerous Hinn crusades since 2000 as part of his research for his thesis and for a seminar he developed about the Word of Faith movement entitled A Call for Discernment also demonstrated to the hidden cameras that "people who look like me"—Peters has cerebral palsy, walks with arm-crutches, and is obviously and visibly disabled—" they are never allowed on stage since it is  always somebody who has some disability or disease that cannot be readily seen. Like Grace and her mother, Peters was quickly intercepted as he came out of the wheelchair section (there is one at every crusade, situated at the back of the audience, far away from the stage, and never fiIn requestedlmed for Hinn's TV show) in an attempt to join the line of those waiting to go onstage, and was told to take a seat instead.

In 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley announced an investigation of Hinn's ministry by the United States Senate Committee on Finance. In a letter to BHM, Grassley asked for the ministry to divulge financial information to the Senate Committee on Finance to determine if Hinn made any personal profit from financial donations, and requested that Hinn's ministry make the information available.

The investigation also scrutinized five other televangelists such as Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, and Creflo Dollar. In December 2007, Hinn said he would not respond to the inquiry until 2008. (sounds like Trump) The ministry subsequently responded to the inquiry, and Grassley said that "...Benny Hinn has engaged in open and honest dialogue with committee staff. They have not only provided responses to every question but, in the spirit of true cooperation, also have provided information over and above what was asked of him.

 The investigation concluded in 2011 with no penalties or findings of wrongdoing. The final report raised questions about personal use of church-owned luxury goods and a lack of financial oversight on the ministries' boards, which are often populated with family and friends of the televangelist. Hinn's group reported to the committee that it complied with tax regulations and had made changes in compensation and governance procedures.

Hinn married Suzanne Harthern on the 4^th of August 1979. The couple have four children. Suzanne filed divorce papers in California's Orange County Superior Court on the  1^st of  February 2010, citing "irreconcilable differences. In July 2010, both Hinn and fellow televangelist Paula White  denied allegations in the National Enquirer that the two were engaged in an affair Hinn was sued in February 2011 by the Christian publishing house Strang Communications, which claimed that a relationship with White did occur and that Hinn had violated the morality clause of his contract with the company.

In May 2012, Hinn announced that he and Suzanne had begun reconciliation during the Christmas season of 2011, stating that the split had been caused by her addiction to prescription drugs and antidepressants and citing his busy schedule and lack of time for his wife and children. In October 2012, Hinn announced that he and Suzanne would remarry. Benny and Suzanne remarried on 3 March 2013, at the Holy Land Experience theme park, in a traditional ceremony lasting over two hours and attended by approximately 1,000 well-wishers, including many visiting Christian leaders. Jack Hayford referred to the remarriage as "a miracle of God's grace."

Well, I have said enough about this phony hypocritical so-called Christian preacher.

As a final statement, remember that God is waiting for my call. It  will only cost you ten dollars to be cured of your inoperable illness.