Assembly Line of god's False Miracles

As soon as they go down, the catchers throw them and push them off to the side to get the next people in. "God" is very efficient -- "The Fast Food of Healing," so-to-speak. I wonder if he was late for a divorce hearing?

"Prophet" Manasseh "Prophesying" with Benny Hinn via the Slughter of the Sheep

There are more videos and much to think about over at The Slaughter of the Sheep, I will post this much however, I think Benny Hinn got a bit scared at Manasseh's ambitious "grab-and-throw" before any catchers were near the guy who was "slain in the spirit" (e.g., thrown, roughed up). This second video illustrates what drives these charlatans -- hint: cha-ching!

Benny Hinn Reads PR Statement About His Divorce (from: The Word on the Word of Faith)

(The Word on the Word of Faith h/t)

Huge Word-Faith/Cult News: Benny Hinn’s Wife (Suzzane Hinn) Files for Divorce

 

This article came from The Word on The Word of Faith (group blog) -- I am sure that either we will hear of a large sum of money handed over to keep Suzanne Hinn (Benny's wife) quit, or she will start spilling the beans on many aspects of Benny Hinn -- from false miracles, to mistresses, to cover-ups... who knows. This is going to get good! Maybe it will go to court and we will all hear about the corruption together?

By GILLIAN FLACCUS

The Associated Press
Thursday, February 18, 2010; 7:37 PM

ORANGE, Calif. — The wife of televangelist Benny Hinn has filed for divorce in Southern California.

Suzanne Hinn filed the papers in Orange County Superior Court on Feb. 1, citing irreconcilable differences, after more than 30 years of marriage. The papers note the two separated on Jan. 26 and that Hinn has been living in Dana Point, a wealthy coastal community in southern Orange County.

 “Pastor Benny Hinn and his immediate family were shocked and saddened to learn of this news without any previous notice,” Benny Hinn Ministries said Thursday in a statement. “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.”

Hinn is one of the best known advocates of the prosperity gospel, which teaches that Christians who are right with God will be rewarded with wealth and health in this lifetime.

His TV broadcasts on the Trinity Broadcast Network, a Pentecostal broadcasting juggernaut, and other TV networks are seen by millions of people around the world nearly every day. He travels the globe in his ministry’s plane, named Dove One, holding events he calls “Miracle Crusades” that include spiritual healings.

Hinn has never fully publicly disclosed how he spends the money he raises, but his vast ministry is believed to be a multimillion-dollar operation. There was no mention of finances in the court filing, which listed three recent Southern California addresses for the family.

Over the years, Hinn has been the target of intense criticism from fellow Christians and watchdog groups who call his teachings false and accuse him of raising money only to enrich himself.

He is one of six televangelists under investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, over whether he complied with IRS rules for nonprofits. Hinn has said on his Web site that external auditors ensure his compliance with IRS regulations and that in 2008, 88 percent of the money he collected was spent on ministry.

Benny Hinn Ministries is based in Grapevine, Texas, and operates a church and television studio in Aliso Viejo in California’s Orange County, according to its Web site.

Sorrell Trope, the attorney representing Suzanne Hinn, did not immediately return a call for comment. A woman at his office said the firm does not comment on divorce filings without the client’s approval.

J. Lee Grady, contributing editor of Charisma, a news magazine on the Pentecostal community, said Hinn’s divorce is the latest in a string of high-profile ministry divorces and moral failures among the Pentecostal leaders, beginning with Ted Haggard’s fall from grace in 2006.

Haggard, who is married and has five children, admitted to receiving a massage from a male prostitute and buying drugs from him, but denied allegations he paid the man for sex.

Grady said in an e-mail Thursday that Hinn’s followers will want an explanation for the divorce because of the high profile the couple had.

“It will be devastating to the people who have supported Benny Hinn’s evangelistic work around the world,” Grady said.

“Obviously because their ministry has been very public, they will need to issue a statement to their supporters to explain how this happened,” he said.

Associated Press Religion Writer Rachel Zoll in New York contributed to this report.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021803576.html

Benny Hinn Interview -- ABC Nightline

(Religion News Blog h/t)

Benny Hinn: ‘I Would Not Do This for Money’

Miraculous cures for cancer and AIDS, people in wheelchairs getting up and dancing. It’s business as usual for Benny Hinn, perhaps the world’s most famous, successful and controversial televangelist. Hinn is a faith-healer who almost never grants interviews — until now.

“I’ll try to explain it to you,” said Hinn in a wide-ranging interview with ABC’s “Nightline.” “The anointing, which is God’s power, comes on me. … I can actually feel it. And people start getting healed. ‘From the cancer, the pain is gone. … I was sitting on my wheelchair and I can walk now,’ such things like that.”

Benny Hinn on ABC Nightline, Oct. 19, 2009

Hinn took questions about disillusioned followers and about the U.S. senator who is investigating him. The questions clearly dismayed Hinn’s handlers.
[...]

His ministry collects an estimated $100 million a year in donations from people whom Hinn has convinced that God heals through him.

“Nightline” asked Hinn directly if he isn’t taking advantage of people who are profoundly religious, and vulnerable because they’re in physical pain, for his own personal enrichment.

“I’m glad you’re asking,” Hinn said. “Let me tell you something. I would not do this for money. If people think I would do this for money, after all the misery I’ve had to go through…”

“What misery?” I asked Hinn.

“Oh dear God, what misery? You name it. You’re a human being like me, how would you like to be called all those names. Who wants that? What you’re asking is am I using the so-called lie, that healings really happen so I can make money?

“Of course not. You cannot fool all the people all the time, right? … “I will tell you this. I think that if I was fooling the people over 35 years of it now, I would be caught already fooling them.”

Hinn admits he doesn’t have medical verification of any of the healings. In fact, some of his supposed healings have turned out not to have been real.
[...]

“These are things that I cannot explain because I am not the healer,” Hinn said. “I am human like you. I make mistakes like anybody else.”

Hinn’s answer is that God heals people in their seats, and that he, Hinn, is not responsible for what people claim once they get onstage.
[...]

Hinn may be more confident than the team that surrounds him. Over the course of the “Nightline” interview with Hinn, his publicist started to interrupt, angrily.

The atmosphere got charged when talk turned to an ongoing probe of Hinn by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
[...]

He said he was “absolutely” confident that he is using the money appropriately.
[...]

“I mean look, every man of God that I know today has a nice house,” Hinn said. “And they drive cars, and they have BlackBerrys or iPhones or whatever. It’s what we need today to simply exist. … Absolutely I need a private plane. For the ministry it’s a necessity, not a luxury. … It’s a necessity for me to have my own private plane to fly so I can go and do what God called me to do around the world. If I should fly commercial I would wear out. With my schedule? It would be madness.”

What is his salary? I asked.

“I’m not gonna give you the exact amount, but it’s, uh, over a half-million.”

Hinn said he’d like to cut his salary to zero.
[...more...]

Sickness Demonic? Caused by Sin?

"All sickness if it is demonic is controlled by the spirit of infirmity" ~ Benny Hinn

True Christians do not get Sick:
• Benny Hinn
• Hobart Freeman
• Fred Price
• Fred Price
• Kenneth Copeland

Sickness is Demonic:
• Robert Tilton
• Benny Hinn

Mother accused in daughter’s death thought sickness was sin, former friend testifies:

A mother accused of homicide for praying as her 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes believed people got sick because they sinned, a former friend and Bible study partner testified Tuesday.

Leilani Neumann, 41, is on trial for second-degree reckless homicide in her daughter Madeline’s death March 23, 2008, at the family’s rural Weston home.

Former friend Althea Wormgoor told a Marathon County jury that Neumann didn’t believe in doctors or medicine.

“Basically, you pray and do nothing but pray,” she said.

Wormgoor, who has four children, testified her family moved from California to Wisconsin in January 2008 to start a second coffee business with the Neumanns and participate in their weekly Bible studies.

But Wormgoor said by March 10, 2008, she and her husband realized they disagreed with the Neumanns about the business and faith healing.

The Wormgoors did not believe sin caused sickness. They also thought the Neumanns focused a lot on demons. Once, when one of their sons got sick, Leilani Neumann thought his vomiting was to rid his body of demons.....

This is what the Word-Faith teachers tech. That is, sickness is typically sin (either the persons or generational) or demonic. This is bad theology which causes a deadly praxology.

This Dumbness Is Spreading... This Guy Healed a Headache... Wow, Talk About Subjective!

A headache going away is now "supernatural." Almost anything can be called a miracle at this rate.

We mustn't forget the "godfather" though:

An Old Rodney Howard Browne clip... the "Holy Laughter" guy... (I watched this live, to show you how old I am. I thought it was demonic then, I still do)

John Crowder Grave site Folly - The Jesus Trips

While I am not down with everything this guy says... he has some great insights:

CBS Special on Benny Hinn - No Confirmed Miracles

Years ago, Hank Hanegraaff (KKLA - The Bible Answer Man - 99.5FM at 3pm) was given three "confirmed" miracles by Benny Hinn, However, none of the supposed three best proofs of healing never panned out! Here to, we find the same thing by CBS. So secular persons/shows, and Christians/shows have disproved this ministry, so-called.

(PART 1)

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You Will Know Them By Their Fruit -- Prophecy

Posted also at: The WORD on the Word of Faith

Deuteronomy 18:20-22

But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. (ESV)

Matt 24: 4, 11, 24

And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray…. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray …. For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.” (ESV)

Matt 7: 15-20

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.” (ESV)

Olsteen, like many other false prophets like Benny Hinn, Rod Parsley, and others, have been confronted gently and with Biblical precepts already. They have rebuffed the true Gospel of Christ for a false one. The movement they are part of, many decades ago, was at a place where they were merely misusing the gifts of the Spirit. However now, they teach New Age concepts wrapped in Gnostic theology. They have moved past the point where they are misusing God’s gifts and are charlatans, or in a few cases as have been documented here, have communed with evil spirits and occult practices (I speak of Benny Hinn and the Movement started in the Canadian Vineyard movement).

So this topic should never pass from these discussion boards. Critics, such as I, should point out new news about these false teachers whenever possible, so new Christians and those who are beholden to their theology can be challenged to further their understanding of what a true vs counterfeit gospel is.

I will post a quickie on Benny Hinn for those who have always wondered what the deal is with him. I study him quite a bit because I use to go to a few of his large meetings as a younger kid, we use to go as a family. When one studies the effects of singing the same song over and over and over again while expecting miracles, one will find how psychosomatic the mind can get, a technique used by cult figures to brainwash their followers. (See the close comparison between Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s new age cult “meditation” techniques with those of Lakeland):

PFO (Personal Freedom Outreach, a great counter-cult ministry) has obtained a cassette tape from a late-evening service on Dec. 31, 1989, at Hinn’s church, the Orlando Christian Center (now known as World Outreach Center). On this tape, Hinn presents a dramatic sequence of prophecies concerning events that were to occur in the 1990s. During the New Year’s Eve service, Hinn, supposedly under direct Divine influence and in a trance-like state, gave his audience a whimsical look into what he said would occur in the upcoming decade. It was then that Hinn moved into the most damaging segment of his prophecy. He said:

• The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid-nineties, about ‘94 or ‘95, no later than that, God will destroy the homosexual community of America.

Hinn’s declaration was greeted with a loud applause from his congregation. Perhaps the enthusiastic response caused Hinn to further bury himself:

• But He will not destroy it with what many minds have thought Him to be. But He will destroy it with fire. And many will turn and be saved, and many will rebel and be destroyed.

The audio of a few of Benny Hinn’s major false prophecies (including the one dealt with above and below) can be found in the following audio:

The first sentence probably refers to AIDS. Hinn has been confronted over undocumented claims of healing from AIDS, from which he has retreated quickly. Given that the homosexual population has become more overt and militant during the decade, it is obvious that Hinn has spoken with great presumption. The irony is that the Disney Corp., also based in Orlando, has given the homosexual community a great boost. This has led to a call by the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention for people to boycott Disney products, a move endorsed by publisher Stephen Strang, Hinn’s good friend (see Charisma, August 1996, pg. 88). There has been no nationwide destruction of homosexuals and evidently Hinn did not know that the mid-nineties would have a previously family-oriented organization lending its weight to a group and lifestyle that militates against the family. Can any good thing come out of Orlando? Probably so, but not accurate prophecy by Hinn.

In his quest to be a prophet, Hinn left nothing to personal interpretation with these statements. Remember his claim that the Lord told him as he repeatedly emphasized the source of his edict, and was exact in what would happen and to whom, and even provided a date by which the event would occur. Those who still consider Hinn anointed of God need to contemplate what the Lord has said concerning would-be prophets in Deuteronomy 18:21-22.

G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelman, eds., The Confusing World of Benny Hinn: A Call for Discerning the Ministry & Teaching of the Popular Healing Evangelist, 6th ed. (Saint Louis, MO: Personal Freedom Outreach, 1997), 172-173. Found at: http://www.pfo.org/confusing.htm

Some other resources:

• Prophecy Or Presumption? Time Is Running Out On The Spurious Oracles Of Benny Hinn
• BENNY HINN’S MOVE INTO NECROMANCY Faith Healer Claims Contact with the Dead Foretells New Direction for His Ministry