The Confusing World of Benny Hinn

By G. Richard Fisher

A Call for Discerning the Ministry and Teaching of the Popular Healing Evangelist. The Confusing World of Benny Hinn is a collection of several popular articles investigating the best-selling author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885591942
• ISBN13: 9781885591944
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Personal Freedom Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"send me your money...."

I often find myself tempted to throw 'send me your money' by suicidal tendencies in my cd player whenever Hinn, or any other televangelist of his nature is mentioned. I applaud these two Christian ministers for digging around and finding the dirt that is Hinn. And we wonder why Hinn is now being investigated by the IRS for tax evasion???? I've got a few theories, but let's start with Hinn preying on the minds of the innocent hopeful, making them pay insurmountable amounts of money to an outright hoax who claims to heal. If he genuinely had the power of Christ to heal then why the hell is he making such a ridiculously scandalous profit from it? Innocent people are buying into his garbage every day in the hopes that there is some healing for their diseases. Not that miracles cannot happen mind you... they're just not being performed by Hinn! Hinn is a HOAX and he's laughing all the way to the bank knowing it. If this sentence suprises you then you need to read this book NOW!!!!

A Hinndrance to Christianity

This book is a great place to start when introducing others to the various errors, lies, and abuses perpetrated by Benny Hinn. While the information here is somewhat dated, Benny goes on with the same cycle of teaching error, being confronted, retracting the error, and then starting the whole thing over again. And in keeping with the law of diminishing returns, his claims have been getting more outlandish. Remember when he said that Jesus was going to start appearing visibly in his meetings? He had better pray that that doesn't happen, because if Jesus showed up, it would be in judgment, and things would get ugly fast. One observation of the reviews on this site: the ones by supporters of Benny Hinndrance seem to be plagued by atrocious grammar, misspellings and sentence fragments. It seems that those supporting Benny are not very educated, and I am sure that is the way he likes it. The emperor can be buck naked if no one notices...

just read this book

I am 19 years old and am homeschooled. I just read this book as part of my schoolwork. After reading this book I wonder if this man is not intentionally deceiving people. I don't know this for sure, but I think it's possible. He totally contradicts himself. On one hand he says that he will stop promoting the prosperity gospel, then on another hand he goes right back to preaching it. Then there's the issue of his claim that his father was the mayor of Israel. There is no record of this, and it is believed that he only said it to idolize his hero Kathryn Kuhlman. People have been seriously injured or even killed at Hinn's healing crusades. He also made a number of false prophecies about the 1990's, none of which came to pass. One thing he does that astonishes me the most is when he visits the grave of Kathryn Kuhlman and claims to get an anointing from the grave. This is called necromancy and the Bible strictly condemns this. Hinn is also very harsh towards his critics. Once he said that he wished he could kill anybody that comes against him. He wanted to find a verse in the Bible that would allow him to do this. However, the Bible condemns murder, and if Benny Hinn is looking in the King James Bible for a verse that justifies murder, he is wasting his time. He wishes God would give him a "Holy Ghost machine gun" so he can blow people away. The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not threaten them or kill them. Godly people who are truly doing the will of God in exposing false teachers don't talk this way about other people. But yet false prophets spirt out the worst of critisms for people who put them down. It amazes me that Benny Hinn has as many followers as he does. He must have thousands upon thousands of followers. I would recommend that any follower of Benny Hinn who comes across this book reads it carefully and takes to heart what it says. This book not only condemns Benny Hinn, but it condemns the Word-Faith movement as a whole. I hope people who are in bondage to the Word-Faith movement read this book and other books, such as "The Seduction Of Christianity" by Dave Hunt, "Charismatic Chaos" by John F. MacArthur, among others. We are living in critical days, and the Apostasy is the greatest sign of the End Times. Maybe more prophecy teachers should talk about the Apostasy during their programs. It really is the greatest sign of the times that there is. Me and my parents were recently in bondage to the Word-Faith movement, but we saw the light and feel as though we've been set free from something. We feel as though a burden has been lifted from us.

How do you spell "Deception"?

An invaluable source of witnessing to those who are "Benny" or other "Hinn"-wise deceived. Buy two copies and then the next time someone asks you, "What do you think of Benny Hinn,?" merely hand them this book.

Put up or shut up

Benny Hinn fans will obviously hate this book. Reviewer Jeff DelaCruz made a few charges against Fischer and Goedelman, none of which he substantiated. And apparently, the 12/11/99 reviewer from California didn't even read the book. On the opposite side, Fischer and Goedelman substantiate and document the quotes they supply in this book -- using Hinn's own programs, books, and tapes. Yes, Hinn did say "There's nine of them" in the Trinity. Yes, Hinn did threaten the well-being of his critics, as if "God" was his leg-breaking thug. Yes, Hinn did claim to feel the "anointing" from the tombs of two of his icons. Yes, Hinn did say that the parted Red Sea really froze, and that the Egyptians were crushed by the falling ice. Yes, Hinn did say that the NT does not record the name of either of the two disciples who were on the road to Emmaus because God dishonored them for not asking Jesus who He was. Yes, Hinn did threaten a particular critic's little children with disasterous suffering. Yes, Hinn did prophesy that the homosexual community in America would perish by fire out of heaven in 1994 or 1995, no later than that. Yes, Hinn did prophesy that a great earthquake would destroy much of the east coast during the 1990s. Yes, Hinn did prophesy that Fidel Castro would die during the 1990s. Yes, Hinn did speak for the Holy Spirit and say that Eve was originally created to give birth out of her side, but sin transformed her anatomy. Yes, Hinn did tell his followers that, "You are God. Ye are gods." Yes, Hinn did teach that Jesus gave up his divinity at some point. Yes, Hinn did say that Jesus went to hell to suffer for our atonement. If you believe that such teachings, revelations, and prophecies are the "work of the Lord," then it is the rest of us who should grind our teeth. I haven't even touched the tip of the iceberg. Nevertheless, the authors of this book have. You will be frightfully amazed.When DelaCruz writes a book demonstrating that Fischer and Goedelman took every Hinn quote out of context -- misrepresenting what Hinn really teaches -- I'll buy it, read it, and review it too. Problem is, DelaCruz can't prove his false argument. He only wishes it so. Just think for a moment: Fischer and Goedelman claim to have written this book merely to sound the alarm about an unhealthy ministry that teaches unhealthy doctrine. Why O Why would they waste their time twisting gazillions of quotes out of context in order to falsely make Hinn seemingly communicate the heretical opposite of what he "really" teaches? Don't you think the authors realize that Hinn has such loyal followers? Knowing this high degree of loyalty, why would the authors document the sources of the quotes if it is so easy to demonstrate their allegedly excessive misrepresentations? Furthermore, if Hinn "really" teaches sound doctrine rather than the off-the-cuff "Revelation Knowledge," then you would need to say that Fischer