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Categories: RELIGIONSIs Benny Hinn legitimate?Sincerely,
Convention Cruising
Dear Convention Cruising,
Benny Hinn is one of the more popular “faith healers”, and he is a wicked man. He collects somewhere around $100 million dollars from people every year that believe he heals them. People in their darkest hours of sickness seek hope from any source. Faith healers prey upon this.
The meetings that Benny Hinn holds where people fall over, start randomly speaking gibberish, and supposedly are healed are infamous for being rigged. Journalists have investigated these meetings and found that they are specifically designed to work people into a frenzy. During that frenzy, the evangelists will tell people they are healed, and the adrenaline of the moment gives some the momentary feeling of being healed. There are documented cases of patients going to these meetings and being told that they had been cured of their cancer only to have the doctors diagnose them as terminally ill days later. Other “healed” people are deceivers planted within the audience that pretend to be sick and throw their crutches away to add to the charade.
Those who go to these meetings are vulnerable to false teaching and are consequently deceived. They are seeking a cure, and the false teachers know what to say to raise their hopes (2 Tim 4:3). The faith healers are false teachers, and they will be judged by God for their wicked deceptions (2 Pet 2:1-2). A teacher is more strictly judged (Jas 3:1), and therefore, these preachers, including Benny Hinn, will be held accountable for their lies. It is our duty to try and undo their deception by bringing the truth to those who have been deceived.
