These are mine, what are other possible ones do you think of?
1. Jesus often said "Your faith has healed you":
You are responsible for believing or doubting. God sees through the hearts of all men...some people don't want God but want His healing...if Benny Hinn prayed for you and you never got your healing, don't blame him, first find out why that happened!
2.We should not live in sin and still expect healing:The sickness will return if you don't live for Jesus.Satan has no mercy!
Jesus said "When an evil spirit is cast out of a person, it goes to the dry place and if does not find a dwelling place, it goes back to its original place(person) and when it finds that there is no God in the person,it calls 7 stronger demons to stay in person:
Matthew 12:45 "Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation."
2006-09-14 19:21:28 · 12 answers · asked by Hope Dollar 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I totally agree with your reason #2. We forget that God is holy and will not reward wickedness. Not sure about Benny Hinn. All I know is God is sovereign and only He knows who will get healed and who won't. All we can do is live holy and repentant lives before our Creator and let Him take care of everything. Matthew 5:45 says He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. But I do believe most illness is a result of sin--whether it be unhealthy living (not taking care of the temple of the Holy Spirit) or rejecting/denying His Word.
2006-09-14 20:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The CBC tried to interview Hinn, but his body guards stopped them. He is one of the worst. He owns a huge mansion overlooking the Pacific. His ushers will not let genuine wheelchair people or seriously ill people near the front. The ones that pretend to be healed are plants. A former staff member said they considered they had a good service, not by the healings, but by the money taken in. The Bible warns that in the final days there will be many false prophets, and when they are called before God , he will tell them " Depart from me, I've never known you. Trust your own faith in God and he will care for you. God Bless you.
2006-09-14 20:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The expectation that you'll get better is a powerful thing. The placebo effect is well documented in medical science; if you expect a particular treatment (such as someone praying for you) to help you, it may do some good -- but this effect is probably not enough for a full or permanent cure. Many conditions get better or worse on their own, without direct treatment of their causes, and if a faith healer has a story for each possibility, s/he can maintain credibility among believers.
Other examples of the placebo effect include control groups in clinical trials (where some people get better despite not receiving the actual drug), and homeopatic medicines that are diluted to such an extent that NOT ONE MOLECULE of the active ingredient is likely to be in your dose. (If the water "remembers" its contact with the substance, why doesn't our drinking water remember the urine it was once part of, or the feces it was once in contact with?)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
If an adult friend honestly believed in a literal Santa Claus, you'd think your friend was deluded. Yet billions of people--including the author who mentions "God", "Jesus", and "Satan" as actual beings--believe in supernatural beings for which there's no more evidence than for the Santa mythos, other than the power people bring THROUGH THEIR OWN BELIEF.
Fellowship and community are real -- with or without gods and demons. The basic moral codes such as being truthful, not murdering each other, etc. are simply what we rationally need to live together in a society.
The "God" belief systems have an excuse for every circumstance. (You might ask your friend how Santa Claus gets into apartments without fireplaces; your friend might say he creates them by magic... only, conveniently, nobody ever sees it happen.) This same "slipperiness" makes religious systems USELESS for making actual predictions about the world. (How many religious end-of-the-world-predictions have come with great fanfare, and faded into unfulfilled obscurity?)
We humans are pattern-seeking and answer-seeking beings, and RELIGIOUS IDEAS WERE TOOLS, providing comfort and apparent answers to life's uncertainties (will the daylight return after the winter? will the crops grow well? will we be happy and healthy?). In recent centuries we've gotten much better at answering as well as asking questions. WE HAVE BETTER TOOLS NOW. It is science -- freely asking questions and testing FALSIFIABLE hypotheses about how things work -- that got people to the moon, eradicated smallpox in the wild, and in general dramatically increased our quality and quantity of life; and that holds the real promise of creating a "heaven on earth".
2006-09-14 20:10:19 · answer #3 · answered by Consider This... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simplest answer is the right one. Benny Hinn is basically a shyster looking to bilk gullible suckers out of their money. Believing Benny Hinn will heal you of anything by touching you is like believing a rock in your driveway will keep tigers away. The only thing Benny Hinn will relieve you of is excessive swelling in your wallet.
2006-09-14 19:45:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is just my opnion...
But Benny isn't doing anything for God but for himself. God had given all mankind the proper ways He expects all humans to live - its called The Torah. And Benny ignores God's holy word of Torah. So when he is up on stage "healing" people - its just that - staged.
Chrstians around the world are lied to by the likes of Benny Hinn and others like him. They do not teach scripture properly and that leaves Chrstians scratching their heads because they don't know what to do. I don't blame Christians since they are lied to, but I do blame the pastors, preachers, scholars, the Church itself for twisting God's word and leading Christian people into darkness rather than light.
By abolishing God's holy Torah, Benny Hinn and others like him do not serve the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob - but some 'other' god like the almighty Dollar. By turning away from God, His Torah and teaching others to do like wise - there will never be any person who would be healed on his stage.
2006-09-14 19:40:35 · answer #5 · answered by Reuben Shlomo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and I am not sure about Benny Hinn. He seems sincere enough in his beliefs, but there is something about him that isn't right. There is something about his spirit that doesn't jibe right.
Maybe it's just me, but do you understand what I 'm saying. Something about him doesn't feel right.
I am trying to be judgemental, but I do not like the vibes he gives off.
I do believe in healings and other "gifts" as described in the holy scriptures though.
2006-09-14 19:27:39 · answer #6 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Is he not the guy who focused on the marathon donations on channel TBN, the guy who speak so much so good about God and Jesus and when you are carried away he would ask you something in return as a seed of faith?
I like his preaching, his manipulations to get us closer to believing in God and Jesus but not the knock out punch in the end. Something so devious in it.
2006-09-14 19:39:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
BENNY HINN AND PEOPLE LIKE HIM ARE LIARS AND CHARLATANS AND FALSE PROPHETS AND WISH THERE WAS A WAY TO GET THEM OFF THE TV AND RADIO AS THEY ARE DUPING THE PUBLIC AND THE UNIFORMED ABOUT THE BIBLE AND JESUS ALL THEY ARE AFTER IS THE MONEY AND YOU CAN TELL THAT EASILY BY THE TALK AND THE WAY THEY LIVE A TRUE PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL DOES NOT LIVE IN SUCH WEALTH
2006-09-14 19:27:07 · answer #8 · answered by jk poet 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
WOW! 13 solutions already and not one in each of them could place any faith in this television character. what's this worldwide coming to whilst human beings won't place faith in faith healers? Oh, ye realists and cynics.. maybe this is the tone of the questioner that motives doubt. they're good actors and positioned on an rather nicely produced drama. equivalent to Queen for an afternoon, if any of you save in mind that.
2016-12-18 10:33:28 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Benny Hinn is a fraud, and they were never "healed."
2006-09-14 19:38:05 · answer #10 · answered by . 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋