for example:the benny hinn crusades.
2006-12-31 04:53:33 · 14 answers · asked by invinciblekarthik 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, personally I wouldn't use Benny Hinn as a reference for very much. But that is my personal opinion. Why do you think that it is? The Bible says "if we have the faith of a grain of mustard we can say to the mountain be thou removed and it shall be moved." Maybe it is an issue of faith. Maybe it is just not for us to know the will of God. Why would God allow a child to die of a terrible disease, but allow a killer to live to a ripe old age? Who knows but God. I don't think it is for us to question the will of God, but to accept what it is that God has for us and believe that no matter what happens in this life, we shall live free from all encumberances in the next through our faith in Christ. I have seen people healed from disease and one cousing of mine was even prayed back from death. He had a massive heart attack and collapsed. There was an ambulance there and they said he had died. But the family, ministers, and other believers prayed over him for 30 mins and he awoke. He had to have a quadrupal bipass, but he is alive. I believe in miracles. I just think that it is God who dictates when a miracle is to be performed and not man.
2006-12-31 04:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by Sissy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fakery. Not one single miracle from the start of television healing crusades starting with Oral Roberts in the 40's and 50's have been documented as real. many have been proven to be mistaken, or downright deleberate fakes. Oral Roberts once cast a demon out of a lady and held up a frog as evidence that she was demon possessed. One service to raise the dead, I forget who it was, but it almost started a riot because people saw the suppossed dead person enter a secret passegway to enter the coffin just before being raised from the dead.
I personally know a man who attended a dead raising ceremony and he stuck a pin in the dead person and thus he raised the dead.
Study history, just go back 50 years and you will find many of the well known miracle workers died of what they claimed to heal others of. Kathryn Kulman is one example.
AA. Allen is another. he healed many a alcoholic and said it was from God, but died of alcoholism drunk.
Many miracle workers have lost most of their ministry due to law suits brought by people who were harmed.
Robert Tilton is a fine example of that. He was sued because he sent a letter to a man saying God told him he was healed and he should send some money to the ministry, but the man had died 3 months earlier and the widow sued and won.
I watched Robert Tilton one day as he had a cripple boy who was deaf and dumb and claimed they boy would speak and walk.
The boy stumbled accross the stage with much difficulty and tried to talk, but you could not understand him and when he listened to Robert, he put his ear right up to Robert and Robert shouted. Is this a miracle? I think not. That was in the very early eighties and he later learned to be a little more convincing.
2006-12-31 05:11:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all... it is God that heals, and not any preacher.....God will act independently, and sometimes inspite of any preacher who is there....
since God is soverign, the decisions are up to him. He may repsond to faith or lack of it, He may see unrepetant sin in the person's life... he may see a good person but who is blocked by doubt and unbelief...He may also decide that it is not the right time yet (or place) for that person....the healing may occur at a future time...and in a different place...He may decide not the heal the person for some reason known only to him....
For someone that needs healing, they need to just trust in God for his perfect will to be done, and pray that healing is part of it....then when healing comes, it will have nothing to do with the intervention of man ,or the person's feelings of entitlement....it will be a soverign act of god. Sometimes waiting is a test of faith....and then other people seem to get quickly, without waiting.
2006-12-31 06:01:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The minute you can show someone actually gets healed by supernatural means, apply for a Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Believe me, it NEVER happens. Benny Hinn is a crook.
2006-12-31 04:55:56 · answer #4 · answered by gebobs 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Why doesn't this Benny guy go to a children's hospital or any hospital for that matter and use some of his so called healing power on some of the people there?
He should be ashamed of himself. What a scam artist. They should arrest him for scamming people.
2006-12-31 04:57:51 · answer #5 · answered by Bengal 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
because god wants you to believe in order for you to be healed.some people who are at a healing seminar do not believe therefore they dont get healed.
2006-12-31 05:05:02 · answer #6 · answered by blacklightofwhite 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eldad9 hit the nail on the head! There is no true healing by these fake-healers. Just suggestion and some assorted fellow crooks.
2006-12-31 04:59:02 · answer #7 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people are more susceptible to suggestion than others. And some people may be planted in the audience by the confidence man.
2006-12-31 04:56:36 · answer #8 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
some are planted audience members, the rest are genuinely in need
see also: God never heals the amputees, only a cold and sniffle
2006-12-31 04:59:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A few people died after they were convinced that he healed them. Maybe they are not actors.
2006-12-31 05:00:02 · answer #10 · answered by dirty_white_boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋