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Shelli · #1 (**permalink**) 11-21-07, 10:24 PM

The false teacher, Benny Hinn, formerly of the Assemblies of God before He was booted, continues to "reach for Jesus" many gullible and illinformed people.

I suggest anyone who is lulled by his theatrics to possibly believe his feelings and ideas should first Google his name to get the real scoop in his idiotic and Godless promotions over the TV. There is some good and fact oriented analysis of his deception.

And, he represents the wholesale deception of his sponsored broadcaster, Trinity Broadcasting Network. They are flakes aplenty.

Shelli.

retroman · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-07, 07:44 PM

I knpow that to be the truth. We have a local weekly news paper that has an online forum and within it a religion forum called "Faith Connection". In it I placed an article by the Christain Courier website exposing John Hagees apostacy teaching of the Jews not being the ones crucifying Jesus and instead that it was the Roman rullers instead. I may have to start another thread concernoing this.

Anyway, yes many of the penecostals in the town where I live are upset about a 20/20 piece on Hinn which shows his elaborate lifestyle and documnets his outlandish "healing" abilities.

VanHoorelbeke · #3 (**permalink**) 11-26-07, 09:47 PM

Benny Hinn has always been a false teacher. One place you will never find him is in a hospital. Hes a fake healer like all the rest. Big money in faith healing in large buildings. As I once heard from a wise brother, you will see wheelchairs and crutches discarded as if people were really healed, but you never see any false teeth or toupees being thrown out. So many people send him money, hes a liar and a fraud. Dan

broSonnie · #4 (**permalink**) 11-27-07, 09:28 PM

My exact thoughts... if these people on TV could really heal... why are they not at the doors of the hospitals and nursing homes as people come in the doors? Duh!

DanVan · #5 (**permalink**) 11-29-07, 10:31 PM

Two books that I would highly recommend exposing the false doctrine of electronic ministers are 1) Christianity in Crisis and 2) Counterfeit Christianity - both written by Hank Hannegraaff. He is a denominational author and head of the Christian Research Institute in California. He exposes the anti-Biblical doctrines and their teachers such as Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Hagen, etc.

broSonnie · #6 (**permalink**) 11-30-07, 07:24 PM

If you read some of Hank's articles in CRI, you will quickly learn he is a false teacher as well as he runs an organization that promotes false teaching. I would not recommend anything written by him. Some of it may in fact be truth, but being a former subscriber of CRI, there is absolutely false information written by him and his associates.

DanVan · #7 (**permalink**) 11-30-07, 08:01 PM

I know Hank promotes false teaching, but his exposes on the faith movement are on the money,and he doesnt promote any false doctrine in them. His institute I do not endorse at all. I go back when Walter Martin was at cri. Thanks Dan

retroman · #8 (**permalink**) 12-07-07, 09:37 PM

Are there any books published by the Gospel Advocate on this subject? Well, maybe I should answer my own question and look it up. You guys have given me something to do with my Friday evening.

retroman · #9 (**permalink**) 12-07-07, 10:08 PM

www.tuckersbooks.com

Cotham/Hartley - Miracles
Cotham/John - Miracles Today
Cotham/Davis - Godhead & Miracles Today

retroman · #10 (**permalink**) 12-07-07, 10:43 PM

http://www.christiancourier.com/arti...ve_in_miracles

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Why I Don’t Believe in Miracles
August 7, 2000
by Wayne Jackson

This article is a response to professor Philip Hefner’s Newsweek article repudiating miracles.

The affirmation cited above reflects the title of a recent article that appeared in Newsweek magazine (5/1/00, p. 61). It was authored by Philip Hefner, a professor of systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.

Hefner’s essay is mostly about his objections to “miracles” today, based upon his observations of the regularity of nature, his association with men of science, and his disdain for those TV evangelists who ever are claiming that God is working miracles through them.

But he “throws the baby out with the bath water,” rejecting the possibility of miracles under any circumstance. There is not one iota of evidence in the article to indicate that Hefner considered the miracles of the Bible as authentic, in contrast to those feigned by “healers” today.

In fact, the professor has been well-documented in other publications as rejecting what he calls the “miracle stories” of the Scriptures. A part of his problem is the affliction which may be characterized as “retrogressive theology,” that is, the projection of a present circumstance back into the context of biblical history.

I do not believe that God is working miracles today either. But I do not reject such on the ground that God is powerless to perform them; he can do anything he wills to do, consistent with his character and his eternal purpose.

I do not disbelieve in miracles because the forces of nature are inalterably fixed, and thus cannot be manipulated by the very One who initiated them. God is in control of his own creation, and should he so choose, he could suspend nature’s laws for the implementation of his plan. He certainly has done so at different times in the course of world history.

In the Old Testament era God parted the Red Sea and fed Israel with manna for forty years. In the New Testament age, the miracles of Jesus and his apostles were prominent features in first-century Mediterranean society.

God can even orchestrate the normal regularities of natural law through the process commonly called “providence,” in order to expedite the divine plan.

I do not reject “modern miracles” because I view God as uncaring for the plight of miserable humanity. No, none of these rationales is a valid measure of current so-called “supernatural” phenomena.

Rather, I repudiate “modern-day miracles” because belief in such runs counter to the explicit and implicit evidence of written revelation. Consider the following:

1. The Scriptures plainly indicate that the purpose of first-century miracles was to authenticate the process of divine revelation, preliminary to the completion of that body of literature known as the New Testament (Mk. 16:17-20; Heb. 2:1-4). That being the case, these “signs” are not needed today.
2. Nothing in today’s world is analogous to the supernatural events that adorn the pages of the New Testament. There is no walking on water (Jn. 6:19), no restoration of an amputated ear (Lk. 22:51), no resurrections from the dead (Jn. 11:43-44) – nothing remotely resembling biblical miracles is observed today. True miracles are self-verifying events. They are so dramatic as to be undeniable (cf. Jn. 11:47; Acts 4:16).
3. The means for the reception of supernatural powers, at least as depicted in the New Testament, are unavailable in this age. There is no outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as such occurred on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). There are no living apostles to “lay hands” on men and empower them with the ability to speak foreign languages supernaturally, as in the case of those baptized believers in Ephesus (Acts 19:6), or to do other signs (e.g., the healing of infirm bodies – Acts 3:7).
4. Inspired testimony explicitly affirms that the day of the miraculous was temporary, accommodating the completion of the canon of sacred Scripture (1 Cor. 13:8ff; Eph. 4:8ff), and thus soon to “cease.”

A careful distinction, therefore, must be made between the rejection of the phoniness of today’s “miracles,” parading themselves under the banner of “Pentecostalism,” and the authentic signs of the first century, as such were performed by Christ and his commissioned ambassadors.

To fail to draw the sharp line between these two sets of circumstances, is to do a grave injustice to those we are attempting to influence with the gospel.

For more information, see our essay “Miracles”, in our “Archives”.

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Originally Posted by Webshepherd

If you read some of Hank's articles in CRI, you will quickly learn he is a false teacher as well as he runs an organization that promotes false teaching. I would not recommend anything written by him. Some of it may in fact be truth, but being a former subscriber of CRI, there is absolutely false information written by him and his associates.

broSonnie · #11 (**permalink**) 12-08-07, 01:10 AM

Where do I know that name Wayne Jackson from...

That's a good article.

I believe The Spiritual Sword may have some back issues on miracles. The Gospel Journal may also have something. As well as Apologetics Press and Old Paths.

D. White · #12 (**permalink**) 03-24-08, 11:26 AM

Try Christian Courier... http://www.christiancourier.com/

...also, when I want a good laugh, I watch a clip of Benny having people come upon stage and he is just swatting them with his coat and they fall over.