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Dear all,
Some of you might have heard of an upcoming conference by Rev.
Benny Hinn. He's gonna be in town to give a Healing Conference.
I have big concerns about this man. I've not been feeling
peaceful about his coming to town since I heard he's coming and
many people are going to attend. I went online to research
about this guy. Please read the following and pray and ask God
to grant us a discernment and for God to reveal to us the truth
and discern lies! Please pray that Jesus be enthroned and His
truth be preserved and not distorted!
Love,Winnie Joy
PS: FOrgive me if I'm wrong, don't just listen to what I say.
Find out and research for the truth and expose lies.
Heresies Of The Word-Faith Movement
http://home.computer.net/~cya/cy00052.html
These examples and many, many others can be demonstrated from
the materials produced by the Word-Faith teachers.
The deification of man. In Faith theology man was created as an
exact duplicate of God, including size and shape.
• Kenneth Hagin asserts, "Man…was created on terms of equality
with God, and he could stand in GodÂ’s presence without any
consciousness of inferiorityÂ…God has made us as much like
Himself as possibleÂ…He made us the same class of being that He
is HimselfÂ…Man lived in the realm of God. He lived on terms
equal with GodÂ…The believer is called ChristÂ…ThatÂ’s who we are;
weÂ’re Christ!" (Kenneth M. Hagin, Zoe: The God-Kind of Life
(Tulsa, OK: Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc., 1989), 35-36, 41.
• Kenneth Copeland declares that "God’s reason for creating
Adam was His desire to reproduce HimselfÂ…He was not a little
like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to
God even." (Kenneth Copeland, Following the Faith of Abraham I
(Fort Worth, TX: Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1989), tape
#01-3001, side 1.
Faith teachers are polytheists.
• TBN president Paul Crouch put it, "I am a little god!
Critics, be gone!" (Paul Crouch, Praise the Lord program on TBN
(July 7, 1986).
• According to Benny Hinn, "Adam was a super being when God
created him. I donÂ’t know whether people know this, but he was
the first Superman that really ever lived. First of all, the
Scriptures declare clearly that he had dominion over the fowls
of the air, the fish of the sea—which menas he used to fly. Of
course, how can he have dominion over the birds and not be able
to do what they do? The word "dominion" in the Hebrew clearly
declares that if you have dominion over a subject, that you do
everything that subject does. In other words, that subject, if
it does someting you cannot do, you donÂ’t have dominion over
it. IÂ’ll prove it further. Adam not only flew, he flew to
space. He was—with one thought he would be on the moon." (Benny
Hinn, Praise the Lord program on TBN (December 26, 1991).
The demotion of God. The Faith movement not only deifies man
but also demotes God to the beck and call of His creation.
Says Benny Hinn, "I could almost visibly see the Lord, and I
could tell you what He was wearing." Jan Crouch, giddy about
HinnÂ’s statement, asks, "Was that the Holy Spirit?"
Acknowledging that he may get in trouble, Hinn resolutely
answers "yes." (Benny Hinn and Jan Crouch, Praise the Lord
program on TBN (October 3, 1991).
• Hinn made the following statement, "Man, I feel revelation
knowledge already coming on me here. Life your hands. Something
new is going to happen here today. I felt it just as I waled
down here. Holy Spirit, take over in the name of JesusÂ…God the
Father, ladies and gentlemen, is a person; and He is a triune
being by Himself separate from the Son and the Holy Ghost. Say,
what did you say? Hear it, hear it, hear it. See, God the
Father is a person, God the Son is aperson, God the Holy Ghost
is a person. But each one of them is a triune being by Himself.
If I can shock you—and maybe I should—there’s nine of them.
Huh, what did you say? Let me explain: God the Father, ladies
and gentlemen, is a person with his own personal spirit, with
his own personal soul, and his own personal spirit-body. You
say, Huh, I never heard that. Well you think youÂ’re in this
church to hear things youÂ’ve heard for the last 50 years?"
(Benny Hinn, Benny Hinn program on TBN (October 3, 1991).
• Two years after his initial "revelation," Hinn once again
voiced virtually the same statement. As he puts it, "God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost—three separate
individuals, one in essence, one in work—and, may I add, each
one of them possess His own spirit-body. You donÂ’t like it?"
(Benny Hinn, Praise the Lord program on TBN (October 23, 1992).
The deification of Satan. Satan is deified as the God this
world and is positioned with so much power that he could manage
to "turn the light off in God."
• Benny Hinn said, "God came from heaven, became a man, made
man into little gods, went back to heaven as a man. He faces
the Father as a man. I face devils as the son of God..Quit your
nonsense! What else are you? If you say, I am, youÂ’re saying
IÂ’m a part of Him, right? Is he God? Are you His offspring? Are
you His children? You canÂ’t be human! You canÂ’t! You canÂ’t! God
didnÂ’t give birth to fleshÂ…You said, "Well, thatÂ’s heresy." No,
thatÂ’s your crazy brain saying that." (Benny Hinn, Our Position
in Christ #2—The Word Made Flesh (Orlando: Orlando Christian
Center, 1991), videotape #255.
The demotion of Christ. The Faith movement compromises the
deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Benny Hinn writes, "And let me add this: Had the Holy Spirit
not been with Jesus, He would have sinned. ThatÂ’s right, it was
the Holy Spirit that was the power that kept Him pure. He was
not only sent from heaven, but He was called the Son of Man—and
as such He was capable of sinningÂ…Without the Holy Ghost, Jesus
would have never have made itÂ…Can you imagine Christ headed for
the grave, knowing He would remain there forever, if the Holy
Ghost would change His mind about raising Him from the dead?"
(Benny Hinn, Good Morning, Holy Spirit (Nashville: Thomas
Nelson, 1990), 135-36.
Atonement Atrocities:
Recreation on the cross. On the cross, Jesus was recreated from
divine to demonic, taking on the very nature of Satan.
• Benny Hinn claimed that the Holy Ghost personally told him:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the serpent is a symbol of Satan. Jesus
Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one
in nature with him. You say, ‘What did you say? What blasphemy
is this?Â’ No, you hear this! He did not take my sin; He became
my sin. Sin is the nature of hell. Sin is what made SatanÂ…It
was sin that made Satan. Jesus said, "IÂ’ll be sin! IÂ’ll go to
the lowest place! IÂ’ll go to the origin of it! I wonÂ’t just
take part in it, IÂ’ll be the totality of it!" When Jesus became
sin, sir, He took it from A to Z and said, "No more!" Think
about this: He became flesh, that flesh might become like Him.
He became death, so dying man can live. He became sin, so
sinners can be righteous in Him. He became one with the nature
of Satan, so all those who had the nature of Satan can partake
of the nature of God." (Benny Hinn, Benny Hinn program on TBN
(December 15, 1990).
Let take a moment to retrace our steps. We began this section
with Jesus hanging on a cross, where, according to Faith
theology, He was recreated from a divine to a demonic being. At
this point the Trinity was destroyed and the deity of Christ
utterly demolished. According to the Faith teachers, the Lord
JesusÂ’ passion on the cross proved insufficient to redeem
humankind, an so He had to be trapped and hauled down to the
very pit of hell by Satan. It is there, while Jesus is tortured
and tormented by a smiling Satan and a host of cackling demons,
that we pick up the story.
JesusÂ’ Rebirth in hell.
• Benny Hinn, too, received some "revelation knowledge" on the
"rebirth" of Christ in hell: "My, you know, whoosh! The Holy
Ghost is just showing me some stuff. IÂ’m getting dizzy! IÂ’m
telling you the truth—it’s, it’s just heavy right now on
meÂ…HeÂ’s [referring to Jesus] in the underworld now. God isnÂ’t
there, the Holy Ghost isnÂ’t there, and the Bible says He was
begotten. Do you know what the word begotten means? It means
reborn. Do you want another shocker? Have you been begotten? So
was He. DonÂ’t let anyone deceive you. Jesus was reborn. You
say, ‘What are you talking about?’…He was reborn. He had to be
rebornÂ…If He was not reborn, I could not be reborn, I would
never be reborn. How can I face Jesus and say, "Jesus, You went
through everything IÂ’ve gone through, except the new birth?"
(Benny Hinn, Our Position ‘In Christ,’ Part 1 (Orlando, FL:
Orlando Christian Center, 1991), videotape #TV-254.
