Question: Many Christians have accepted Jesus as their Savior through Benny Hinn?

I don't know; God spoke through a donkey to Balaam - go figure

 

Not much has changed, has it....He is still using mules.

Cheers,

Jim

 

As a easy believe person(123 pray with me now your saved person) I find all the replies to this question very interesting. I thought the fact that gekko stated that what I do is a great heresy also very interesting. gekko says a person cannot be saved with just a few words. Confession and acceptance cannot be made in a few words another words. Now this becomes very interesting in light of what the Scriptures say, in John 6:37 here is that Scripture.

37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

According to the above Scripture if the person comes to the Lord Jesus Christ that person will be drawn by the father. This Scripture alsor states that anyone who comes will not be cast out,(could this possibly mean that all that come will be accepted?????????). notice also that no certain location or condition or personality is required to accompany the person's comeing. I have seen people come to the Lord while duck hunting, walking down the street, driving a automobile, standing in a restroom, at a shopping market buying groceries and many other places too numerous to mention.

 

the notion of "if you ask Jesus into your heart he will definately come in"

is not biblical. if you think it is. please support it mima.
its not in history until 50 years ago or so.

the words will not save you.

repent and believe. continually.

 

"All that the Father giveth me........" God has taken the first step...."He giveth"....."I will in no wise cast out..." Certainly, ALL the elect will be saved.

In scripture we see the "human terms". Also in scripture we see the divine picture....God.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Please consider Romans10:13-acts 2:21-and JOEL 2:32 where it says in all three scriptures," whosoever shall call in the name of the Lord shall be saved". Is this not a declareive statement? Must something be added to this statement, in order for you and I to literally understand it?

I have no objections to your method of salvation. I would however ask you a question? How much resistance, ridicule, accused of teaching heresy, do you receive from believing in your method?

 

True, Matt, but this story does not teach us to look to donkeys for messages from God. :smilewinkgrin: Also, this was an extraordinary event, never repeated in scripture again as far as I know.

The word of God tells us over and over and over to evaluate teachings, to watch out for false teachers, to hold to sound doctrine, to reject bad doctrine, to reject another gospel, etc., and in evaluating the ministry and teachings of Benny Hinn as a whole, he comes out as a false prophet and false teacher. Not to mention probably a fraud in healing since not a single one of his healings has been medically verified. He claimed one time he went into a hospital and all the people were healed. Well, no verification of this was found.

If people get saved when he is preaching, it is because he is giving the gospel at that moment, and God uses it. Some false teachers do give the gospel sometimes. It's just that they don't give it often enough, they cover it up with other stuff, or add a lot of strange and heretical teachings to it.

I would never tell anyone to listen to Hinn.

 

I don't think anyone is saying the words save. It is faith that saves, by grace, with or without words. Saying these words accompanied by faith does save someone because if they have the faith, they are saved.

I also disagree with "repent and believe continually." You and I have been through the "repent" part before - I believe that repenting is part of trusting in Christ, because you can't trust in Him without turning away from whatever you were believing or doing before.

The "continually" must mean you believe that one can lose their salvation. I realize some Christians hold to this, but it is an issue that Christians disagree on.

 

You and I have been through the "repent" part before - I believe that repenting is part of trusting in Christ, because you can't trust in Him without turning away from whatever you were believing or doing before.

This statement concerning repentance and what it is is as good as I have ever read. This statement actually touches on what true definition of repentance would be. True repentance means changing your opinion about the Lord Jesus Christ . All people are borned lost and in order to become saved they must "repent" changed their views concerning the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

OH! oh!!! ooh! please no! the agony! i can't stand all this water!
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sorry to say. that is THE most watered down definition of true repentance i have EVER heard/seen.

changing your opinion about christ... bah. like our opinion matters.

true repentance is a turnaround from wide gate/path to the narrow gate/path.

from unrighteousness to righteousness.

 

To accept Jesus as a personal Savior through Benny's false teachings is to ask yourself questions. Is that another Gospel? When they accepted Jesus as their personal Savior, is that another Jesus?

 

I think you make a good point. :thumbs:

 

from the sites I posted yeaterday, some of the people he told were healed of cancer died within a month or two of him healing them.

Repentence means a turning away from, to turn away from sin. As in to turn your back on something and leave it behind.

 

Several years ago Hinn the "prophet" said Jesus was going to appear in Niarobi. He didn't. Does God give false information? Nope, but false "prophets" do.

 

Perhaps we should go OT on Hinn and re-institute stoning to death for false prophecies - that should separate the men from the boys.

I'd love to go to a Hinn performance: I'd go up on stage and say I was deaf. When Benny put his hands on my head and prayed for healing, I'd scream "My eyes! I can't see!". Then, when he prayed again, I'd collapse on the ground shouting "My legs! I can't feel my legs!" Then I'd get up and run off stage as fast as I could before Benny's minders had the chance to give me something I'd really need healing for...

 

You wouldn't be able to do this because they choose who gets to go up on stage. This is one reason it's fraudulent. They never choose, for example, someone who has been blinded or crippled from birth, or a quadriplegic from an accident. And if they said the person had this condition, I would want medical verification.