BENNY HINN renounced Word-Faith theology on the 700 Club with Pat Robertson in an historic interview, circa 1993, and some time later on James Robison’s program, “Life Today”. He refuted several Word of Faith doctrines such as hyper-confession (and denying reality). Yet true to form, he continued teaching and propagating it and did not offer any alternative correct doctrine of divine healing to his followers. For example, he continued to promote Word of Faith teaching, i.e. that a sick person must always “claim” or speak his healing for healings to occur.
True faith admits its problem-which is anathema in the Word/Faith camp. No one who was blind came to Jesus and said, “I’m healed! I’m healed! I can see!” Not until Jesus touched them or spoke the rhema word was it so. They did not first confess Him as the healer and then were healed. Least of all, Jesus did not ask for money from those who were watching.
Also of significance, when a spiritual Leader comes out of a cultic system, if he is sincere as a Leader, he also desperately wants to save others from burning or dying in the fire. Again, he never did this, even as he regularly has Word-Faith teachers of all kinds on his TV show. This is very telling.
He promised he was going to begin a system of verification of miracles in 1993. This too never happened. According to Anthony Ole there have been many false claims on the air. Kathryn Kuhlman—whom he constantly refers to, as if he had ever known her personally— never allowed people up on the stage unless they were definitely healed, in order to give testimony and give glory to God. Unlike her — Hinn has in place an arbitrary method of selection— so that people with all kinds of claims are allowed up on the stage without any solid proof, let alone quasi-medical testing, thus bringing disrepute on the name of God.
He continues to show testimonials of people claiming healing on his TV show, This Is Your Day, without any medical verification—another thing Kathryn would never allow nor do.
The boy, William, whom he claimed was healed of an eye condition at a 2001 crusade, is a case in point. https://youtu.be/m7fvdcRt4wI?t=244 William is now 26 and he is still legally blind. Benny Hinn has never published a book of testimonials consisting of medically-verified cases of people healed in his crusades. Isn’t that odd, after 40 years of healing crusades?
Also, in the 700 Club interview circa 1993, we have audio confirmation of Benny Hinn promising that he was not going to use his coat again because of the danger of it becoming an “idol”. However, sadly, here is evidence that with great fanfare, he is continuing to use his coat, as in this 2010 crusade: https://youtu.be/8kkgccLG1Gg?t=490. More recently in 2017, he was doing services with controversial Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s at his Nigerian glass house, frenetically waving his white coat before thousands of people who were desperately seeking “impartations” of anointing to perform miracles. https://youtu.be/prg0HPVwQ5E?t=452
Regarding the hyper-prosperity teaching, he said in the ’93 interview, “If Jesus would take away from me everything I’ve got, that’s all that’s become important to me. It’s a death.” He announces that he “gave up the Benz and the (Rolex) watch”. This is a half truth. He did part with the Benz and the watch, though technically he did not “give up” anything in terms of material assets. Facts are that he SOLD the Mercedes Benz and the Rolex watch, replacing the Benz with another car — a $65,000 BMW.
In 1993 he cries, “I don’t care if He takes my house away. Just leave a roof over my head.” https://youtu.be/_p2eF_S40d4?t=1004 Yet, for years he lived in the most opulent home of any evangelist or televangelist in America, valued at $12 million. Impact News’ research had uncovered that Hinn was making $500,000 to $1,000,000 a year back in 1997, and, his estimated net worth today is $42 million. Though he recently cried poor to his partners and viewers, citing a $787K lawyers’ bills following his 2010 divorce, stating he had “lost everything”, this is surely another lie to the sheeple.
Given his net worth, can he truly say he has died to his flesh in the area of extreme materialism that he spoke of in 1993? Can he truly say that money isn’t a major, if not prime motivator in his ministry work?
Is Benny Hinn a compulsive liar? If so, is it purely flesh or is he obsessed of a deluding spirit? It is possible that Benny Hinn was wholly honest in at least one purported word from the Lord, e.g. that The Lord said, “you have three years if you don’t repent”. Could it be that any Holy Spirit anointing [that he had in his early days] had totally left him by 1996, due to the fact he did not follow through and keep his promises?
You decide the answer to all these questions, after listening to this 1993 cry of repentance to the nation and world, via the 700 Club television program.