Benny Hinn, the infamous purveyor of flawed theology, has the audacity to suggest there are nine persons in the Trinity, that Adam could fly, and flip-flops on word-faith teachings. This dangerous deceiver, this fraud, this charlatan, has lined his pockets for five decades at the expense of countless souls. He has twisted and manipulated biblical teachings to extract money from his followers, and now, after FIFTY YEARS OF HERESY, he offers a flimsy apology, claiming he “was not wise?” Unbelievable!
After 50 years of ministry, do we get this as an apology for egregious heresy?
Benny Hinn, the evangelist best-known for his televised miracle healings, is doing damage control after a 4-hour expose on his ministry was released by popular theologian Mike Winger on his YouTube channel.
Controversial televangelist Benny Hinn said his two “biggest regrets” in his decades-long ministry include promoting prophecies he now admits “were not accurate or from the Lord” and pushing “prosperity theology.”
“The two things I regret most in ministry: I was not too wise a number of times with prophecy,” the 71-year-old charismatic preacher told Stephen Strang, host of The Strang Report, in a recent interview.
“I had guests come to the crusades that I think brought harm to not only people’s lives but also to my reputation because their prophecies were not really prophecy. They went outside the borders of redemption.”
“And then there were times when I thought God had showed me something that He wasn’t showing me. And I spoke it out,” Hinn said. “But in 1 Corinthians 13, we clearly see that we all prophesy in part. That means we don’t see the full picture. And sadly — and I wish I could go back and fix it — but sadly, there were some prophecies I gave that were not accurate or from the Lord.”
“But who’s perfect?” he added.
“And for that, of course, I ask people to forgive me,” Hinn said. “I’m just human and made mistakes like that. And I’ll probably make them again, I suppose, down the road, because I’m not perfect.”
On December 7, 1974, four days after his 22nd birthday, Benny Hinn first stood behind a pulpit to preach the Gospel—his life-long stuttering problem suddenly healed!
Toufik Benedictus “Benny” Hinn (born 3 December 1952) is an Israeli-born American-Canadian televangelist, best known for his regular “Miracle Crusades”—revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your Day.
In 1972, he became a born-again Christian. Hinn has written that on 21 December 1973, he traveled by charter bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to attend a “miracle service” conducted by evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman. Although he never met her personally, he often attended her “healing services” and has often cited her as an influence in his life. In 1974 he was invited to speak about his spiritual experience at Trinity Pentecostal Church in Oshawa and claimed to have been cured of his stuttering.
In March 1993 Inside Edition reported on Hinn’s $685,000 Orlando home and Mercedes-Benz, despite Hinn having previously claimed a “modest lifestyle”. An employee of Inside Edition also faked a healing from cerebral palsy which was shown on Hinn’s regular broadcast.
A controversial aspect of Hinn’s ministry is his teaching on, and demonstration of, a phenomenon he dubs “The Anointing”—the power purportedly given by God and transmitted through Hinn to carry out supernatural acts. At his Miracle Crusades, he has allegedly healed attendees of blindness, deafness, cancer, AIDS, and severe physical injuries. However, investigative reports by the Los Angeles Times, NBC’s Dateline, the CBC’s The Fifth Estate, and the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes have called these claims into question.
Hinn has also caused controversy for theological remarks and claims he has made during TV appearances. In 1999, Hinn appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, claiming that God had given him a vision predicting the resurrection of thousands of dead people after watching the network—laying out a scenario of people placing their dead loved ones’ hands on TV screens tuned into the station—and suggesting that TBN would be “an extension of Heaven to Earth.”
Benny Hinn publicly declared Holyfield healed. After re-examining the cardiology, Holyfield discovered that he had never had a heart condition, as he had previously been misdiagnosed.
In 1994, boxing champion Evander Holyfield stood in front of a crowd who had gathered to witness the miracles of televangelist Benny Hinn. Before Hinn and the crowd, Holyfield begged for God’s healing. He had just been diagnosed with a condition in which the left ventricle of his heart could not work properly and so his blood struggled to pump.
A wave of Hinn’s hand did what countless heavyweights had been unable to do and knocked Holyfield to the ground. Holyfield reported a warm feeling flood his chest as he collapsed. He heard Hinn turn to the cheering crowd: “The lord is telling me now: he is repairing Holyfield’s heart completely.”
When Holyfield returned to the doctors, his heart was indeed pumping once more. Although doctors reported that he’d been misdiagnosed, Holyfield credited no one but Benny Hinn for his return to the ring.Holyfield was so thrilled that he even agreed to write Hinn a check for $265,000, needed, as Hinn told him, to “underwrite the costs of the crusade.”
“This tool we must have for declaring the Gospel to the nations in this last hour, and the miracle the Lord has provided Dove One, an aircraft that became available just as the door of opportunity began to close on aircrafts the ministry had previously been utilizing.”
Hinn takes money from thousands of desperate souls seeking cures to illnesses such as terminal diseases or “homosexuality.” Those who are lucky enough to get on stage are yelled at through a microphone and made to collapse under the pretense that God’s great will is channeled through scumbags standing on a stage and shot out in jolts of energy-bolt-cures which the victim takes by falling down on the ground due to the extreme impact of gullibility and pure fantasy. His weapons of choice are hand gestures and smacking victims in the face with a jacket. Sometimes his amazing healing powers are so strong he can even cure dozens of people of their money in large groups. Many of his victims lose not only their hard-earned cash but also their lives when their cancer metastasizes despite Hinn’s expensive miracle cures.
Hinn is known to stay in $10,000 a night hotels. Local staff working backstage for Hinn are instructed not to make eye contact or otherwise approach him as this might “take him out of the moment.” Hinn travels modestly in a lavish private jet plane worth just $36,000,000 up-front, with maintenance costs of $600,000 annually. Hinn lives in a humble mansion worth only several million dollars in a select rich area.
In 1983 Hinn founded Orlando Christian Center and began to perform miracles and conduct healing services, claiming that God was using him as a conduit for these supernatural deeds. Soon his “Miracle Crusades” were being held around the world and, by 1989, were being televised across America.
Critiques of Benny Hinn can span a multitude of areas—his Word-Faith theology, his “little god” theology, his claim that each person of the Trinity is actually his own trinity, his outright lies about his accomplishments, and much more besides. But for our purposes, we will recognize him as the world’s most recognized faith healer.
Hinn teaches that God intends for everyone to be healed of all of their diseases. If people simply have the faith to believe they can be healed, God will heal them through the agency of a healer like himself.
Hinn’s crusades are carefully constructed to lead and manipulate those in attendance, with singing and repetitive music that build a particular atmosphere and sense of anticipation.These crusades crescendo in a time where he announces that God has begun to heal people and he then invites those people to come to the stage to tell what God has done, a technique that was mastered by Kathryn Kuhlman and has since become a staple of faith healing. Hinn claims that God is working powerfully through him to heal others and begins to list those miracles, usually starting with ones that are invisible and unverifiable at the moment—diabetes, depression, and the like. As the healings begin, many people come forward, hoping for their own miracle. Generally, though, only people who claim to have already been healed are showcased on the stage where Benny speaks to them and then often “slays” them in the Spirit.
In this way he has manipulated countless people to give money to his cause, believing that giving money will be key to activating their miracle. Not a single one of Hinn’s miracles has ever been verified, though many have been proven to be temporary or false.
Hank Hanegraaff serves as president and chairman of the board of the North Carolina–based Christian Research Institute. He is also host of the nationally syndicated Bible Answer Man broadcast as well as the Hank Unplugged podcast.
Is the flamboyant faith healer Benny Hinn a heretic? He was so branded by Hank Hanegraaff, the “Bible Answer Man,” in his recent book Christianity in Crisis. Hanegraaff’s Charge resulted in a radical outburst of indignant cries directed not at Hinn but at Hanegraaff.
It seems that the only real and intolerable heresy today is the despicable act of calling someone a heretic. If the one accused is guilty of heresy, he or she will probably elicit more sympathy than his accuser. Anyone who cries “Heretic!” today risks being identified as a native of Salem, Massachusetts.
After Hanegraaff made his charge in print, a couple of things happened. One is that Hinn recanted his own teaching that there are nine persons in the Trinity and apologized to his hearers for that teaching. Such recantations are rare in church history, and it is gratifying that at least in this case on that point Hinn repented of his false teaching.
The second interesting footnote to the Hanegraaff-Hinn saga was the appearance of an editorial by the editor of a leading charismatic magazine in which Hanegraaff was castigated for calling Hinn a heretic. At the 1993 Christian Booksellers Association convention, I was present for and witness to a discussion between Hanegraaff and the magazine editor. I asked the editor a few questions. The first was, “Is there such a thing as heresy?” The editor acknowledged that there was. My second question was, “Is heresy a serious matter?” Again he agreed that it was. My next question was obvious. “Then why are you criticizing Hanegraaff for saying that Hinn was teaching heresy when even Hinn admits it now?”
The editor expressed concern about tolerance, charity, the unity of Christians, and matters of that sort. He expressed a concern about witch hunts in the evangelical church. My sentiments about that are clear. We don’t need to hunt witches in the evangelical world. There is no need to hunt what is not hiding. The “witches” are in plain view, every day on national television, teaching blatant heresy without fear of censure.
We live in a climate where heresy is embraced and proclaimed with the greatest of ease. I can’t think of any of these major heresies that I haven’t heard repeatedly and openly on national tv by so-called “evangelical preachers” such as Hinn, Crouch, and the like. Where our fathers saw these issues as matters of life and death, indeed of eternal life and death, we have so surrendered to relativism and pluralism that we simply don’t care about serious doctrinal error. We prefer peace to truth and accuse the orthodox of being divisive when they call a heretic a heretic. It is the heretic who divides the church and disrupts the unity of the body of Christ.
The Benny Hinn Documentary Archive “They” Don’t Want You to Watch!
The Victims of Benny Hinn: 30 Years of Spiritual Deception.
Arch-heretic Benny Hinn is deleting a raft of videos from his YouTube channel, willingly losing millions of views in the wake of a devastating exposé against him. Two weeks ago, we reported that a ministry associated with Benny Hinn was claiming copyright strikes against Mike Winger, unjustly targeting him on account of a video critical of the famed con man.
After Winger released a four-hour-long blistering critique of Hinn, replete with multiple videos and commentary demonstrating that the money-grubbin’ heretic is a two-fold son of hell (Our description, not his), the video was struck by Jesus Image Ministries, an enterprise led by Jessica and Michael Koulianos, Benny Hinn’s daughter and son-in-law, with the intent to get it demonetized and taken down.
Winger has so far refused on grounds of fair use and YouTube surprisingly has agreed, denying Hinn’s attempts to have it quashed. In the absence of victory, someone on Hinn’s team is scrubbing his videos off the internet, likely ones that have particularly egregious money-grubbing behavior or weird and blasphemous theatrics.
More than two years after Benny Hinn, a 67-year-old Israeli televangelist, said that he had repented and stopped taking money from his followers in exchange for miracles, some people are asking if he has indeed done so. According to the renowned preacher, how his life would end and the legacy he would be remembered for after his death was his priority.
In his repented view, asking people to pay $1,000 for prosperity or miracles amounted to monetization of the gospel, a practice that he said was offensive to God. He lamented how he started well and focused on preaching the word of God whole-heartedly but got distracted along the way.
He declared that the time to let the long-suppressed truth out of the bag was long overdue, and he didnt care how his fellow men of God felt about his disclosures and repentance. He added that ‘prosperity gospel” that has become the order of the day is pure heartless extortion that has left many unsuspecting victims more enpoverished.
An Update on Benny Hinn’s Repentance and a Heart-Felt, Direct, Personal Plea
The latest attempt by Benny Hinn to cleanse his stained reputation came to light in a recent Christianity Today article. Once again, Hinn expressed regret for his past teachings on prosperity theology, a regret he has voiced repeatedly over the years. Each iteration of his so-called repentance has been met with skepticism, and rightly so. Time and again, Hinn has demonstrated a pattern: express remorse, then pivot right back to soliciting funds under the guise of religious necessity.
Benny Hinn’s life and career is fraught with examples that discredit his repeated claims of transformation. Each element paints a picture of a pattern not merely of isolated failures or slip-ups but of a sustained practice of behavior that conflicts deeply with the ethical and doctrinal standards expected in Christian leadership.
The real issue here isn’t just the cyclical nature of Hinn’s apologies but the underlying lack of a transformative, sustained change. True repentance in the Christian context is not a public relations strategy to soften one’s image—it is a radical realignment of one’s heart, mind, and life with the teachings of Scripture. If Hinn were genuinely repentant, the evidence would be clear and unmistakable.It would not be mired in repeated returns to discredited heresies or shadowed by subsequent fundraising campaigns that mimic the very errors regretted.
Test all things, mark and avoid those who twist the Gospel for personal gain. Benny Hinn’s repeated public sin and continued promotion of false teachings are a stark reminder of the need for vigilance in guarding against such things. Genuine repentance would see Hinn stepping down, recognizing his disqualification from leadership, and submitting to the accountability of a biblically sound church. Instead, what we see is a continuation of the same old shenanigans—an elaborate dance around accountability and genuine spiritual leadership.
