Quick facts on Benny Hinn
 

Hinn promises his readers that they will “discover how to have victory over disease and live a life full of health and happiness” (jacket flap, "Lord, I Need a Miracle"). But he bases this promise on a variety of biblical texts wrenched out of context.

Hinn is fond of citing Isaiah 53:5 (“by his stripes we are healed”) to justify his healing claims. "The longer I study God’s Word, the more convinced I am that a Christian should not be sick” (Miracle, pp. 67, 56, 82, 166). But Isaiah could not have made it more clear that he had spiritual healing in mind. In the very same verse Isaiah wrote, “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities.”

As Hinn puts it, “You will never hear me pray such faith-destroying words as ‘If it be your will, Lord, heal them.’ God intends for you to rise and be healed. Today. Tomorrow. Always!” (Miracle, p. 63). Jesus and the apostles contradict Hinn in the strongest of terms not only in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 6:10), but throughout the New Testament as well (Matt. 26:49; James. 4:15; 1 John 5:14; Rom 1:10; 15:32).

Hinn heaps guilt upon the heads of those who are not healed or who lose their healing. In Miracle, he blames the believer for a lack of faith (pp. 61, 77, 80, 82, 85-86), for “wrong” thinking (pp. 79, 96), or for not consistently following his three principles (pp. 60-62), four laws of healing (pp. 72-73), or seven guidelines (pp. 99-102).

Recently, Hinn has tried to paper over some old errors. Yet, Benny Hinn still fabricates events to demonstrate his alleged supernatural powers from God. One example is his backing off the claim that his father once was the mayor of Jaffa, Israel. His new characterization of his father as having “a prominent position... in the political life of Israel” (p. 74) still remains an overstatement.

Hinn appeals to the likes of Charles Ryrie, Lewis Chafer, John Walvoord, D. L. Moody, R. A. Torrey, and A. J. Gordon to support his teaching on the third person of the Trinity. It is obvious that Hinn is working overtime to make it appear that he is in line with many of the greats in recent church history.

Hinn's teaching is filled with mysticism and emotionalism.

The way Hinn cites church theologians is misleading and wrong. It creates an illusion of credibility, respectability, endorsement, and scholarship. The cults have been doing this for years. Indeed, it is a cultic distinctive to make it appear that there is scholarly support for one’s position when there is no such support.

Hinn teaches a health and wealth message that promotes a "prosperity gospel".

While claiming to be "under the anointing," Hinn has uttered some of the most "off-the-wall" statements imaginable — including the claim that the Holy Spirit revealed to him that women were originally designed to give birth out of their sides.

Hinn also admits to frequenting the graves of both Kathryn Kuhlman and Aimee Semple McPherson to get the "anointing" from their bones.

Whether Hinn is referring to his family history or his rendezvous with the Holy Spirit, fantasy is often passed on as fact. A case in point are the thousands of "documented" healings claimed by Hinn. One of the cases involved a man who was supposedly healed of colon cancer. A medically naive person reading the pathology report may well see the notation "no evidence of malignancy" and be duped into thinking that a bona fide healing had indeed taken place. CRI's medical consultant, Dr. Preston Simpson, however, was not fooled by the report. His investigation revealed that the colon tumor in question was surgically removed rather than miraculously healed.

Hinn attained notoriety by actually knocking people over with his breath.... His theology (including his infamous 'nine-person Trinity' statement, and the claim that Adam could fly) is bizarre.