Televangelist Benny Hinn Admits Going Too Far With Prosperity Gospel in Wake of Billy Graham's Death

[DonViejo]

By Leonardo Blair , Christian Post Reporter | Feb 22, 2018 1:00 PM

In the wake of the death of renowned evangelist Billy Graham, controversial faith-healing televangelist Benny Hinn, who has often been criticized for his endorsement of the prosperity gospel, said in a stunning confession Wednesday that sometimes he has taken the erroneous gospel too far.

"We get attacked for preaching prosperity, well it's in the Bible, but I think some have gone to the extreme with it sadly, and it's not God's word what is taught and I think I'm as guilty as others. Sometimes you go a little farther than you really need to go and then God brings you back to normality and reality," Hinn, 65, said as he reflected on Graham's death with a ministry colleague in a Facebook Live broadcast.

He admitted that as he has grown older and come to understand the Bible more, he now realizes that some of the things he learned from preachers when he was growing up aren't biblical and the popular interpretation of the prosperity gospel — the teaching that believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the "sowing of seeds" through the faithful payments of tithes and offerings — is one of those things.

"The more you know the Bible the more you become biblically based and more balanced in your opinions and your thoughts because we are influenced. When I was younger I was influenced by the preachers who taught whatever they taught. But as I've lived longer I'm thinking wait a minute, you know this doesn't fit totally with the Bible and it doesn't fit with the reality. So what is prosperity? No lack. I've said this before," Hinn said.

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[exboyfil]

1. Still I bet he doesn't give the money back

he took from people who could ill afford to give it up to fund his lifestyle.

[njhoneybadger]

2. Maybe he went to far when he had Paula Whites ankles up around her ears

[MineralMan]

3. Fleecing the Sheep, as it were...

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. they decide what they want, then create a lie to support it and claim it is in the bible

What a racket religion is!

[packman]

5. Looking into my krystal ball ---

I see a Benny Hinn 2.1 - the NONProsperity Preacher. He's now telling his faithful followers that it is best they rid themselves of all trappings of prosperity and to lead lives of want and austerity. What to do with all that prosperity that has enslaved them for all those years - send it to him so he can take on the burdens of their sins.

Once a con man, always a con man.

[Permanut]

6. Okay, so let's get "Biblically based" here..

Benny Hinn's net worth: $42 million.

Matthew 19:21:

"If you want to be perfect," Jesus said to him, "go, sell your belongings and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

Seems pretty obvious what he should do next.

[Igel]

10. Yeah, but even that one verse is cherry picking.

Well, citing any one verse almost certainly devolves to that, unless it's faithful to the context.

The KJV did everybody a large disservice in its formatting, not in its translation, when it made every verse its own paragraph.

[TwistOneUp]

7. No matter what your "values" are...

You can find biblical passages to defend them.

I would post some antipodal examples (e.g., wealth, asceticism, etc.) along with biblical quotes to back up those positions, but the book is both ambiguous and contradictory. For example, it espouses peace while threatening war. I'm not going to waste my time.

I encapsulate my feelings about religion by remembering the old bromide about a young child that points to the bible and asks his grandfather, "what does all this really mean?" And his grandfather replies, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The rest is conjecture."

There ya go.

[Doc_Technical]

8. I am convinced

that these televangelists are atheists
who are playing the long con.

[Angry Dragon]

9. just a fraud