DELIVERED FROM BENNY HINN
AN ACTUAL MIRACLE!
by Daniel Plunkett
Benny Hinn slaying a victim
Fans of faith healing evangelist Benny Hinn claim to have seen all kinds of miracles; the miraculous remission of cluster headaches, lower back pain, depression, and even the lengthening of half-inch shorter legs. Benny Hinn allegedly operates in the same healing gifts as Jesus and the Apostles, so none of this should come as a huge surprise. What is surprising - at least to me, is the noticeable absence of miracles that actually resemble those recorded in scripture. There is a very good reason for that, and that reason is that Benny Hinn is a fraud, false teacher, and charlatan.
I'm not going to spend time here documenting the fact that Hinn is a fraud. All of that information is out there in the public record. Even a lot of charismatics will admit that Hinn is a high profile con man. Besides his faux healings, (which generally only work on conditions susceptible to suggestion and / or hypnosis) there is his unbiblical prosperity gospel, which no serious student of scripture can ever find credible. In a 2016 video on YouTube entitled, Your Financial Miracle Is At The Door, he tells his faithful that the money they need is already there. It's waiting to be claimed in the name of Jesus, but there's a little ritual one must perform in order to take hold of the cash. And of course, that ritual would be to send a seed gift of money to him, a pretty good amount of it. If you're looking to live in abundance, you need to send $1000. If you're merely looking for a new season, that'll just be $120. And the truly miraculous, transcend-your senses fact is that people buy it - literally. What I can't buy is how the man sleeps at night.
But I digress. What I'd like to talk about is a confirmed report of an actual bona fide miracle; the deliverance of Benny's nephew, Costi Hinn from this cesspool of deceit, fraud and lavish living at the expense of the gullible. Yes, Costi Hinn was a part of his uncle's con game for years until he actually put his faith in Christ and came out of that mess to proclaim the real gospel!
I'm not going to rehash Costis's entire story as it's already all over the internet, but I'd just like to bring attention to it, because if any member of the Benny Hinn circus can come to the truth, there's hope for anyone.
Prior to his college years, Costi worked as a catcher for his uncle, catching those who had been slain in the spirit (read that as succumbed to hypnosis) lest they become injured crashing to the floor. He recounts the lavish lifestyle he enjoyed, sleeping in $25,000 per night hotels in Dubai as well as other luxurious stops around the world. No expensive was too high, no accomodations too lavish.
As time went on, Costi recounts becoming dismayed at the fact that he didn't speak in tongues. The people surrounding him made him feel as thought there was something wrong with his faith if he couldn't speak in tongues. But praise God, he soon met the woman who would become his wife, and God used her to turn his life completely around by simply pointing out in scripture where Paul wrote, do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak in tongues? That simple verse led him to rethink everything he had been told about the Christian life. And one by one, the idols began to fall harder and faster than the faithful victims of his uncle's magic powers. His eyes were opened to the fact that being a Christian actually had nothing to do with being guaranteed health, wealth and material happiness; it was about the gospel, something you'll never hear an accurate version of from Benny Hinn.
Soon, Costi stepped into his own ministry, where one of his first assignments was to preach on the passage in John where Jesus healed the man at the Pool of Siloam. This further opened his eyes to the fact that Jesus healed actual crippling ailments in an instant, and the results were visible and verifiable. Jesus did not need for that man to have any faith, either. The man didn't even know who Jesus was! And so more and more elements of truth became crystal clear to Costi. Jesus went to where the sick were. He didn't need to have two hours of repetitive songs and testimonies to create an "atmosphere for faith."
And this, my friends is an actual miracle. A lost and regenerate soul who was being groomed to fleece the flock in the same way as his uncle Benny, was truly born again, repented of his chicanery and is now growing in his own desire to spread the real gospel to a lost and dying world. Costi claims to have attempted reaching out to Uncle Benny. As of this writing, Benny has not responded. Why am I not surprised?
For a more detailed discussion on the errors of the Health and Wealth gospel and more, click below:
Costi Hinn
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